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    Up until around 1968, you WANT the mono version...

    Up until around 1968, you WANT the mono version of most popular music. That includes the Beatles. This is because the production decisions were based on monitoring in mono.
  2. Almost nothing about ANY artist that I've...

    Almost nothing about ANY artist that I've actually witnessed has been true!
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    Drug use was very rare and only very occasional...

    Drug use was very rare and only very occasional pot. I also don't think it had to do with the riots.

    I was told by Bob Dennis that the original plan was to have Brian Holland manage production...
  4. I was one of a group of people who began...

    I was one of a group of people who began collecting things for the RRHOF with the understanding that it was going to be built in San Francisco. When Wenner auctioned off all of our efforts to the...
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    Where did you get the idea it "destroyed most of...

    Where did you get the idea it "destroyed most of the inner city?" I don't remember hearing of any major clubs being harmed.
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    My understanding is that they intend to feature...

    My understanding is that they intend to feature singers and singing groups that were influenced by Gospel but will be aimed directly at the pop market.
  7. Motown artists originally got a fixed weekly...

    Motown artists originally got a fixed weekly salary-like advance and were only charged for that plus session musicians because it was part of the A.F. of M's. national contract. They were not charged...
  8. I don't remember anybody thinking Motown records...

    I don't remember anybody thinking Motown records would even be on the radio five years later.
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    My understanding is that Motown was never the...

    My understanding is that Motown was never the main source of income for the musicians. In the late '60s, Detroit, Chicago, Nashville and New York lost a lot of musicians to LA simply because there...
  10. No, it was all about advancing the artists'...

    No, it was all about advancing the artists' careers as they and their fans grew older. I'm not at all sure that Motown ever profited from just record production. The "majors" I worked with never put...
  11. Motown is easier to understand if you think of it...

    Motown is easier to understand if you think of it as the publicity department of an artist management company.
  12. Detroit and Chicago were the centers of radio...

    Detroit and Chicago were the centers of radio production in the late 1940s. NBC and CBS were in Chicago while ABC was in Detroit. Between performing on live radio and recording for advertising, our...
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    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJssXUbEPKQ...

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJssXUbEPKQ
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    Martha sang in a Gospel group I recorded during...

    Martha sang in a Gospel group I recorded during the mid '70s. She knocked it out of the park before she had a lot of recording experience too!
  15. At the time Motown went union, it was $60/ 3-hour...

    At the time Motown went union, it was $60/ 3-hour session with a 4-song limit for masters and 6 for demos.
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    I visited London in the summer of 1969 and spent...

    I visited London in the summer of 1969 and spent a day with John Reid and John Marshall who were Motown's European team. I explained to them how Motown's quality control system worked and how lots of...
  17. Mike McLean told me our security people showed up...

    Mike McLean told me our security people showed up the following morning with rifles from when they'd served in the army.
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    I was told Tom and Lawrence Horn left to work for...

    I was told Tom and Lawrence Horn left to work for HDH. Around ten years ago, Bob Dennis told me they had run out of money after a year, and everybody moved on.
  19. People confuse fame with financial success. ...

    People confuse fame with financial success.

    Berry wanted Motown to be a Columbia Records and not a Chess or an Atlantic. By his personal measure, it was a failure. By my measure of experience...
  20. Esther Edwards told me that we didn't have any...

    Esther Edwards told me that we didn't have any money for promotion like the majors. We did have the leverage of offering stations an earlier copy of a known artist than their competition in exchange...
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    I remember being told "Where Did Our Love Go" was...

    I remember being told "Where Did Our Love Go" was our first eight-track production. It was released in June of 1964. Throughout 1965 everything was being recorded and mixed in Studio A. In 1966 a...
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    The difference is that Bill Porter wasn't...

    The difference is that Bill Porter wasn't overdubbing anything while, for good or bad, we pioneered modern overdubbed pop music production from the very beginning.
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    I met him and attended some talks he was part of...

    I met him and attended some talks he was part of around 2005.
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    Bill Porter mixed to stereo off the floor because...

    Bill Porter mixed to stereo off the floor because he felt the three-track machines screwed up the low-end too much.
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    It was nice to see this. I should mention mixers...

    It was nice to see this. I should mention mixers Harold Taylor and Tom Nixon who along with Lawrence Horn and Brian Holland mixed a lot of those classic singles.

    A lot of why the mono versions...
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