Soul Deep: The Story of Black Popular Music
Season 1 • Episode 3: The Sound Of Young America: Diana Ross • Watch with subtitles
Episode 3: The Sound Of Young America: Diana Ross
May 21, 2005 • 60 min
This episode is about Motown's golden age from 1959 - 1967. It traces the Detroit label's extraordinary rise from cottage industry to mighty record giant before chronicling its fall from pop innocence. The Motown sound and its incredible flood of 1960s hits unquestionably changed the landscape of pop. With the Supremes, Martha Reeves & the Vandellas, the Temptations, the Four Tops, Smokey Robinson & The Miracles, the label rewrote the cultural rule book and created THE sound of young America.
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