La notable historia del legendario Motown Records se cuenta a través de entrevistas exclusivas con el visionario fundador del sello, Berry Gordy, y muchos de sus artistas superestrellas y figuras creativas, así como actuaciones raras y metraje detrás de escena desenterrado de las bóvedas de Motown y Gordy. archivos personales.
Hosted by Bette Midler, enjoy a musical tribute to the man who wrote some of the most enduring songs in American popular music. Lyricist Hal David and composer Burt Bacharach dominated the pop-music charts in the 1960s and early ’70s, crafting dozens of timeless Top 40 hits.
The tragedy-to-triumph story of Roosevelt Jackson (Robbie Tate-Brickle), a seventeen-year-old honor student coping with the sudden death of his mother (Tami Roman), his tumultuous relationship with his previously estranged father (Chad Coleman), and his own journey to manhood. It's the story of a young man who loses everything and triumphantly finds himself.
Performed on July 2003 Michael McDonald 1. It Keeps You Runnin' 2. Sweet Freedom 3. I Keep Forgettin' 4. I Heard It Through The Grapevine Michael McDonald featuring Ashford & Simpson 5. Ain't No Mountain High Enough 6. Ain't Nothing Like The Real Thing Michael McDonald with Patrick Simmons and Tom Johnston of The Doobie Brothers 7. Black Water 8. Take Me In Your Arms 9. Minute By Minute 10. What A Fool Believes All together 11. Takin' It To The Streets
This special is the second "Night of 100 Stars" to benefit The Actors Fund of America. Edited from a seven-hour live entertainment marathon that was taped February 17, 1985, at New York's Radio City Music Hall, this sequel to the 1982 "Night of 100 Stars" special features 288 celebrities.
Motown 25: Yesterday, Today, Forever is a 1983 television special produced by Suzanne de Passe for Motown Records, The show was also co-written by de Passe along with Ruth Adkins Robinson who would go on to write shows with de Passe for the next 25 years, including the follow up label tributes—through "Motown 40," Buz Kohan was the head writer of the threesome. The program was taped before a live studio audience at the Pasadena Civic Auditorium in Pasadena, California on March 25, 1983,[1] and broadcast on NBC on May 16. Among its highlights were Michael Jackson's performance of "Billie Jean", a Temptations/Four Tops "battle of the bands", Marvin Gaye's inspired speech about black music history and his memorable performance of "What's Going On", a Jackson 5 reunion.
