“Through the recognition of ‘What’s Going On’ Day, we hope to bring awareness to Marvin ... recorded by Gaye with Motown’s Funk Brothers in summer 1970 at both the main Hitsville studio ...

In the late ’50s, a little-known songwriter named Berry Gordy took $800 he scrounged together from family and a few paltry royalty payments to found Tamla Records—better known at Motown Records.

And then came Marvin Gaye’s voice, solo in the hallowed room ... the singer’s live musical director in the early ‘80s. At Hitsville on Friday, he talked of being blown away when first ...

But the bargain is getting to see effective stage versions of the formidable Temptations, the conscientious Marvin Gaye, the glamorous ... that became known as Hitsville U.S.A. He discovers ...

“This Marvin Gaye acetate was mixed in with a stack of ... The sessions at both Hitsville and Golden World Record studios were, in truth, chaotic, often not starting until midnight.

Though you wouldn’t know his name, an obscure knob-twister named Lawrence (L.T.) Horn was as important as Marvin Gaye, Smokey Robinson ... that rolled off the Hitsville USA assembly line from ...

“Hitsville: The Making of Motown” is the ... including layer-by-layer breakdowns of “My Girl” and Marvin Gaye’s “What’s Going On,” drawn from the original studio tracks.

Marvin Gaye's 1971 Motown-recorded masterpiece ... Tickets are $50 and will support Hitsville U.S.A.'s preservation efforts and the cost of admission will include a limited-edition item from ...

He set up his Detroit headquarters in a modest house emblazoned with an immodest sign, “Hitsville U.S.A ... Michael Jackson, and Marvin Gaye – to name just a few – and Motown became ...

"An early screening of the Hitsville documentary inspired me so ... including Brian Courtney Wilson's soulful cover of Marvin Gaye's "Inner City Blues (Make Me Wanna Holler)," Gene Moore's soul ...

By Mike Barnes Senior Editor Janis Hunter Gaye, the second wife of Motown legend Marvin Gaye and the inspiration ... during a 1973 recording session at Hitsville West in Los Angeles for his ...