MUCO 120 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Berry Gordy, Motown, Doo-Wop
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Toned down certain elements of black style music. Also created an atmosphere and an image. Sent performed to the motown nishing school. More with tin pan alley and brill building pop. Correspond with two syllables of heat wave. Berry encouraged people to write hits, if they didn"t he would give the group to another writer who might give them a hit (formulaic approach) The way you do the things you do . Rougher voice (soul) that went well with the smoother sound of the temptations. Got berry to loosen the reigns for him within motown. Two lead vocal parts woven together throughout the song. Formed he 5 pennies with his brothers. John got a record deal with motown. Motown had them sign rights away to songs they wrote. John does not get royalties from that motown record. His wife pamela is the only living relative of one of the tennessee chocolate drops.
