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The Hitsville U.S.A. building in Detroit "Hitsville U.S.A." is the nickname given to Motown's first headquarters and recording studio. The house (formerly a photographers' studio) is located at 2648 West Grand Boulevard in Detroit near the New Center area of the city. Motown founder Berry Gordy bought the house in 1959.
Amid the Motown Museum’s growing global profile, the Detroit institution has a new feather in its cap: a spot on the national airwaves. A weekly music show, “Live from Motown Museum,” is ...
(CBS DETROIT) - The Motown Museum revealed new renderings of what to expect inside the highly anticipated expansion project. The nearly 40,000-square-foot project, which will include a cafe and ...
On Detroit’s west side, there’s a little house that transformed American culture and the music world at large. And so the Motown Museum has become a go-to destination for visitors from across ...
Esther Gordy Edwards (née Gordy; April 25, 1920 – August 24, 2011) [1] was a staff member and associate of her younger brother Berry Gordy's Motown label during the 1960s. [2] Edwards created the Motown Museum, Hitsville U.S.A., by preserving the label's Detroit studio. She also served as president of the Motown Museum and has been called ...
The Hitsville U.S.A. Motown building, at 2648 West Grand Boulevard in Detroit, Motown's headquarters from 1959 to 1968, which became the Motown Historical Museum in 1985 [13] In 1957, Gordy met Smokey Robinson , a local seventeen-year-old singer fronting a vocal harmony group called the Matadors.
The latest batch of architectural renderings shows a revamped look for the 40,000-square-foot building rising behind Hitsville, U.S.A., in Detroit.
The recording studio was located in Detroit, Michigan, United States. [1] The studio's national hits included "Oh How Happy" by Shades of Blue and "(Just Like) Romeo and Juliet" by The Reflections. The early, pre-Motown songs of Edwin Starr, such as "Agent Double-O-Soul", were recorded at the Golden World studio.