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Mary Wells, First Lady of Motown – Legacy.com

Post on Other Sites 5/14/2013 Mary Wells (WikimediaCommons/20th CenturyFox Records) Born 70 years ago this week, Mary Wells helped figure a Motown sound. We remember some of a ways she blazed trails for a other gifted women who came after her. Originally published Jul 2012. Mary Wells was...

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MOTOWN THE MUSICAL Original Broadway Cast Recording to Be Released 6/4

The strange Broadway expel recording of “MOTOWN THE MUSICAL,” a uncover nominated for 4 TONY Awards, is to be expelled Jun 4, 2013, by Motown/Universal Music Enterprises (UMe). Co-produced by multi-GRAMMY Award leader Frank Filipetti and TONY Award hopeful Ethan Popp, a manuscript facilities a magnificently...

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Motown man

Doug Morris, a authority and CEO of Sony Music, has had his hands on copiousness of hits over a years — many recently Justin Timberlake’s “20/20 Experience.” But few, he said, can compare a power of “Motown: The Musical,” a pound Broadway strike he invested $16.5 million in,...

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In a Middle with You: Motown Stars Valisia LeKae and Brandon Victor Dixon

* “You were my destiny,” Diana Ross and Berry Gordy Jr. sing to one another in Motown: The Musical, that non-stop Apr 14 during a Lunt-Fontanne Theatre. The strain is “You’re All we Need to Get By,” and a characters sing it during a start of their years-long vigourous affair. Gordy, a...

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Tammi Terrell, Motown Singer Known For Marvin Gaye Duets, Was A Striking …

It can be strenuous to even try and count a many gifted and charismatic musicians of Motown. But Tammi Terrell, with a voice that interconnected ideally with Marvin Gaye’s and a strikingly pleasing looks of an ingenue, stands out as a solid among a gems. Terrell would have distinguished her 68th birthday Monday. The...