What Made Motown Special?
When Berry Gordy started out in the music business as a songwriter, he may have been dreaming of setting up...
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Specialty Records
Arthur Goldberg was born on September 5th 1917 in Greensburg, in the state of Pennsylvania. He became aware of the...
Artists at Revilot Records
Revilot Records was operational from 1966 to 1969, releasing around twenty-five singles. It was set up by LeBaron Taylor and...
Natalie Cole; The First Three Albums
Natalie Cole, Nat King Cole’s daughter, was born in Los Angeles in 1950. She made her first commercial recordings in...
The Motown labels
The Motown story began not with Motown Records but with Tamla, set up in 1959, when Berry Gordy took the...
Billy Stewart
Billy Stewart was born William Larry Stewart II in 1937 in Washington DC. He was the eldest of four brothers...
The Dells at Chess
The Dells left Vee-Jay, following their road accident and came back to Chess Records in 1962, where they had begun...
Rotary Connection
In 1966, Leonard Chess retired from Chess Records to work in radio, leaving his son Marshall Chess in charge. The...
Ramsey Lewis
Ramsey Lewis was born in Chicago in 1935. He studied piano from a very young age and was attracted to...
The Dells at Vee-Jay
In 1953, six school friends at Thornton Township High School in the southern Chicago suburb of Harvey formed The El-Rays....
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