Do Elemental’s budget Motown reissues deliver? A clear-eyed review of Four Tops and Supremes albums from the late ’60s and early ’70s.
Tamla Records was once the pipeline for entrepreneur Berry Gordy’s earliest releases out of Detroit. The West Grand Boulevard-based Tamla Records was launched by Gordy in 1959 as he began to build ...
Motown combined elements of blues, gospel, swing, and pop with a thumping backbeat for a new dance music that was instantly recognizable. Competing for teen attention primarily against records by the ...