VOICE ONE: Welcome to THIS IS AMERICA in VOA Special English. I'm Faith Lapidus. VOICE TWO: And I'm Doug Johnson. American popular music changed forever fifty years ago when Berry Gordy, Junior started a record company in Detroit, Michigan. It grew...
By Larry London Washington 27 April 2007 From the streets of Detroit, a man named Smokey rose to achieve what no one expected. He recorded 36 Top-40 hits during a career with Motown Records that started in 1959, and continues today. A recipient of th...