A music icon's timeless hit has been ranked as the No. 1 Motown Song ever. Motown Records, founded in 1959, produced ...

In January 1959, a little-known songwriter named Berry Gordy took $800 he scrounged together from family — along with meager royalties he earned writing "Lonely Teardrops" for Jackie Wilson — to found ...

The former auto worker, who founded Motown Records in 1959 with a loan and a prayer, has decided to step down from the company that transformed American culture Berry Gordy, who founded Motown Records ...

"Motown 60: A Grammy Celebration," which airs April 21 on CBS, pays respect to a history-making, game-changing record company. But, for the record, Motown was 14 years old before the label received… ...

DETROIT (AP) — The historic section of Detroit where Motown Records founder Berry Gordy Jr. built his music empire six decades ago is now looking better than ever. Motown legend — and Gordy’s best ...

“I didn’t want to be a big record mogul and all that stuff. I just wanted to write songs and make people laugh.”-Berry Gordy When Berry Gordy launched a small independent record label in 1959 in a two ...

Motown the Musical is the real story of the one-of-a-kind sound that hit the airwaves in 1959 and changed our culture forever. This exhilarating show charts Motown founder Berry Gordy’s incredible ...

Discover which of the label's stars are worth the most today, based on wealth estimates from Celebrity Net Worth. Not every Motown star ended up mega-rich. The label's factory-style system could ...