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Review: Magic of Motown during a Bristol Hippodrome 8/10

THIS dusk of wall-to-wall Motown song is one for a connoisseurs. The 7 singers and 7 musicians concerned go non-stop, with frequency a oral word to be listened all night, racing by 36 of a best numbers compared with a mythological Motown sound, frequency giving a assembly time to pull exhale between numbers. Certainly a...

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Motown Records Founder Berry Gordy Honored with Philadelphia’s 2013 Marian …

Advertisement Gordy, who is a writer and songwriter, played a vast purpose in a growth of RB music. Gordy constructed and penned a book of Motown, a new jukebox low-pitched about his life story, that non-stop Apr 14 on Broadway. The uncover facilities songs done famous by Smokey Robinson and The Miracles, Diana...

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Motown’s Berry Gordy wins Marian Anderson Award

Berry Gordy, a 83-year-old owner of Motown Records, a Detroit tag that became a hit-making bureau and constructed such stars as Smokey Robinson, Stevie Wonder, Diana Ross, Marvin Gaye, a Temptations, and Michael Jackson, is a target of a 2013 Marian Anderson Award, Mayor Nutter announced Monday. The award, given to...

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‘Motown: The Musical,’ Berry Gordy’s Story

Before we’ve even staid in a seats, we’re being dazzled by a sing-off between a Four Tops and a Temptations. Gladys Knight and a Pips and Marvin Gaye after rip into their dueling versions of a fast classical “I Heard It Through a Grapevine.” (Don’t make me choose, please: we couldn’t live though either.)...

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Motown a Musical’s Morgan James on a Art of Songwriting

Morgan James isn’t used to singing happy songs. In fact, she says that a awaiting of doing so is giving her a complex. But this maestro of Broadway’s Godspell and The Addams Family, now appearing in Motown a Musical, is gonna siphon it adult and sing a few contented tunes during 54 Below for a array of 9:30pm...