Motown: The Sound of Young America Book Release [[at long last)

[woodward]

Motown: The Sound of Young America Book Release

Thames and Hudson Invites You to Join
Barney Ales and Adam White
for a Book Release Celebration at Hitsville U.S.A.
Join acclaimed music writer, Adam White and former Motown Records president, Barney Ales for an invitation-only cocktail party for the book release of Motown: The Sound of Young America.

Monday, September 12
7 p.m. to 9 p.m.
Motown Museum
2648 W. Grand Blvd.
Detroit, MI 48208

Motown: The Sound of Young America features colorful rare images of Motown Records’ artists and other special moments during the label’s history. The book also draws on interviews with key players during the Motown-era including Motown founder Berry Gordy, Barney Ales, Smokey Robinson, Mary Wilson, founding member of the Supremes, and many more.

RSVP required by Friday, September 9
by emailing museumstore@motownmuseum.org

Adam White has written about music for more than forty years. He scripted the Grammy-nominated radio documentary The Motown Story, was editor-in-chief at Billboard, and coauthored The Billboard Book of No. 1 R&B Hits. He was vice president of communications at Universal Music Group International from 2002 to 2012.

Barney Ales was Berry Gordy's right-hand man. Ales rose to become executive vice president and then served as its president from 1975 to 1978.

[marv2]

Thank you Woodward for this information.

[jsmith]

Went to Amazon to view this book & it's pricing BUT got distracted by another book on Motown ... Rhythm Ride: A Road Trip Through the Motown Sound .
No doubt this was talked about here in the past ... what are SDer's views on this older offering [[it gets great reviews on Amazon).