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Rhythm and Blues Singer. Best remembered as the bass singer for the famed-influential Motown vocal group, The Temptations. Born David Melvin English in Montgomery, Alabama, his stage name Franklin came from his mother's surname, Franklin. Nicknamed Blue by friends and fellow singers because he liked everything blue. He...

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Susan Poorman
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What’s Going On is the eleventh studio album by American soul singer Marvin Gaye. It was released on May 21, 1971, by the Motown Records subsidiary label Tamla. Recorded between 1970 and 1971 in sessions at Hitsville U.S.A., Golden World, United Sound Studios in Detroit, and at The Sound Factory in West Hollywood, California, it was Gaye’s first album to credit him as producer and to credit Motown’s in-house session musicians, known as the Funk Brothers.
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28K views · 8.8K likes | MissMissyPhillly🎼🎹🎸 on Instagram: "Marvin Gaye (Singer, songwriter) was born on April 2nd 1939. What’s Going On is the eleventh studio album by American soul singer Marvin Gaye. It was released on May 21, 1971, by the Motown Records subsidiary label Tamla. Recorded between 1970 and 1971 in sessions at Hitsville U.S.A., Golden World, United Sound Studios in Detroit, and at The Sound Factory in West Hollywood, California, it was Gaye’s first album to credit him as…

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Eva Orozco-Foree
Remembering Barbara McNair: Forgotten Motown artist and groundbreaking black entertainer | Dangerous Minds Barbara Mcnair, African American Actors, Number 27, Tamla Motown, Ornament Craft, Black Actresses, Sean Penn, Black Entertainment, Vintage Black Glamour

When career opportunities for black women began to increase on television and in the movies during the 1960s, beautiful singer/actress Barbara McNair, all but forgotten today, was one of the fastest rising young African-American talents. After getting a break appearing on Arthur Godfrey’s Talent Scouts in the 1950s and working her way up through the show biz ranks, in 1962 McNair took over from Diahann Carroll, the original lead, in Richard Rodgers’ Broadway musical No Strings—an interracial…

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