In a modest house on West Grand Boulevard in Detroit, a former boxer and autoworker named Berry Gordy built a hit factory that would change American music forever. He called it Motown — and its motto was “The Sound of Young America.”
Hitsville U.S.A.
From that small studio, nicknamed Hitsville U.S.A., came an astonishing run of number-one records. The Supremes, The Temptations, Stevie Wonder, Marvin Gaye, Smokey Robinson and the Four Tops turned out songs so polished and joyful they seemed impossible to resist.
More Than Music
Motown did something few had managed before: it brought Black artists into millions of American homes across every racial line, at the height of the civil rights era. Songs like “My Girl,” “Ain’t No Mountain High Enough” and “What’s Going On” became the soundtrack of a generation reaching for something better.
Decades later, that unmistakable Motown groove still fills dance floors and weddings around the world — proof that a great song truly never grows old.