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Motown Records, Founded on This Day in 1959, Broke Racial Barriers in Pop Music With Its Beloved Hits
Smithsonian Magazine ^ | January 12, 2025 | Teresa Nowakowski

Posted on 01/12/2025 2:56:24 PM PST by nickcarraway

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1 posted on 01/12/2025 2:56:24 PM PST by nickcarraway
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Who cares? Many Americans are tired of getting black culture shoved down their throats by the entertainment industry and government. It’s all queers and blacks these days...


2 posted on 01/12/2025 3:10:52 PM PST by wildcard_redneck
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as a mostly white, music Loving teen drummer who bought “Hit Parade” magazine and read it from cover to cover every issue, I can honestly say that MOTOWN MUSIC changed MY life, thoughts and viewpoints more than any other single thing in my life! music is more than just sound, it is the Soul of life.


3 posted on 01/12/2025 3:15:56 PM PST by Qwapisking (Q: know the difference between a petulant 6 y.o. and a liberal? A:age. L.Star )
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LOL. Back in the 60's, Motown had very strict rule about their music, their dress, etc. They couldn't mention sex, drugs, anything, they had to dress formally. Their music promoted more traditional values, and sex roles than most of "white music" did.

So you want the drugs, the LSD, the counterculture, the leftism, the degeneracy in music, but you don't want the traditional values?

Who was more conservative, the Beatles or Motown?

4 posted on 01/12/2025 3:16:01 PM PST by nickcarraway
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"Who was more conservative, the Beatles or Motown?"
5 posted on 01/12/2025 3:18:25 PM PST by wildcard_redneck
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So you want the drugs, the LSD, the counterculture, the leftism, the degeneracy in music, but you don’t want the traditional values?


Then came The Temptations’ “Psychedelic Shack”


6 posted on 01/12/2025 3:20:37 PM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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Best thing about Motown was “The Funk Brothers”


7 posted on 01/12/2025 3:21:47 PM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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I loved (still do) Motown.

When it came on the scene, skin color wasn’t a thing as far as I can recall. Just loved the music. The Supremes is the first group I remember really getting in to.


8 posted on 01/12/2025 3:22:46 PM PST by MayflowerMadam (It's hard not to celebrate the fall of bad people. - Bongino)
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people of all races and religions, working together harmoniously for a common goal,”


Nowadays saying that will get you labelled as an “Uncle Tom”.


9 posted on 01/12/2025 3:25:17 PM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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Berry Gordy Jr. and his musicians deserve a very hearty well-done.

Thank you!


10 posted on 01/12/2025 3:38:25 PM PST by Brian Griffin
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Proof there is no racism.


11 posted on 01/12/2025 3:40:08 PM PST by DIRTYSECRET
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MOTOWN MUSIC changed MY life, thoughts and viewpoints more than any other single thing in my life!

I agree. As a 13 year old white boy growing up in a small coastal logging town, I'd never seen a black person in my life. There was tons of racism for reasons to this day I don't know why. We had no interaction with blacks. Now Swedes? That was different. ;-)

Then the Motown era came along and I was madly infatuated with the likes of Diana Ross, Gladys Knight and so on. My toe could not tapping when Sam and Dave, the Temps or Wilson Pickett sang. The music was a bridge.

12 posted on 01/12/2025 3:47:12 PM PST by llevrok (Keep buggering on!)
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I had a mad schoolboy crush on Diana Ross.


13 posted on 01/12/2025 3:50:54 PM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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It’s all queers and blacks these days...

It wasn't back then. Motown dominated the music of the 60's,,,,,,like it or not.

14 posted on 01/12/2025 3:52:47 PM PST by Hot Tabasco
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Motown dominated the music of the 60’s,


And Stax.


15 posted on 01/12/2025 3:54:21 PM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Hot Tabasco

Before my time.


16 posted on 01/12/2025 4:01:59 PM PST by wildcard_redneck
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Obviously. Because you’re talking out your ass.


17 posted on 01/12/2025 4:19:22 PM PST by bigdaddy45
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To: nickcarraway

Listen to Motown to this day...grew up with the Temps, Tops and the rest. No twerking, profanity or rap, just wonderful music.
Used to take the bus to downtown St. Louis to buy my 45’s at “The Record Bar”.... owned by actor Kevin Kline’s family.

All long gone now...can’t venture downtown even with extra clips of ammo.


18 posted on 01/12/2025 4:20:54 PM PST by AFret. (.)
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"Obviously. Because you’re talking out your ass."

What I said stands. Only useless boomers, the same creepy, greedy and communist generation that is dragging America to hell, care about Motown.

19 posted on 01/12/2025 4:22:57 PM PST by wildcard_redneck
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haha. Nothing like doubling down on it.


20 posted on 01/12/2025 4:34:32 PM PST by bigdaddy45
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