On January 12, 1959, Berry Gordy Jr. started Tamla Records with the help of an $800 loan from his family, starting a journey that would forever change the music industry. The following year, it merged ...

Exploring the incredible work of Texan songwriter and guitarist Barbara Lynn, who found success during the 1960s as an R&B and soul music singer-songwriter.

Later, to amuse himself on the Ford assembly line, Gordy would make up songs. Eventually, he found himself writing for singer Jackie Wilson and helping ... out 110 Billboard Top 10 hits.

The Ybor City pianist and singer, a fixture at Donatello Italian Restaurant, performed for Etta James, B.B. King and more.

Today in Music History for Feb. 15: ...

Vernon’s Ten To The Top quiz - which sees two contestants ... in Detroit and meeting his idol Berry Gordy (when Berry was Jackie Wilson’s songwriter, before he created Motown Records).

MBW’s Key Songs In The Life Of… is a series in which we ask influential music industry figures about the tracks that have – ...

Beyoncé leads the 2025 Grammys nominee pack, but Billie Eilish, Kendrick Lamar and Charli xcx are vying for their moment in ...

In addition to these long- term commitments Washington has worked and recorded with an extremely large number of top- tier artists ... Gerald Wilson,Lou Donaldson, Barry Harris, Lew Tabakin, Sweets ...

Perhaps more than any other act, their songs illustrated the debt owed by ... Prater had forgotten the words to a Jackie Wilson tune, and Moore encouraged him by singing the lines first.