Motown

Hitsville USA on West Grand Boulevard. Berry Gordy's assembly line, the Funk Brothers in the Snakepit, Holland-Dozier-Holland, the Supremes and the Temptations and Marvin Gaye, the charm school, and the sound that crossed over.

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17 moments in this segment.

1. 1964 - The Supremes - Come See About Me. The Supremes' third consecutive American number one for Motown.
2. 1964-06-17 - The Supremes - Where Did Our Love Go. The Supremes' breakthrough number one, the first of five consecutive US chart-toppers.
3. 1964-09-17 - The Supremes - Baby Love. Holland-Dozier-Holland's second number one for the Supremes and the record that made Motown a global pop machine.
4. 1965 - The Supremes - Stop! In The Name Of Love. Holland-Dozier-Holland's fourth number one for the group, from More Hits by The Supremes.
5. 1966-09-25 - The Supremes perform You Can't Hurry Love on The Ed Sullivan Show. Diana Ross and the Supremes deliver the Holland-Dozier-Holland hit on American prime time.
6. 1967-04-29 - Aretha Franklin - Respect. Aretha's rewrite of Otis Redding's song, cut at Atlantic and turned into an anthem of self-assertion.
7. 1969-12-14 - The Jackson 5 perform I Want You Back on The Ed Sullivan Show. Motown's new signings, with a ten-year-old Michael Jackson, make their Sullivan debut.
8. 1971-01-20 - Marvin Gaye - What's Going On. Motown's official video for the 1971 single Berry Gordy tried to block, which became the label's turn towards social commentary.
9. 1972-12-09 - Bill Withers interviewed by Pierre Lattes on Rockenstock. The soul singer talks about his songs, love and friendship on French television.
10. 1973-01-13 - Stevie Wonder performs Superstition on Soul Train. Wonder plays the Talking Book single on Don Cornelius's show as it climbed to number one.
11. 1973 - Stevie Wonder - Superstition, 1973. Archive performance footage from Wonder's Innervisions-era touring year, licensed from Reelin' In The Years.
12. 1974-01-23 - Stevie Wonder performs Superstition on Musikladen. Wonder plays Superstition for Radio Bremen's Musikladen during his January 1974 German visit.
13. 1974 - Kool and the Gang perform Jungle Boogie on Soul Train. The New Jersey band play their Wild and Peaceful hit on Soul Train.
14. 1974 - The Soul Train Line dances to War's Ballero. The show's signature two-line dance sequence, filmed during Soul Train's 1974 season.
15. 1974-12-14 - The Isley Brothers perform Summer Breeze on Soul Train. The expanded 3+3 lineup, with Ernie Isley on guitar, perform their Seals and Crofts reworking.
16. 1983-03-25 - Michael Jackson at Motown 25, 1983 - full footage. The televised Motown 25 special where Jackson performed Billie Jean and first did the moonwalk in public, the single performance most credited with his ascent to global superstardom.
17. 2019-07-05 - Jacob Collier Deconstructs a Stevie Wonder Classic. Vox Earworm episode in which the musician takes apart the harmony and voicings of a Stevie Wonder record.