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Detroit record label
Answer for the clue "Detroit record label ", 6 letters:
motown
Alternative clues for the word motown
Word definitions for motown in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
recording label launched 1960 by Berry Gordy Jr., from Mo(tor) Town , perhaps based on Motor City , a nickname for Detroit attested by 1911.
Usage examples of motown.
Outspan was very embarrassed up in his bedroom trying to strum along to the Motown time.
Italian food and the level of noise, a mixture of youthful voices and Motown coming from the jukebox in the back of the room.
After she left for Motown was when Mommy Terror started locking troublesome, hyperkinetic me in the basement.
Gentle's claque of doo-wopping Motown cabinet-puppets have purple dresses and matching lipstick and nail polish, and bouffants so blindingly Afrosheened that there had been special lighting and film-speed problems in the custodial closet: SEC.
Her pleasure was to sing along with Motown recordings and do the steps and gestures accompanying the Supremes, Martha and the Vandellas, Gladys Knight and the Pips, Syreeta Wright, all the oldies.
I curse the driver but an old Motown song from the sixties, maybe it's the Supremes, plays muted, up front, the sound blocked by the fiberglass partition.