To celebrate 50 years of motown, you can choose the tracklisting for the new Universal Music album - MOTOWN 50 - due for release this December. Just get on Poll The People: Top 100 Albums, Films, Books and pick your Top 5 hits, see the tracklisting as it evolves and meet other Motown fans!
Who are people going for? Jackson 5's ABC and I'll Be There definately in my Top 5!
Motown 50 - Jackson 5 In Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame Museum
Michael Jackson's former record label, Motown will celebrate it's 50th anniversary this year. The official celebration will kick off on January 12, 2008.
Motown and "Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame Museum" launches a new exhibition today containing items from the Chicago Motown Museum. Among others some Jackson 5 and Michael Jackson memorablia can be seen there.
New Motown Compilations
As a part of the "Motown 50" celebration, Michael Jackson's former record label will release new compilations both from the King of Pop and the Jackson 5:
January 27, 2008: Jackson 5 - Love Songs
February, 2008: Hello World - The Motown Solo Collection
Upcoming Events
01/01/09: Jackson 5 In The Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame Museum
01/02/09: LaToya Jackson In Celebrity Big Brother (UK)
01/02/09: Thriller Live In The West End
01/12/09: Motown 50 Celebration Kick Off
01/12/09: Thriller (CD release)
01/13/09: - TV2 (Hungary): The Jacksons - An American Dream
01/20/09: CosBaby - Michael Jackson figures (Merchandising release)
01/20/09: CosBaby - Michael Jackson Thriller Student figure (Merchandising release)
01/27/09: Jackson 5 - Love Songs (CD release)
02/01/09: Michael Jackson - Hello World (CD release)
02/17/09: Johnson vs. Jackson (Case hearing)
02/19/09: Ayscough & Marrar vs. Jackson (Case hearing)
02/20/09: MIcon - Billie Jean figure (Merchandising release)
04/21/09: Michael Jackson Auction
GREATEST MOTOWN SONGS POLL
The competition to decide the tracklisting for the Motown 50 album has now closed. Thanks to everyone who voted ! We will be in touch with the winners of the free prize draw shortly..
The tracklisting for the MOTOWN 50 album has now been confirmed…..see below. The tracklisting is slightly different to our Top 50 Songs as we were unable to clear some of the tracks and we also had so many Diana Ross / Supremes tracks that we had to exclude a few of them or one of the CDs would have been a Diana Ross / Supremes Best Of !!
Marvin Gaye – I Heard It Through The Grapevine
Diana Ross – Ain’t No Mountain High Enough
The Supremes – You Can’t Hurry Love
Marvin Gaye – What’s Going On
Stevie Wonder - Superstition
Diana Ross – I’m Still Waiting
Martha Reeves & The Vandellas – Dancing In The Street
The Supremes – Baby Love
Smokey Robinson & The Miracles – The Tears Of A Clown
Jackson 5 – I Want You Back
Four Tops – Reach Out, I’ll Be There
The Temptations – Papa Was A Rollin’ Stone
Smokey Robinson & The Miracles – The Tracks Of My Tears
Lionel Richie & Diana Ross – Endless Love
Marvin Gaye – Let’s Get It On
The Temptations – My Girl
Jimmy Ruffin – What Becomes Of The Brokenhearted
The Supremes – Stop! In The Name Of Love
The Elgins – Heaven Must Have Sent You
Diana Ross – Upside Down
Stevie Wonder - Masterblaster
Jackson 5 – ABC
Four Tops – I Can’t Help Myself (Sugar Pie, Honey Bunch)
Commodores – Easy
Diana Ross & The Supremes – Reflections
The Temptations – Get Ready
Lionel Richie – All Night Long (All Night)
Diana Ross – Love Hangover
R. Dean Taylor – There’s A Ghost In My House
Edwin Starr – War
Mary Wells – My Guy
Stevie Wonder – Sir Duke
Michael Jackson – Got To Be There
Commodores – Nightshift
The Velvelettes – Needle In A Haystack
Martha Reeves & The Vandellas – Nowhere To Run
Stevie Wonder – Signed, Sealed, Delivered (I’m Yours)
Rick James – Super Freak
Commodores – Brick House
The Temptations – Treat Her Like A Lady
Martha Reeves & The Vandellas – Jimmy Mack
The Miracles– Love Machine
The Isley Brothers – This Old Heart Of Mine (Is Weak For You)
Frank Wilson – Do I Love You (Indeed I Do)
Lionel Richie – My Destiny
Marvin Gaye & Kim Weston – It Takes Two
Smokey Robinson – Being With You
Diana Ross & Marvin Gaye – You Are Everything
The Contours – Do You Love Me
Jr. Walker & The All Stars – Shotgun
The Greatest Motown Songs poll is still live so you can select your Top 5 Motown songs, register your vote and your choices will be entered into the poll. You will also be connected to other members of the Poll The People community who match some or all of your Top 5 choices so you can meet like minded people and discover new gems from the legendary Motown catalogue.
Official Motown 50 website - Motown 50 | Yesterday.Today.Forever
Gordy Guiding Motown's 50th Anniversary
December 05, 2008 04:20 PM ET
Gary Graff, Detroit
With archival releases, documentaries and even a Broadway musical on tap, Berry Gordy, Jr., says there will be nowhere to run and nowhere to hide from the celebration of Motown's 50th anniversary during the coming two years.
Gordy, who founded the Motown empire after securing an $800 loan from his family on Jan. 12, 1959, tells Billboard.com that "I've been fighting to protect the legacy for 50 years, and now it seems that after 50 years we can go and talk about the real deal, what really happened ... and how it happened, my story and everything that goes with it. And I'm just thrilled that I'm here to enjoy now what I couldn't enjoy while I was doing it."
The official Motown 50th celebration kicks off Tuesday (Dec. 9) with the release of "Motown: The Complete No. 1's,", a 10-disc set housed in a package designed to look like the company's original Hitsville U.S.A. headquarters in Detroit. Gordy and former Motown staffer Suzanne DePasse, who won a 1983 Emmy Award for the Motown 25th anniversary TV special, are also producing a documentary about the company that's due to roll out in September.
"It's about me and ... not only what I did and how I did it but how I felt doing it and what it was that happened, from my standpoint," explains Gordy. Among the footage is a videotaped session of one of the company's famed weekly Quality Control meetings, at which staffers argued over whether or not to release the Temptations' "My Girl" as a single.
A Broadway musical about Motown is due to open in 2010, and Gordy says there will also be "long-form, multi-part videos" about the company's history "because there's so much to tell. The documentary is just a two-hour thing."
Universal Music Enterprises, which handles Motown's archival releases, is also planning to support the activity with online podcasts and other special features. More retrospective titles are expected to come out over the course of the celebration, and the Motown Historical Museum in Detroit is planning a series of special events for 2009, including an In Their Own Words series with Motown alumni that will kick off Jan. 12, a Marvin Gaye exhibit in April and a pumped-up version of its annual gala and concert in November.
"It's just a unique situation," Gordy notes, "and I'm the major recipient of that now because I can look back. It's a different kind of enjoyment. I enjoyed making the records. I enjoyed dealing with the people. Now I can look at it a different way and say, 'OK, we did it. We really did it.'"
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