But the common denominator at so many of those rallies was the sound of Motown, the once fledgling and once black-owned record label founded in Detroit 50 years ago today. The campaign’s embrace of ...

And time. Motown may be 50 years old, but it isn't any less relevant with current hitmakers -- from Taylor Swift to Coldplay -- citing the label's signature "sound" as an influence. Would there be a ...

DETROIT, Jan 10 (bdnews24.com/Reuters) - Motown has always been about more than music. As the soul empire turns 50 on Monday, its founders are looking back at its ...

The Motown label that helped make stars of the likes of Stevie Wonder and Marvin Gaye turns fifty this year. Founded in 1959 by songwriter Berry Gordy in the city of Detroit, Motown may even become ...

Black ties and gowns filled a ballroom Saturday in a big-bucks salute to Detroit-style royalty — the King of Motown, the Queen of Soul and the Kid of Rock.Motown Records founder Berry Gordy, along ...

Motown Records honored its 50th anniversary in style Saturday night, as music icons from Stevie Wonder to Berry Gordy showed up to celebrate half a century of chart-topping hits from the Detroit ...

"It was the first, I think, black record company that was able to make the transition ... and was not only for the black music audience but also for a world music audience. I think that's what Motown ...

DETROIT (Reuters) - Motown has always been about more than music. As the soul empire turns 50 on Monday, its founders are looking back at its brand of music dubbed the "Motown sound" that remains ...

In January 1959, at the age of 29, Berry Gordy founded Tamla Records with an $800 loan from his family. Later that year, on Dec. 14, Tamla became Motown Records. Motown Records was first housed at ...

Like the two-sided singles the Motown factory churned out 24 hours a day, seven days a week at Studio A inside the Hitsville, U.S.A., building at 2648 West Grand Boulevard, Motown Records in the 1960s ...

On Jan. 12, 1959, Elvis Presley was in the Army. The Beatles were a little-known group called The Quarrymen casting about for gigs in Liverpool. The nascent rock 'n' roll world was a few weeks away ...

Fifty years later, Motown Records Corp. and its stable of largely African-American artists have become synonymous with the musical, social and cultural fabric of America. The company spawned household ...