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...
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.
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.
people of all races and religions, working together harmoniously for a common goal,”
Nowadays saying that will get you labelled as an “Uncle Tom”.
Berry Gordy Jr. and his musicians deserve a very hearty well-done.
Thank you!
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.
Black people covered the Irish with their tap dancing. Black people covered the Episcopalians and Baptists with their spirituals. So what? Why is the Smithsonian doing neo-Marxist, collectivist identity politics?
Thanks to the Democrats dysfunctional mismanagement of Detroit, Motown fled the city in 1972.
Paralleling the rise of Motown was CKLW, a super powerful AM radio station in Windsor, Ontario, right across the river from Detroit.
They played music and didn’t care about skin color. They introduced black music from Motown and others to a largely white colorblind audience. And that audience was massive. Because of their powerful signal, CKLW beamed over much of Canada and the US. At one point, CKLW was the number one rated station is something like eight states and five provinces.
Motown and CKLW!