Other Mixes By RetroJoe
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1967-68 M*T*WN (Be-ginning of the E-nd)
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| Jr Walker & The All Stars | Hip City (Part 2) (1968 #31) | |
| Four Tops | Bernadette (#4) | |
| Gladys Knight & The Pips | I Heard it Through the Grapevine (#2) | |
| Martha Reeves & The Vandellas | I Promise To Wait My Love (1968 #62) | |
| The Supremes | The Happening (#1) | |
| The Isley Brothers | Just Ain't Enough Love Left | |
| Four Tops | I'll Turn to Stone (#76) | |
| The Marvelettes | Here I Am Baby (1968 #44) | |
| Martha & The Vandellas | Honey Chile (#11) | |
| The Temptations | All I Need (#8) | |
| Diana Ross & The Supremes | Reflections (#2) | |
| Smokey Robinson and the Miracles | Special Occasion (1968 #26) | |
| Gladys Knight & The Pips | Take Me in Your Arms and Love Me (#98) | |
| The Ones | You Haven't Seen My Love (mono) | |
| The Isley Brothers | That's the Way Love Is | |
| The Isley Brothers | Take Me In Your Arms (Rock Me A Little While) (1968) | |
| The Supremes | Love is Here and Now You're Gone (#1) | |
| Four Tops | Yesterday's Dreams (1968 #49) | |
| Barbara McNair | My World is Empty Without You | |
| The Isley Brothers | Behind A Painted Smile (1968) | |
| The Temptations | You're My Everything (#6) | |
| Bren-da Holloway | You've Made Me So Very Happy (promo version) (#39) | |
| Marvin Gaye | Chained (1968 #32) | |
| Diana Ross & The Supremes | In and Out of Love (#9) | |
| Barbara McNair | For Once in My Life | |
Comment:
By 1967, Berry Gordy, who founded the Motown music firm, had bought a dozen or more large homes on West Grand Blvd in Detroit as offices and studios. But things were becoming cramped so, in 1968 he bought the Donovan Bldg in Detroit for their home offices. By 1969, their offices were gradually being moved to Los Angeles and by 1972 all of their operations had moved there. But it's expansion as a money making enterprise started the motown sound down the road to it's demise. The years explored here in my opion show the signs of the decline of a sound that I believe reached it's peak in the 1964-66 period. The pictures are of Barry Gordy on West Grand Blvd in Detroit In front of the building where Motown began and is now the Hitsville Motown Museum and the Donovan Bldg in Detroit being demolished in 2006.
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The music scene was changing so fast that they couldn't keep up. Like shooting stars, they blazed bright trails and burned out quickly. Fine tribute to a tumultuous time and a dazzling musical array.
Heck with his real estate, let's dish about Gordy's love life! Numerous marriages and a long affair with Diana Ross showed he had mucho mojo in the studio and out.
i can never get enough of these, thanks for the mix & the backstory
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