John Clark's Great American Music Experience

Producer and entrepreneur Barry Gordy was the mastermind behind Motown, a hit-making music empire that rivaled the success of the major record labels and even the Beatles in the mid-1960s. Co-founder Smokey Robinson had the first hit with Shop Around in 1961 and went on to produce and write for Mary Wells (My Guy), the Marvelettes, Marvin Gaye and the Temptations (My Girl). The team of Holland, Dozier and Holland had the magic touch for many hits by Martha & the Vandellas and the Four Tops and an incredible ten chart-toppers for the Supremes. Motown started Stevie Wonder out as a Ray Charles imitator but by decade’s end he was writing and producing his own hits, like I Was Made to Love Her. The Four Tops gave us two iconic hits with Can’t Help Myself and Reach Out (I’ll Be There) and Marvin Gaye hit all the right notes on one of the biggest national hits of the decade, I Heard it Through the Grapevine. With the success of Motown in the sixties, black music full entered the American mainstream and left behind a trail of unforgettable hits.

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