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...president of Motown (for motor town) Records, Gordy has thrust his young company high among the nation's independent recording firms. With predicted 1967 sales of $30 million, Motown is notable on several counts. For one, Gordy is a Negro in a business where the management is almost all white. For another, he has firmly an chored his enterprise in Detroit, far from such recording meccas as New York and Los Angeles. Most important, he has developed interrelated subsidiaries whose systematic control of Motown performers, publicity and recordings is unique in the industry...
...Mamas and The Papas. The festival's $430,000 profit from ticket sales and television rights will be distributed "for the cause of music" at the discretion of a board of governors that includes Beatle Paul McCartney, Paul Simon of Simon and Garfunkel, and Singer and Motown Records Executive Smokey Robinson...
...SUPREMES AT THE COPA (Motown). In songs like Baby Love and Stop! In the Name of Love, Florence, Diana and Mary show why they are perhaps the best-known evangels of the Detroit Sound (TIME, March 4). But the Sound is frequently abandoned as the girls adopt some Broadway airs (I Am Woman, Make Someone Happy...
Size-Four Stompers. Motown Records is currently promoting a nine-year-old wailer named Little Lisa, who, they boast, "will become the next Shirley Temple." Decca Records has a prepubescent dreamboat named Keith Green, 12, who has been signed to a five-year contract. He has already written 50 rock-'n'-roll songs, which he croons in a voice trembling with conviction ("Youuu are the girlll/ I am the boyyy/ Yes, it seems we're in loove...
...Strains. The sound of the Supremes is a blend of gospel and rock, Detroit Symphony strings and Willow Run blues, which even the girls can't describe. "Maybe the Motown sound is just love and warmth," says Mary. "Like a family, we all work together, fight and kiss all day long. You see someone you haven't seen in an hour, and you've got to hug and kiss...