How To Use Motown In A Sentence
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Irresistible, her lone Motown LP, the label cannibalized some of the solo songs and remixed them into duets.
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His sniffy attitude to Motown may be dead wrong but his dissection of the creative and entrepreneurial side of the music industry is unrivalled.
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Taylor's funk-influenced style hearkens back to the days when Motown was pounding out hit after soulful hit, without relying on sentimentalism or retro-chic.
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When all is said and done, they come across as a rock 'n' roll Motown wall of sound.
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Like most of the bands and assorted solo acts gathered at CMJ this week, Q-Tip came to spread the word: that first song was “Fever,” the second single from his album “The Renaissance,” which Universal Motown is scheduled to release next year.
CMJ Music Marathon: Q-Tip Catches the Fever - ArtsBeat Blog - NYTimes.com
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Ashford and Simpson, who married in 1974, were quickly signed to Motown Records and wrote a string of hits for, among others, Diana Ross, Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell — the latter two who dueted on "Ain't No Mountain High Enough," "Ain't Nothing Like the Real Thing," "You're All I Need to Get By" and "Your Precious Love.
Motown Songwriter Nick Ashford Dies at 70
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Motown was particularly popular in the 1960s and 1970s.
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In Moles' homely upstairs cafe area there's a complementary side order of 1950s and 60s dancehall classics with a beady eye on the shimmy and shake favourites of Motown and doo-wop.
Clubs picks of the week
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The Redskins coach was the subject of scorn and ridicule before his team lost to the Lions, but the setback in Motown only racheted up the heat.
NFL Replay: Declining skills at the root of T.O.'s slow start
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The neglected poverty-stricken landscape of Motown is captured throughout the film by the trailer homes, abandoned buildings and jalopies in shades of muted gray, browns, greens and rust.
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This weekend they're in Motown to see them play the Detroit Tigers at Comerica Park.
Baseball Fanatics
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The high-octane production recreates the energy, style and music of the stars of the Motown stable.
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After a few questions from students, Legend bellied up to the piano to sing "Love's in Need of Love Today," introducing the tune by declaring: "My favorite Motown artist is a man by the name of Stevie Wonder.
Motown meets White House: Concert celebrates storied record label through song
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The last couple of years I've been on a big Motown kick.
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Wonderfully loungy vocals on this undeservedly obscure 1971 Motown single.
Easy, Breezy Mix : Scrubbles.net
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`Franklin' - Smokes grinned- `she's the noisiest thing to come out of the Motown since Little Stevie Wonder.
DESPERADOES
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Brady68: Amazing to think that facebook and twitter have now changed And Obama is too busy boogying to Motown to use the word "Gaddafi".
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com
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That was Universal Motown artist Akon singing the title song from his latest album, " Freedom.
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That was Universal Motown Akon singing the title song from his latest album, " Freedom.
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The Motown legend plays two London shows.
Times, Sunday Times
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Joseph Jackson didn't read the contract he signed for the boys; he thought he was committing them for one year but in effect Motown locked them in for five; their royalty rate amounted to roughly a dime per album -- say $100,000 for a million records sold -- minus whatever the label spent on the band, for recording and just about anything else.
Chicago Reader
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Each track sounds like it comes from Motown Records in its '70s heyday.
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The Motown Sound" has left a legacy stretching over the past 50 years, even after the label moved from hometown Detroit to soulless L.A. 500th Womanizer
Stories from The Sun
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A band was performing Motown songs in a bandshell and hundreds of people were camped out on their folding chairs and beach towels in front of the stage.
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Mitch and Joyce used to dance all over the kitchen every time a Motown record came on the radio," I said.
WHAT LOOKS LIKE CRAZY ON AN ORDINARY DAY
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Motown is also producing a series of podcasts to be rolled out gradually over the year.
2009 January : Scrubbles.net
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Woods supported Motown with ample airplay and was rewarded with the exclusive rights to promote the Revue when it reached Philadelphia.
