The Key of Life
I know we are a rock crowd. But growing up, Motown music had a huge effect on our musical tastes. And everyone from The Beatles and Stones to CCR and Doobie Brothers covered Motown songs. On this date in 1976, the stunningly superb Songs In the Key of Life was released. Thriller had the otherworldly […]
MOTOWN
On this date, way back in 1960, Motown Records Corporation was founded. Berry Gordy had gotten his start helping to write hit songs for Jackie Wilson in the late ‘50s. With those earnings, in April 1959, Gordy and his sister Gwen founded Anna Records. Later that year he purchased a photography studio at 2648 West […]
