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Stevie Wonder's new Motown album, Songs in the Key of Life, took 26 months to produce. Last year Wonder took time out to sign the fattest contract in pop history (seven years and $13 million). The most eagerly awaited item of the year, Songs landed in the No. 1 position its first week on the charts. With sales already totaling a phenomenal 1.7 million, the album could well earn Motown most of its $13 million back before year...
More than a year after signing Singer-Composer Stevie Wonder to a $13 million contract, the folks at Motown Records were getting nervous. A colossal 60-ft. by 265-ft. billboard in New York's Times Square had been heralding the coming of his new album for three months, but Wonder kept fiddling away at his unfinished work. Last week the wait ended as Stevie, clad in Lone Ranger rig, welcomed critics and reporters to North Brookfield, Mass., for a preview of Songs in the Key of Life. The record just might earn a silver bullet on the charts...
...Horns. Though hardly an overnight sensation (they grew out of a mildly successful 1960s outfit called the Volcanos), the Trammps are the latest example of what has come to be known on records as the Philadelphia sound. That music today dominates the rhythm-and-blues field much the way Motown did in the 1960s. The Philadelphia sound, notable for its honking horns and syrupy strings, is most familiar perhaps from the hits of the O'Jays, Billy Paul and Harold Melvin and the Blue Notes. All of these performers record for the mini-giant of the city...
Billy Dee's fortunes have risen rapidly in the past five years, since Motown Records Mogul Berry Gordy became his manager and teamed him with another Gordy protegee, Diana Ross...
...equipped patrol cars have quashed what was once a standard form of recreation for many Michigan youths. At the tame speed limit of 50, the expanse of Woodward is now a half-hour drive, past Kentucky Fried Chicken and bullet proof liquor stores, closed automobile factories, the now-deserted Motown records building, Cass Corridor--one of the nation's most crime-infested districts--several middle-class neighborhoods, and Bloomfield Hills, the nation's wealthiest per capita suburb. On a typical ride down Woodward the motorist is not likely to see buses; public transportation has never been a popular cause...