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to TMG 1238 - 1981 |
to TMG 1372 - 1984 |
to ZB 42687 - 1988 |
to ZB 43781 - 1990 |
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starting Tamla Records in January 1959, Berry Gordy founded a second label,
Motown Records, in September 1959. Also in 1959, Gordy purchased the property that would become Motown's Hitsville U.S.A. studio. The photography studio located in the back of the property was modified into a small recording studio and the Gordys moved into the second floor living quarters. Within a few years, Motown would occupy several neighboring houses with administrative offices, mixing, mastering and rehearsal studios. Despite losing Holland–Dozier–Holland, Norman Whitfield, and a number of its other hitmakers by 1975, Motown still had a number of successful artists during the late 1970s and 1980s. In Britain Tamla and Motown were combined, in the familiar EMI-distributed Tamla Motown label. The Tamla part was dropped in October 1976, with the release of TMG 1053, and a new label design was adopted. |
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