Turning $800 into MILLIONS - The MOTOWN Story

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What are your favorite Motown songs?

[@curly_wyn]

Well, I especially love The Supremes, The Temptations and Stevie Wonder. Some of my favorites are: Where Did Our Love Go, My Girl, I Was Made to Love Here and Baby Love, as well as Signed, Sealed, Delivered and The Way You Do the Things You Do! :)

[@jamesshaeffer6716]

TEARS OF A CLOWN AND TRACKS OF MY TEARS 😊 WILLIAM SMOKEY JOE ROBINSON WAS IS AND WILL ALWAYS BE "THE KING" OF THE MOTOWN ERA!!!!!!!!!!!!! 😊

[@raygaudet3183]

I Wish It would Rain, When She Was My Girl, Hitchhike, It Should Have Been Me, Pucker Up Buttercup, Can’t Help Myself, just to name a few.

[@HermanMcghee]

I wish it would rain was was one of my favorite songs boss music.❤❤😂😂​@@raygaudet3183

[@HermanMcghee]

What

[@volcaniadread]

I was actually looking for some information about the motown's recording sound but I loved your video! thank you very much 🙏 ...I've found their production process very interesting and fitting for today's Spotify thing. thanks again!

[@MusicTheoriesChannel]

Happy to hear that! Thanks for watching!

[@Theredeyedjedi]

Subscribed!

[@Kongohh]

Also subscribed, Im shocked she has so few people, her content his truly high quality!! Ps had to correct my dyslexic writing

[@VincentPaterno-hs2fv]

I've been a fan of the Motown sound since my childhood in the the 1960s, and have uncovered so many more of its gems thanks to KZbin. Perhaps my all-time Motown top ten, in no particular order, would be "Stop! In the Name of Love" (Supremes), "One More Heartache" (Marvin Gaye), "Never Had a Dream Come True" (Stevie Wonder), "Baby I Need Your Loving" (Four Tops), "More Love" (Smokey Robinson & the Miracles), "Dancing in the Street" (Martha & the Vandellas), "The Hunter Gets Captured By the Game" (Marvelettes), "Cloud Nine" (Temptations), "Bye Bye Baby" (Mary Wells) and the overlooked "My Smile Is Just a Frown Turned Upside Town" (Carolyn Crawford). I think some of Motown's soul left the label when it abandoned Detroit for Los Angeles...nevertheless, thank you, Berry Gordy.

[@MusicTheoriesChannel]

Great tunes!

[@zakUSDedelman]

I’m a biz geek. Brilliant job on this one. Thanks a trillion.

[@MusicTheoriesChannel]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@dominicesteban3174]

You describe this video as a "doozy" in terms of length, but it was worth listening every minute. This is a fantastic complement to the Funk Brothers film ("Standing in the Shadows of Motown"). It'll require a relisten as the content is so rich and some of the musical examples/sources are worth follow-up. Excellent content: so shocking that the algorithm didn't push this to the Rick Beato-type audience.

[@MusicTheoriesChannel]

That's a massive compliment - thank you so much!

[@Guitar6ty]

Favourite Motown song has to be "Whats going on" but really all of the songs were well written and performed by top class musicians.

[@MusicTheoriesChannel]

Motown musicians were so talented!

[@DavidUK64]

Excellent! Thanks

[@marvinwhittaker]

Marvin Gaye and Jr Walker was among my favorite Motown Artists.

[@MusicTheoriesChannel]

Nice!!

[@BunnEFartz]

Being a hard rock, heavy metal and classic rock listener I find it ironic that these black musicians who were marginalized and segregated throughout their careers are the very musicians, along with the neo classicists to a lesser extent, who are credited as being the very roots of rock music today. Most never got their due until long after they were gone.

[@MusicTheoriesChannel]

and some never got their due! I'd love to know more about some of your favorite bands if you're willing to share. Thanks for watching and commenting 🖤

[@BunnEFartz]

@@MusicTheoriesChannel I have a friend who is a big Motown fan so I sent him a link to this video... he should enjoy it. For me, Deep Purple will always be my favorite band. I also like Pink Floyd, Zeppelin, BTO, Iron Maiden and in these times Greta Van Fleet, Monster Truck, Stone Temple Pilots and others. I'm also a big fan of Gordon Lightfoot, but that is just our little secret, OK :) As I said, this is my favorite channel. Even though I don't listen to Taylor Swift, I thoroughly enjoyed you breakdown and analysis of her song. The story behind the song, the story behind the music is something that always fascinates me.

[@MusicTheoriesChannel]

​ @Bunn E. Fartz I so appreciate you being here! Our tastes overlap a little bit as well. I'm really glad you enjoyed the TS analysis. I'm actually not the biggest fan of hers, believe it or not. Still, I've listened to quite a bit of her catalogue just because and like you, I enjoy a great song and love to know the story behind it! I would choose Zeppelin any day haha.

[@BunnEFartz]

@@MusicTheoriesChannel Ah the great debate :) I love Zeppelin, they are one of my favorites as I think Jimmy Page as an arranger and producer was second to none. But for me it will always be Deep Purple first, ( btw I met the guys in the band twice), as they had a unique and expanded sound that has never been duplicated because they had that great howling organ that coloured their sound.

[@ArturdeSousaRocha]

Kind of sounds to me like Berry Gordy Jr. started as an activist and ended up as a greedy businessman. I see this happen a lot. But I may be misjudging him big time.

[@MusicTheoriesChannel]

Depends on how you look at it 😅