This American female singing group came out with lots of memorable hits. They were at the top of the acts with Motown Records during the 60s. The Supremes had a likeable and bouncy sound and had 12 number one songs on the Billboard Hot 100. The Supremes originally began as the Primettes in Detroit, Michigan back in 1951. In the mid-60s when they were on top the Supremes actually rivaled the Beatles for popularity around the globe. It was their great success which paved the way for future R&B and soul musicians to find success.
The founding members of the Supremes were Florence Ballard, Mary Wilson, Diana Ross, and Betty McGlown all of whom came from the same public housing project Brewster-Douglass in Detroit, Michigan. When the group signed
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They toured the world and had fans everywhere they went. They also recorded songs for motion picture soundtracks and appeared in the movie “Beach Ball” in 1965.
The Supremes first single came out in 1963 “When the Lovelight Starts Shining Through His Eyes”.
In 1964 they came out with “Where Did Our Love Go” and this was followed by four consecutive U.S. number one hits – “Baby Love”, “Come See About Me”, “Stop! In the Name of Love” and “Back in My Arms Again”.
By the end of 1966 they had a string of number one hits among which were “I Hear a Symphony”, “You Can’t Hurry Love”, and “You Keep Me Hangin’ On”. It was this same year that the Supremes came out with their album The Supremes a’ Go-Go which rose right up to the top and became a number one album on the U.S. Billboard 200 knocking off the Beatles album Revolver from the top spot. The album included the singles “You Can’t Hurry Love” and “Love Is Like an Itching in My Heart”.
They began performing in supper clubs like the Copacabana in New York. They went on to appear regularly on TV in shows such as The Della Reese Show, The Ed Sullivan Show, Hullabaloo, and The Hollywood
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Their final number one hit in the 60s was “Someday We’ll Be Together”. The final performance by the group as Diana Ross and the Supremes was in January of 1970 when they performed at the Frontier Hotel in Las Vegas. In the 70s the Supremes without Diana Ross scored such hits as “Up the Ladder to the Roof”, “Stoned Love”, and “Nathan Jones”. Their last Top 20 hit single was released in 1972 “Floy Joy”. Before they disbanded the group gave a farewell concert in June of 1977 at the Drury Lane Theater in London, England. The story of a group like the Supremes was featured in a 1976 movie titled “Sparkle” and had a group called Sister and the Sisters performing as a
About one year later, the Panama Café was shut down by the police due to a shooting scandal. The trio played on at other local venues for a short time until they broke up in 1918. Florence then moved on to join a very successful black group called the "Tennessee Ten". After several years with the "Tennessee Ten", Florence joined a new show called "Dixie to Broadway" in 1924. With her widely recognized theme song, "I'm a Little Blackbird Looking for a Bluebird", the show was a phenomenal success.
Throughout the years, the name of Muscle Shoals has always been affiliated with the rival studio FAME to anyone who isn’t involved in the music recording industry. Today there is a sign on the side of Fame Studios in Muscle Shoals that says “Where it all started”. (Fuqua 5) The establishment of the Shoals recording industry can be credited to Rick Hall and his studio. (Fuqua 5) In 1969 four locally known artist known as the Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section decided to leave their old recording studio that they had worked for called FAME Records, to open up their own recording studio. The group all started their careers with the illustrious house band at Rick Hall’s legendary FAME Recording Studios in Muscle Shoals. They worked with numerous vocal talents: from the likes of Wilson Pickett, Aretha Franklin, Clarence Carter, Arthur Conley and Etta James. (http://www.alamhof.org/inductees/timeline/1995/muscle-shoals-rhythm-section/) Once they all decided to depart from the label, they brainstormed on how would they differentiate themselves from other studios and make a name for them...
This paper will be an updated version of my last paper which talked about a portion of Barry Gordy's background, Diana Ross and the Supremes, the Four Tops, Smokey Robinson and the Miracles, the Temptations and their start at Motown. How Motown was the first American music label owned by an African-American, the first music label to successfully market black artists to white mainstream audiences. How Motown was responsible for discovering, mentoring, and perfecting a lot of American popular music's most influential and successful artists and the best albums and artists and what new artists have entered Motown.
From the mid-1800s, most black institutions of higher education fielded a group of jubilee singers and/or a vocal quartet to sing spirituals. These groups toured the nation and "represented" the institution outside the local community. One of the earliest and most famous of these groups were the Jubilee Singers from Fisk University. According to Ray Funk, in his essay accompanying the Document compilation EARLY NEGRO VOCAL QUARTETS, there is only one recording from the 1890s extant of an African-American vocal group, the Standard Quartette.
