Motown Records was also the name of Gordy's second record label ; the first, Tamla Records, began on January 12, 1959.

Before the end of 1961, Tamla issued the first Marvelettes album, also named Please Mr. Postman, but it failed to chart.

The song has been covered by several artists most notably, Shorty Long, whose 1968 Tamla Motown version also entered the UK charts in July 1968 but only reached 30 as its highest position.

The couple had two children, daughter Tamla Robinson ( b. 1969 ) and son Berry Robinson ( b. 1968 ), named after Motown's first label and Berry Gordy respectively.

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.

By the time the record reached # 1 on the US pop charts in April 1971, Kendricks had signed a solo deal with Motown's Tamla imprint and was preparing the release of his first solo album, All By Myself.

Gwen and Anna's brother Berry Gordy had just established his Tamla label ( soon Motown would follow ), and licensed the song to the Anna label in 1960, which was distributed nationwide by Chicago-based Chess Records in order to meet demand ; the Tamla record was a resounding success in the Midwest.

Released as a single in 1976 on the Tamla label, the song introduced a change in musical styles for Gaye, who before then had been recording songs with a funk edge.

By 1969, Robinson had tired of constantly touring with the Miracles, and wanted to remain home in Detroit, Michigan with his wife Claudette and their two children, Berry and Tamla ( both named after aspects of the Motown corporation ).

And while Motown's first signing act, Marv Johnson, was one of the label's earliest hitmakers, most of his music was released to United Artists, while Motown Recordings and its imprints Tamla, Motown and Gordy, had still not produced much success.

Following the success of What's Going On, Marvin Gaye had not only won creative control but a renewed $ 1 million contract with Motown subsidiary Tamla had made the musician then the most profitable R & B artist of all time.

Frustrated by conflicts and fights with Temptations Otis Williams and Melvin Franklin, and producer Whitfield's steadfast insistence on producing psychedelic soul for the group when they really wanted to sing ballads, Kendricks had quit the act and negotiated a solo deal with Motown's Tamla label.

On April 14, 1960, Motown and Tamla Records merged into a new company called Motown Record Corporation.

Tamla was briefly re-activated in 1996 as a reggae label, but only released a 12 " single by Cocoa Tea called " New Immigration Law ".

On April 14, 1960, Motown and Tamla Records merged into a new company called Motown Record Corporation.

Berry produced a record on the Penny Label ( part of early Tamla Records ) in the spring of 1959 showcasing a white doo-wop group known as " Bryan Brent and The Cutouts ".

Following the forming of Tamla Records, later reincorporated as Motown, the Miracles became one of the first acts signed to the label.

* January 12 – Tamla Records is founded by Berry Gordy Jr. in Detroit, Michigan.

On January 12, 1959, he started Tamla Records, with an $ 800 loan from his family and from royalties earned writing for Jackie Wilson.

* Tamla Records: Established 1959, Tamla was a primary subsidiary for mainstream R & B / soul music.

Tamla is actually the company's original label: Gordy founded Tamla Records several months before establishing the Motown Record Corporation.

Tamla Records slogan: " The Sound that Makes the World Go ' Round.

Category: Tamla Records albums

In 1959, at Miracles leader Smokey Robinson's encouragement, Gordy borrowed $ 800 from his family to create R & B label Tamla Records.

Barrett Strong's " Money ( That's What I Want )" initially appearing on Tamla and then charted on Gordy's sister's label, Anna Records, in February 1960.

* Marvin Gaye ( on Tamla Records album The Soulful Moods of Marvin Gaye, catalog number TM 221, released June 1961 )

The group first began recording under the End Records label in 1958, releasing the song, " Got a Job ", before the formation of Tamla Records in 1959, where they released their first charted single, " Bad Girl ", which was nationally distributed by Chess Records.

Following the formation of Motown Records in 1960, the group charted with " Way Over There " before returning to the Tamla subsidiary and recorded the label's first million-selling hit single, " Shop Around ", in 1960.

After earning only $ 3. 19 for his production success, Gordy was told by Robinson to form his own label, which Gordy did, forming Tamla Records in 1959.

One of the Miracles ' first Tamla singles, the ballad " Bad Girl ", became the Miracles ' first song to chart that October when it was licensed to and issued nationally by Chess Records.

The next Miracles song, " It ", was actually credited to " Ron & Bill ", in a duet between White and Robinson, and was released on Tamla and nationally picked by Argo Records.

On January 21, 1959, " Come To Me " by Marv Johnson was issued as Tamla 101.

In 1959, Gordy formed his first label, Tamla Records, and purchased the property that would become Motown's Hitsville U. S. A. studio.

" Money ( That's What I Want )" is a 1959 hit single by Barrett Strong for the Tamla label, distributed nationally on Anna Records.

Motown founder Berry Gordy gave Claudette the official title of the " First Lady of Motown ", as noted in his autobiography, because, as a member of the Miracles, ( Motown's first group and first recording act ), she was the first female artist ever signed to a Motown-affiliated record label ( Tamla ).

Following his signing to Motown's Tamla label, Gaye having been inspired by such singers like Nat King Cole, Ray Charles and Frank Sinatra to perform standards, figuring the move would make him a crossover success, rather than perform the usual R & B performed on Motown, bringing him to conflict with the label.

In the United Kingdom, Tamla Motown released " The Night " as a single and saw it reach the # 7 position on the UK Singles Chart.

When he found the name was already in use, he decided on Tamla instead.

Top artists on the Motown label during that period included Diana Ross & The Supremes, The Four Tops, and The Jackson 5, while Stevie Wonder, Marvin Gaye, The Marvelettes, and The Miracles released hits on the Tamla label.

First released on gramophone by Tamla ( Motown ), it has been multiply reissued on cassette and compact disc.

The Tamla and Motown labels were then merged into a new company Motown Record Corporation, which was incorporated on April 14, 1960.

* January 1959-" Merry-Go-Round " ( initially released on Tamla, later on United Artists )

Later that year, the group, returning to Tamla, issued the song, " Shop Around ", which became the group's first major hit single, reaching the top of the R & B charts and peaking at # 2 on the Billboard Hot 100, selling over a million copies.

Northern soul mainly consists of a particular style of black American soul music based on the heavy beat and fast tempo of the mid-1960s Tamla Motown sound.

In 1979 Motown released a compilation album on both sides of the Atlantic ; " From the Vaults ", US Natural Resources label NR 4014 & in the UK on Tamla Motown STMR 9001, on this Album was The Spinners ; " What More Could a Boy Ask For " ( Fuqua & Bristol ) circa 1965, this Northern Soul track, only commercially available in this form, reignited existing Motown and Spinners fans.

" I Heard It Through the Grapevine " is a song written by Norman Whitfield and Barrett Strong for Motown Records in 1966, and made famous in a version by Marvin Gaye released as a single in October 1968 on Motown's Tamla label.

Top artists on the Motown label during that period included Diana Ross & The Supremes, The Four Tops, and The Jackson 5, while Stevie Wonder, Marvin Gaye, and The Miracles released hits on the Tamla label.