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Motown and struggled
Though they had more chart action with Motown than with previous labels, the group struggled with follow-ups and when their contract was up in 1968, the brothers opted not to renew it.
As she struggled to continue treatment, old Motown friends, including Diana Ross, Mary Wilson, members of The Temptations and Martha Reeves, made donations to support her, along with the help of admirers such as Dionne Warwick, Rod Stewart, Bruce Springsteen, Aretha Franklin and Bonnie Raitt.
Despite their early successes, the group were eclipsed in popularity by groups like The Supremes, with whom they shared an intense rivalry and struggled with issues of dismal promotion from Motown, illnesses and mental breakdowns, with Cowart the first to leave in 1963, followed by Georgeanna Tillman two years later and Gladys Horton two years after that.
The group struggled with recordings after the release of " Magician ", with Motown offering little to no promotion.
Motown struggled to get Gaye in the studio as Gaye focused on work on an album ( which would later be released as Here, My Dear, dedicated to Gaye's troubled first marriage ).

Motown and find
According to fellow Funk Brothers in the 2002 documentary Standing in the Shadows of Motown, Gaye was desperate to have Jamerson play on " What's Going On ", and went to several bars to find the bassist.
Between his release from the U. S. Air Force in 1957 and signing with Motown Records ' Tamla imprint in 1961, Marvin Pentz Gay, Jr. was struggling to find his identity in the music business.

Motown and good
It featured a cover of the Motown classic " Little Darling ( I Need You )", " Echoes Of Love " ( written for, but not recorded by, Al Green by James Mitchell, then of the Memphis Horns, and Earl Randle, both of whom had worked with Green a good bit, to which Simmons added some music and lyrics co-writing the finished version with Mitchell and Randle ; the song was later covered by the Pointer Sisters and ex-New Seekers vocalist Lyn Paul ), and " You Belong To Me " ( co-written by McDonald and Carly Simon, who had a hit with her own version of the tune ).
And age 69 feels real good .” She also recently expressed dismay at the state of current pop music, saying, " We didn't have to send our children out of the room when we were with Motown.
After the song's success, the group would release their last Motown album, Moving Violation, before leaving the label for good in 1976.

Motown and material
The group left Motown in 1986 for Polydor, and released several additional albums, which are primarily compilations of previous material.
Although much of the earlier Undertones material drew influence from punk rock and new wave, the Undertones also incorporated elements of rock, glam rock and post-punk into material released after 1979, before citing soul and Motown as the influence for the material released upon their final album.
Gaye, who was one of the few Motown artists to write his own material, produced and co-wrote two hits for The Originals including " Baby I'm For Real " and " The Bells ".
Following the end of their Motown tenure, the Isley Brothers revived their T-Neck label and began recording and producing their own compositions, something Motown had told them to avoid, due to the label's policy on artists producing their own material.
Motown producer Norman Whitfield, for example, patterned the label's forays into harder-driving, socially relevant material ( such as The Temptations ' " Runaway Child " and " Ball of Confusion ") based on their sound.
While at Motown, Knight & the Pips recorded for Soul Records, a label Motown used for acts that recorded material with more of an R & B flavor than a pop flavor.
In 1968, the band signed with Motown Records and began recording material a year later.
In 1981, Wilson signed with Nightmare Records, a label that aimed to record new material with former Motown artists, she recorded several singles for the label, none of them reached chart status in the US.
Throughout his recording career, Dozier has largely avoided the temptation to revisit his catalog of Motown hits, preferring instead to record new material.
Initially they were a soul band playing Motown covers and rock-based material.
Due to a legal dispute with Motown, from 1969 through 1972 they did not write material under their own names, but instead used the collective pseudonym " Edythe Wayne ".
Curiously, HDHP worked on material for Motown artists in the ' 70s, including The Supremes and Michael Jackson, even while its litigation against the company was still pending.
Haskell and McCulloch had an unhappy experience recording Lizard, Haskell especially a devotee of soul and Motown music finding it difficult to connect with the material.
He found a songwriting collaborator in lyricist Barrett Strong, the performer on Motown's first hit record, " Money ( That's What I Want )", and wrote material for The Temptations and other Motown artists such as Marvin Gaye and Gladys Knight & the Pips, both of whom recorded Whitfield-produced hit versions of the Whitfield / Strong composition " I Heard It Through the Grapevine ".
In 1987, Holloway returned to a secular singing career, recording for producer Ian Levine's UK label Motorcity Records, which often recorded material featuring former Motown acts.
The repertoire consisted of material from all four of The Band's studio albums up to that point, which were framed on the album by covers of the 1964 Motown hit single " Baby Don't You Do It " by Marvin Gaye, and the b-side "( I Don't Want to Hang Up ) My Rock and Roll Shoes " to the final single by Chuck Willis in 1958, " What Am I Living For.
Though DeBarge never fully recovered from their 1986 fallout, the group's classic Motown material has been either frequently sampled or covered over the years.
It was followed by the album Investigate ( 1990 ), which included some re-recordings of her Motown hits as well as new material.
After its disbanding, Motown would credit Gordy, Mizell, Richards, and Perren individually on compilation releases containing Corporation-created Jackson 5 material.