“We stuck to who we were at Motown, and the world came around.” Berry Gordy, the founder of Motown records relayed at the Occidental College’s 125th commencement ceremony in 2007. Motown was “the new voice of America” due to its great impact and influence on the music industry and society. Numerous events were happening in America at that time and Berry Gordy identified several of these factors to target the music of Motown and its artists to young audiences in specific ways. There were various social, musical and cultural factors that were critically important and of these factors, Gordy identified the segregation and the civil rights movement, the music and cultural aspects of the black community at that time.
In the summer of 1950, they went on tour, performing for live audiences to prove that the show would work. Well, as you know, the rest is television history!*P**BR*Desi made the first 5,000 dollars spent into millions in just four years. He convinced the show's sponsor, Phillip Morris, that Lucy having a baby on the show would give them great publicity. He was right: the birth of Little Ricky drew 44 million viewers (the swearing in of the President that year only drew 22 million), and the story made headlines everywhere across America. With Desi as a successful executive, and head of the couple's production company, DesiLu, Arnaz pioneered a new way of producing TV shows, shooting each episode of I
Motown Celebrated a quarter century, the 1983 TV special Motown 25: Yesterday, Today, Forever featured most of Motown’s original superstars and hailed, as Gaye said during his performance, “Twenty-five years of climbing and building and opening doors and breaking old rules.” That same year, the film and soundtrack album The Big Chill connected with the generation that had grown up with the Motown Sound, boosting Motown’s catalog business to unprecedented levels. With continue success in 1972, Motown moved its headquarters to Los Angeles. This allowed for greater participation in the entertainment industry.
The couple wrote over 100 chart hits together, including the Chiffons' "One Fine Day," the Monkees' "Pleasant Valley Sunday," the Drifters' "Up on the Roof," the Cookies' "Chains" (later covered by the Beatles), Aretha Franklin's "(You Make Me Feel) Like a Natural Woman" and the Crystals' controversial "He Hit Me (and It Felt like a Kiss)."
Motown is not only a nickname for a town, it is also a record label that really got the ball rolling for the crossover in the blending of music, the Civil Rights movement and even culture as we see it today. It may have had its downsides, but many can agree it worked out alright.
The birth of Motown music came to be in a small recording studio aptly named Hitsville, U.S.A. Barry Gordy, who came from a large middle class family had borrowed money in order. The main stage of Motown music came from a small house that had been remodeled into a recording studio, the name of the company was Hitsville, U.S.A. Mr. Gordy had gathered the best jazz and blues players in and Motown was born through his genius. This small but dynamic record company has produced and help make many stars that we all know today such as Diana Ross and the Supreme, The Temptations, Stevie Wonder, and more recently the Jackson 5, Boyz II Men , and Queen Latifah. It is very surprising that both the genre of Motown and Hitsville remind unharmed by racism for the most since Detroit has been historically known for severe racism and segregation. Hitsville U.S.A. was one of the first African American owned record companies, this was just one step in popularizing and taking a step for African’s Americans many talents to become well known and chart topping.
The Marvelettes, The Supremes, Marvin Gaye, The Four Tops, The Drifters, The Temptations, The Miracles, Stevie Wonder, Gladys Knight & the Pips, The Spinners, Aretha Franklin
The present members of the Supreme Court are as follows: William Hubbs Rhenquist, Chief Justice: born 1924 in Wisconsin, graduated Stanford Law School. He was an assistant Attorney General from 1969 till 1971 when President Nixon appointed him to the Court. 1986 President Reagan appointed him Chief Jus...
They were the first group to heavily tour the United States and sporadically tour the rest of the world. This occurred because there was a lack of interest in them Britain. Their success was due to their manager Peter Grant. Peter was able to keep the group moving from place to place and kept the people interested in them. Peter thought that they would work every other year so they would stay in demand. While they were working on their first movie featuring them. This movie was of the group playing their music, which was called, “The Song Remains Playing.”
The Supreme Court was first called to assemble on Feb. 1, 1790, in the Merchants exchange Building in New York City, then the Nation's Capital. Justice Jay happened to be a day late to the first day of court due to transportation problems. I suppose his horse threw a shoe? The Supreme Court spent its first session organizing itself and determining its own powers and duties. The new Justices heard and decided their first actual case in 1792.
...t would be released on a weekly basis. These Top 30 chart surveys listed the top thirty songs of the week and could be found in any record store or department store such as Sentry or K-Mart. Trombley and her staff researched record sales from local stores, and the request lines to see what the kids wanted to listen too. For the music industry, the Big 8’s Top 30 charts were their Bible. These free charts were “eagerly snapped up by groovy teens.” Decorated in bright colors, these charts allowed local children to follow their favorite song on the Top 30 list. In March 1970, “Let it Be” by the Beatles was number one on the charts, fell to number 2 four weeks later, and by May 11th, was completely off the charts. Today, these charts are “pop music memorabilia” and crazy stories have been heard that these Top 30 charts were used as wallpaper in teen’s bedrooms.