Any year of the 1960s holds its fair share of prestige and regard in Motown history. And the last four volumes of Hip-O-Select’s series (chronicling 1961 through 1965) have showcased that with a ...

Hip-O Select's latest in its exhaustive series of singles collections gathers all of Motown's sides from 1969, a tumultuous and transitional year for both the label and its (soon to be former) Detroit ...

Hip-O Select continues to collect every Motown single, here presenting the label's output from 1968, a year in which the company moved to a downtown office, Berry Gordy left Detroit for Los Angeles, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It is difficult to think of a more impossible task than attempting to rate the 60 all-time greatest Motown songs. Founded in 1959 ...

Fifty years ago this January, a budding young songwriter and record producer named Berry Gordy founded a small record label in Detroit. Tamla Records soon became Motown Record Corporation, and Gordy's ...

Casual Motown fans look away. This is not for you. Tune to WOMC instead; they’ll play “Baby Love” in five minutes. In fact, Hip-O Select deserves its own wing in the Detroit Historical Museum for the ...

He’s just launched his own record label, Stevie Wonder says he’ll always be part of Motown. “Even though I have left Motown, I never leave Motown. That’s Detroit,” Wonder, 70 — who signed to Motown as ...

Nobody can tell a good story about Berry Gordy Jr. better than Berry Gordy Jr. And the bad ones? Well, some of them are even in “Motown: The Musical,” or at least Gordy alludes to them. Gordy founded ...

It is difficult to think of a more impossible task than attempting to rate the 60 all-time greatest Motown songs. Founded in 1959 by Berry Gordy, not only has the label — originally a small ...

The Miracles “You’ve Really Got a Hold on Me” Remarkably, one of the Miracles’ biggest hits began life as a single B-side. In November 1962, “Happy Landing,” a nondescript up-tempo number featuring a ...