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I know it's supposed to be all about getting cap room, but I just do not see LBJ in Motown, if there even still is a Motown in 2010.
Is Joe Dumars still a Genius?
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Marvin Gaye, another DC native son, was just beginning to make his mark at Motown when he released this song back in 1962.
Clicky shuffle: Random songs for Wednesday morning
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I was a cultural mulatto, born and raised without the benefits of Watts, chop shops, Motown street corners, or deep down Smithville fishing holes and chinaberry trees… I was too black to be white, too white to be black.
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Or maybe it Michael Jackson stamping his Nijinsky onto Thriller -- Michael's American Schereazade -- where he retrofitted the 'epaulement, releve' and grand plie 'into the Moonwalk's reverse ballet, on Motown 25.
Barry Michael Cooper: Michael Jackson Agonistes: An American Pop'era In Three Acts
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The women of Motown created an enduring music that, after four decades, continues to keep us dancing in the streets, dubs and basements.
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Motown is about to celebrate its 50th anniversary.
Archive 2008-11-01
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The Motown slowdown is in high gear this week.
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Anatomy of a Song When the Marvelettes' "Please Mr. Postman" became Motown's first No. 1 pop hit 50 years ago next month, no one at the label expected they would be the group to do it.
Is There a Letter in Your Bag For Me?
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Though the group recorded in Motown, it never released an album in part because of Jamesâs AWOL status.
Five People Born on February 1 | myFiveBest
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She is currently co-writing the book for a major Broadway musical built around the songbook of Motown legend, Smokey Robinson.
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Can white superstars breathe new life into downbeat Motown?
Times, Sunday Times
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Designers glissaded around Motown or Tokyo -- and, often enough, Southern California, where many automakers headquartered their design operations -- in monochrome suits, exotic eyeglasses and pricey footwear, presenting themselves as artistic companions to contemporary architects like Rem Koolhaas and Daniel Libeskind, or noted product designers such as Philippe Starck.
Matthew DeBord: After the Golden Age, Can Car Design Go Green?
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It's obviously late fifties/early sixties, American in origin without any shadow of a doubt and closer to Phil Spector than Motown in feel, arrangement and production.
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Everybody knows the kick and the pushdown from the Motown reunion show.
CNN Transcript Jun 28, 2009
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Woods supported Motown with ample airplay and was rewarded with the exclusive rights to promote the Revue when it reached Philadelphia.
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Even though she left Motown when the label moved to Los Angeles in 1972, Reeves has never stopped performing.
Www.startribune.com
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For those of us who weren't there during Motown's Detroit peak, when the label blossomed into one of the world's top music factories, Thursday offered a taste of what must have been.
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Would Berry Gordy have allowed bizarre scatting on the outro of a tune, or have allowed a track like ‘Run Run Run’ on a 1967 Motown album?
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Motown execs are right about one thing: there's little immediate threat of a financial collapse.
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Can white superstars breathe new life into downbeat Motown?
Times, Sunday Times
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Firming up the Motown connection, the album will be released by Cool Records -- the label operated by William Guest of Gladys Knight & the Pips.
California Chronicle
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`Franklin' - Smokes grinned- `she's the noisiest thing to come out of the Motown since Little Stevie Wonder.
DESPERADOES
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The dance floor was freshly powdered for slippery Motown spins.
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Pop has always done this kind of thing - check back to the first half of the 60s when doo-wop, Motown and girl-groups turned the charts into a tub of sudsy glory.
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On the other side of the room, a DJ spins some inoffensive Motown choons.
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By then the Motown label had blown all the other record companies out of the water.
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Stars from Paul Weller to Will Young list their all-time Motown favourites.
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A Revitalized Motown but Can the Team Beat the Elite?
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Fania Records can be described as the Latin equivalent to Motown: The label acted as an incubator for the sound that became known as salsa.
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Inside the booze store, it was cool as a cuke, though, and some nice Motown was being pumped in.
Jack Bog's Blog: August 2009 Archives
