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Pre-Motown: The Earliest Music Of Berry Gordy Jr

Berry Gordy Jr is immortalized as the founder ofand guiding force behind Motown Records, the hugely successful independent record company in Detroit that brought us the Supremes, Temptations, Miracles, Marvelettes, Four Tops, Marvin Gaye, Stevie Wonder and many other Ramp;B superstars of the 1960's and beyond.

This week Joel Najman's My Place program looks at the rarely heard earliest songwriting efforts of Berry Gordy Jr dating back to the pre-Motown1950's.

Playlist

You Can't Hurry Love
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Album no album name - 45rpm single
Record Label Motown 1097

Thrill Of Love
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Album no album name - 45rpm single
Record Label Old Town 1044

My Love Is Coming Down
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Album no album name - 45rpm single
Record Label Federal 12310

Reet Petite (The Finest Girl You Ever Want To Meet)
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Album no album name - 45rpm single
Record Label Brunswick 55024

Lonely Teardrops
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Album no album name - 45rpm single
Record Label Brunswick 55105

That's Why (I Love You So)
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Album no album name - 45rpm single
Record Label Brunswick 55121

Tammy
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Album no album name - 45rpm single
Record Label Coral 6185

Come To Me
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Album no album name - 45rpm single
Record Label Tamla 101

You Got What It Takes
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Album no album name - 45rpm single
Record Label United Artists 185

I Love The Way You Love
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Album no album name - 45rpm single
Record Label United Artists 208

Got A Job
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Album no album name - 45rpm single
Record Label End 1016

Bad Girl
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Album no album name - 45rpm single
Record Label Motown G-1/2

All I Could Do Was Cry
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Album no album name - 45rpm single
Record Label Argo 5359

Jim Dandy Got Married
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Album no album name - 45rpm single
Record Label Atlantic 1136

Money (That's What I Want)
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Album no album name - 45rpm single
Record Label Tamla 54023

Joel has been a part of Vermont's radio scene since 1964. He began his career at WIPS in Ticonderoga, New York. In 1965, he moved to WFAD in Middlebury, Vermont, where he attended Middlebury College. Over the years, Joel worked at radio stations WJOY, WQCR, WDOT, WDEV and WVAA where he served at various times as Morning Announcer, Program Director and News Director.
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