Describe the Motown Style. Mention at least four musical or extra-musical characteristics and cite examples from the lecture when possible.

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We can say that the Motown sound was the sound of the 1960s in the United States. It really impacted the music industry and was streamed through radio stations across the United States.

Berry Gordy III was the founder of the Motown record company in Detroit, Michigan. When he met fabulous singer Jackie Wilson, he started to write some songs for him. Later, he discovered singer Smoke Robinson in 1957, and that represented the beginning of the Motown sound, a combination of Rythm and Blues, gospel, and soul music, full of vocal harmonies, and danceable style that really drove people wild when the first songs were played on the radio.

In 1960, Berry changed the name of his studio recording to "Hitsville USA, and the journey to success began. In the following years, Motown Records had signed artists like Marvin Gayne, Smokey Robinson, Jackie Wilson, Steve Wonder, the Supremes, and The Temptations.