Motown was at its height in the 1970s, but what was the song from the genre with the longest number one reign of that time?

Pretty much every big funk and soul artist came through Motown, but which one of them had the most number ones?

*Sylvia Moy, the Motown songwriter who collaborated on such Stevie Wonder classics as “My Cherie Amour” and “I Was Made to Love Her,” has died. She was 78. According to the Detroit Free Press, Moy ...

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A new book argues that Motown was a step in the evolution of the American popular song, a tradition reaching back to songwriters like Irving... Motown: Not the Same Old Songs Motown: Not the Same Old ...

In her decades as part of the Motown family, Pat Cosby has spent countless hours inside Hitsville, U.S.A. This time was strikingly different. It didn’t take long for the tears to start flowing last ...

Subscribe to The St. Louis American‘s free weekly newsletter for critical stories, community voices, and insights that matter. Sign up Songwriting legend Norman Whitfield has died at the age of 65. He ...

The ’60s saw several new musical movements. From the U.K. came a host of foreign heartthrobs in what was dubbed “The British Invasion,” with the forefathers of that movement being the Beatles. Their ...

In the 1960s, there were two giant musical movements that helped shape not only the decade but also the next 50 years of modern music. Those are the sounds that came from the British Invasion and from ...