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all to do with payola in the states if a radio station was s een to be playing say 5 motown records then the radio station would be in trouble so berry gordy and other labels had to have multible labe
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Thanks everybody - been wondering about it for 35 years, answered in about 6 minutes! Top notch.
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You ask a simple question !! Always love the stuff you get back, like going back to school. Great post/replies guys
OK this could get answered pretty quickly by you lot. Here goes...
I've often wondered (usually when daydreaming at work) why The Supremes were on Tamla, The Tops were on Motown, Velvelettes on VIP etc etc...Gordy! Soul!, Rare Earth!..well that one speaks for itself...you get my drift.
Did Berry Gordy draw the artists names out of a hat and just divvy them up?
Are there any particular differences between how the labels were perceived or run? It's not as though particular styles were funnelled through a particular label....or is it? Why couldn't everything be released through, say, Motown?
Also I wonder, did artists cross over from label to label willy nilly? Can't even think of any who did - wonder who was released on the most labels? Actually I've just checked and Kim Weston's been on Tamla, Gordy and Soul, so...
Over to you...