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The Mowtown Historical Museum is located in Detroit and today stands as a tribute to those earlier days of music magic. Motown"s founder, Berry Gordy jr, bought the two-story house in 1959 when he was a songwriter with ambitions of managing singers. The house was named "Hitsville USA," and by the 1960s the company was flourishing with seven more houses and scores of top music acts.

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Today, this Michigan Historic Site remains very much like it did in the early "60s. The exhibit showcases three important aspects of Motown Records" success: the "Man," the "Business," and the "Music." The first floor explores the modest 1964 offices and tape library filled with reel-to-reels, company manuals, and newspaper clippings. The second floor reflects Berry Gordy"s 1959-60 apartment where he and his Motown staff would spend all night packing records to ship off hot releases. Finally, the museum"s most prized artifact, Studio A, is a reminder of the "Sound of Young America," as fans see where such mega hits as "Stop In The Name Of Love," "Dancin" In The Streets," and "My Girl" were recorded.


Diana Ross and the Supremes, Smokey Robinson and the Miracles, Martha and the Vandellas, The Temptations, The Four Tops, Marvin Gaye, Stevie Wonder, and The Jackson Five all recorded in this studio before it became the Motown Historical Museum in 1985.

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