Junior Walkerwas the stage-name of Autry DeWalt Mixon, who was born in 1931 in Blytheville, Arkansas, and grew up in...

Race Records was the most common name used by record companies during the first half of the twentieth century to...

The short-lived Miracle label, set up in 1961 and given a name change to Gordy in 1962, released just ten...

Stevie Wonder came to Motown in 1961 at the age of eleven, at the invitation of Ronnie White of the...

Malcolm John Rebennack was born in New Orleans in 1941. As a teenager he learned to play guitar and started...

Hall’s solution to the problems posed by the departure of the Swampers in 1969 was to put together a new...

Bettye Jean Champion was born in Shreveport, Louisiana, in 1944, one of fourteen children. Her family were sharecroppers. She grew...

Clarence Carter was born in 1936 in Montgomery, Alabama. He was blind from birth. In 1960 he graduated from Alabama...

Soon after the creation of the company, Satellite Records signed a local group called the Mar-Keys, that had grown out...

Jack Ashford was born in 1934 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania,  where he attended the Granhof School of Music, following in the...