In 1959, two black-owned record labels, one of which would become hugely successful, made their debut: Sam Cooke's Sar, and Berry Gordy's Motown Records.

Dominated by Berry Gordy's Motown Records empire, Detroit soul is strongly rhythmic and influenced by gospel music.

In 1960, Fuqua, on the advice of the Chess Brothers, moved to Detroit, Michigan, disbanded the Moonglows, and started working with Berry Gordy's sister, Gwen Gordy.

In 1959, Billy Davis and Berry Gordy's sisters Gwen and Anna started Anna Records.

Many of Gordy's family members, including his father Berry, Sr., brothers Robert and George, and sister Esther, were eventually given key roles in the company.

A revolving door of executives were appointed by MCA to run the company, beginning with Berry Gordy's immediate successor, Jheryl Busby.

The label and its subsidiaries were purchased by Berry Gordy in 1966, and folded into Gordy's Motown Record Corporation.

Gordy's eighth and youngest child is a son he has with Nancy Leiviska, known by his stage name as Redfoo of the duo LMFAO ( the other member of the duo is Skyler Gordy, born August 23, 1986, and known professionally as SkyBlu ; he is the grandson of Gordy and Thelma Coleman through their son Berry Gordy IV, and his wife, Valerie Robeson ):

In 1960, 17-year-old Wells approached Tamla Records founder Berry Gordy at Detroit's Twenty Grand club with a song she had intended for Jackie Wilson to record, since Wells knew of Gordy's collaboration with Wilson.

Eddie Holland had been working with Motown founder Berry Gordy prior to that label being formed ; his 1958 Mercury single " You " was one of Gordy's earliest productions.

Dozier had been a recording artist for several labels in the late 1950s and early 1960s, including the Anna label ( owned by Berry Gordy's sister ) and Motown subsidiary Mel-o-dy.

Starting in 1959 he found steady work at Berry Gordy's Hitsville U. S. A. studio, home of the Motown record label.

The Miracles ' version was not released as a single due to Berry Gordy's veto during Motown's weekly quality control meetings ; Gordy advised Whitfield and Strong to create a stronger single.

Davis and Gwen Gordy later founded the Anna record label, which was the distributor of the early singles from Berry Gordy's Tamla ( later Motown ) label.

Also featured are Motown's " Studio A " and Berry Gordy's upstairs apartment, decorated to appear as they did during the 1960s.

Norman Jesse Whitfield ( May 12, 1940 – September 16, 2008 ) was an American songwriter and producer, best known for his work with Berry Gordy's Motown label during the 1960s.

In the fall of 1960, the group auditioned for Berry Gordy's Motown Records.

Strong was among the first artists signed to Berry Gordy's Motown corporation, and is the performer on the company's first hit, " Money ( That's What I Want )", which reached No. 2 U. S. R & B in 1960.

The song was written by Tamla founder Berry Gordy and Janie Bradford, and became the first hit record for Gordy's Motown enterprise.

When the tour ended in late 1984, the group recorded the Diane Warren composition, " Rhythm of the Night ", for the soundtrack to the Motown-produced film, Berry Gordy's The Last Dragon.

* Berry Gordy's Motown Record Corporation's signature act ; their first Group, and their first million selling act was the Miracles.

The company was originally founded by Berry Gordy, Jr., in 1968, as Motown Productions, the film and television arm of Gordy's Motown Records label.

Motown briefly returned to feature films with Berry Gordy's The Last Dragon, which became Motown's final theatrical feature.

The engineering team worked around the clock perfecting the single's mix and making hand-cut vinyl records so that Berry Gordy's sister Esther in the Artist Development department could critique them and select the best ones for single release.

Berry ’ s voice was also used at Modern, again uncredited, as the counterpoint to Etta James on her first record and big hit, " The Wallflower ( Dance with Me, Henry )", and several of its less successful follow-ups.

In 1984, after a successful reunion of The Temptations, Wilson was approached by Motown to reform the Supremes with Scherrie Payne and Cindy Birdsong, but after careful consideration and advice from Berry Gordy Jr., Wilson declined.

Despite the successful campaigns of the 1980s and 1990s featuring models, in particular Cindy Crawford, Revlon decided to drop fashion models and focus on movie stars, among them Kate Bosworth, Jaime King, Halle Berry, Susan Sarandon, Melanie Griffith, Julianne Moore, Eva Mendes, Jessica Alba, Jennifer Connelly, Beau Garrett, Jessica Biel, and Bond girls.

Other successful country music acts from Georgia include Billy Currington, Cyndi Thomson, Jennifer Nettles of Sugarland, Daryle Singletary, Doug Stone, John Berry, Rhett Akins, Mark Wills, And up and coming stars Jason Aldean, Brantley Gilbert, Luke Bryan, Thomas Rhett, Kip Moore and Lauren Alaina.

According to Berry as documented in some of his successful cash baits, the proceeds of such reverse scams were given to a local charity.

Future Distants recordings were not as successful, and after an offer from Berry Gordy of Motown Records, Williams and his friends / bandmates Elbridge " Al " Bryant and Melvin Franklin quit the Distants.

Lille's most successful period was the decade from 1946 – 1956 when the team was led by managers George Berry and André Cheuva.

Meanwhile, Berry Rydell, a former cop turned private security agent, is contracted to recover the pair of glasses for Lucius Warbaby, an intimidating and presumably successful " skip-tracer ", a sort of bondsman / bounty hunter.

The majority of his songs during this period were uncertified covers of successful hits of Chuck Berry, Elvis Presley, The Beatles and others.

While making moderately successful records written largely by Berry, such as Paradise ( Temptations song ) and I Want a Love I Can See, and getting real choreography from Chollie Atkins, the group start to become known as " The Hitless Temptations " as they can't seem to make a real hit in the first three years under the Motown label.

He made the 12th successful ascent of Mount Sir Sandford in the Canadian North Selkirk Mountains with Ron Zimmerman and Brian Berry, brother of Jan Berry of the United States musical group, Jan and Dean.

Gordy, like most of her family, became a successful businesswoman, starting out as a co-operator of the photo concession at Detroit's Flame Show Bar in the early fifties with sister Gwen, later starting her own namesake label, Anna Records with Gwen and Billy Davis in 1958, a year before her brother Berry launched Tamla Records, later to be a subsidiary for Motown.

Berry starred in the successful comedies F-Troop, The Andy Griffith Show spin-off Mayberry RFD, and The Carol Burnett Show spin-off Mama's Family.

Wash's attorneys were successful in ensuring that Lucy Ann Berry was kept in St. Louis, but it appeared Mitchell enforced her imprisonment.

Clarence Jesse Berry ( 1867 – 1930 ), known as C. J., was a businessman and successful gold miner in the Klondike Gold Rush.

On July 17, 1897, CJ and Ethyl Berry and other successful miners arrived in Seattle aboard the SS Portland, the first ship to put into the port with tangible proof of the riches of the Klondike.

Lofty Holloway ( Tom Watt ), Simon Wicks ( Nick Berry ) and even Arthur Fowler ( Bill Treacher ) are all subject to Angie's not-so-subtle flirting, but her only successful conquest is local builder, Tony Carpenter ( Oscar James ).