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Motown 25: Yesterday, Today, Forever is a 1983 television special, produced by Suzanne de Passe for Motown (founded in January 1959), to commemorate its 25th anniversary. The program was taped before a live audience at the Pasadena Civic Auditorium in Pasadena, California on March 25, 1983, [1] and broadcast on NBC on May 16.
Motown was the most successful soul music label, with a net worth of $61 million. Between 1960 and 1969, Motown had 79 songs reach the top-ten of the Billboard Hot 100. In March 1965, Berry Gordy and Dave Godin agreed to license the Tamla Motown label name for future UK releases through EMI Records Limited.
Since Motown 25 was intended to showcase the label’s greatest hits, Mischer and executive producer Suzanne de Passe initially banned every artist (from Marvin Gaye to the Temptations to Diana ...
The Best of Michael Jackson is a compilation of American singer and recording artist Michael Jackson's greatest hits and was released by his former record company Motown on August 28, 1975 (just one day before Jackson's 17th birthday). It peaked at number 44 on the U.S. R&B albums chart.
The special is a musical revue starring Motown's two most popular groups at the time, Diana Ross & the Supremes and The Temptations. Containing a combination of showtunes , specially prepared numbers, and popular Motown hits, the special was taped before a live studio audience in September 1968 and originally broadcast December 9, 1968 on NBC ...
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Motown briefly returned to feature films with Berry Gordy's The Last Dragon, which became Motown's final theatrical feature. In 1986, Motown Productions had inked an agreement with video distributor MCA Home Video in an effort to expand the direct-to-video market with a series of "Motown Video Originals" mini-movie series. [1]