Motown and for
The members of the group met as mostly freshmen at Tuskegee Institute ( now Tuskegee University ) in 1968, and signed with Motown in November 1972, having first caught the public eye opening for The Jackson 5 while on tour.
One of Sullivan's favorite and most frequent acts was The Supremes, who appeared 17 times on the show, helping to pave the way for other Motown acts to appear on the show such as The Temptations, The Four Tops, and Martha and the Vandellas.
In Stockport, he joined local bands The Rainmakers and then The Motown Sect who enjoyed playing northern clubs for three years.
* January 29 James Jamerson, American bass guitarist for Motown Records ( d. 1983 )
Formed in imitative style of the Motown girl group The Supremes, the group members had gradually honed their talents with White for two years previously until they signed contracts with Uni Records.
Berry Gordy's successful Tamla / Motown group of labels was notable for being black-owned, unlike most of the earlier independent R & B labels.
Allmusic cites Motown as the pioneering label of pop-soul, a style of soul music with raw vocals, but polished production and toned-down subject matter intended for pop radio and crossover success.
The Gliderdrome was famous in the 1960s for attracting top Motown acts as well as various other artists including, in the 1970s, Elton John and Marc Bolan & T. Rex and in the early 1980s " Yam Hologram ".
* Apollo ( quintet ), a quintet that recorded for Motown Records in the late 1970s
After transcribing other people's music for a small music publisher, Webb was signed to a songwriting contract with Jobete Music, the publishing arm of Motown Records.
The group would later record for Bell / Arista Records, ABC Records, and Motown Records.
For a period in the 1960s Clinton was a staff songwriter for Motown.
Parliament is a funk / R & B band whose influences are the funky side of Hendrix and Sly Stone, Motown soul groups turned funk groups like the Temptations, the political songs of the Impressions, Rufus Thomas ' southern funk, doo-wop groups like the Coasters for the humour and Frankie Lymon & the Teenagers.
The Parliaments finally achieved a hit single in 1967 with "( I Wanna ) Testify " while Clinton began commuting to Detroit as a songwriter and producer for Motown Records.
Eventually, Clinton gained employment at Motown Records as a songwriter and producer, making weekly trips to Detroit to produce for The Pets, Roy Handy, and other acts.
They started traveling to Detroit, Michigan on weekends in order to audition for Motown Records and to participate in the fertile music scene there.
Among other attractions, the Railroad Festival includes southern foods — such as fried catfish, barbecue, and apple fritters — rides, arts and crafts, and live music, most notably the local band The Gents who have brought fans out for years with their Motown, Blues Brothers and classic oldies show.
Jackson was also the home of singers Carl Perkins and Luther Ingram ; game show host Wink Martindale ; football players Ed " Too Tall " Jones, Al Wilson, Trey Teague, and Jabari Greer ; pianist Joe Hunter ( one of the Funk Brothers studio band who played on many Motown hits in the 1960s ) the rock band Full Devil Jacket, American soul singer, songwriter and actress Lauren Pritchard, originating and playing the role of the 15-year-old runaway " Ilse " in the hit Broadway show Spring Awakening for two years, Former Miss Tennessee Allison Leigh Alderson DeMarcus, and American country music artist Whitney Duncan.
Today, Decca is a leading label for both classical music and Broadway scores although it is branching out into pop music from established recording stars: its most recent hit was Motown: A Journey Through Hitsville USA ( 2007 ) by Boyz II Men, which reached No. 27 on the Billboard Top 200 Albums chart.
The single topped the US Billboard pop charts for two weeks in January 1975 as well as the Canadian RPM national singles chart for four weeks spanning January and February, eventually overtaken by The Carpenters's version of the Motown hit " Please Mr. Postman ", a song covered, with Lennon singing the lead vocal, on With the Beatles in 1963.
The Mynah Birds were set to record an album for Motown Records when their singer Ricky James Matthews ( later known as Rick James ) was tracked down and arrested by the U. S. Navy for being AWOL.

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