We recently had a thread on Anna Gordy but [[at present) I am more interested in her sister Gwen's activities.
She was the first entrepreneur of the Gordy children having started out as the operator of a photo concession at Detroit's Flame Show Bar. She went on to help start several record labels and played a major role in the development of Motown.
She died of cancer, aged 71, almost exactly 11 years ago.
With her [[then) husband Harvey Fuqua, Gwen formed the Harvey and Tri-Phi labels.
She also helped found Anna Records & after her labels were merged with Motown, she went on to be very influential in Motown's Artist Development Dept.
She was [[at various times) a manager, record company executive, songwriter and producer [[she helped steer the careers of the likes of the Spinners & Tammi Terrell).

....... AND THEN ..... just when you would have thought that she'd have been putting her feet up & taking life easy [[career wise) she burst back onto the Motown scene in 1977 for a few years with Gwen Glenn Productions, Derglenn Publishing Co. and Old Brompton Road Publishing Co.
Gwen Glenn was responsible for the recordings made by High Inergy, Major Lance, Jamal Trice & others and as such put Motown back into the charts a number of times [[5) through to 1979.
By 1979 [[& High Inergy's 'Frenzy' album), Gwen Glenn seemed to be less interested [[with Stone Diamond & Brown Sugar Productions getting involved) but Derglenn Publishing & Old Brompton Road Publishing still handled 8 of the 9 songs on the album.

Anone know what brought Gwen back to such a 'hands on' position in 1977 ??
How did Gwen Glenn get its name [[who was Glenn ?).

A photo of Gwen in the Motown studios with Jamal Trice .........
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