Originally Posted by
snakepit
Indeed, the UK radio played a wide variety of styles, and Soul/R&B music was way down the totem pole.
Off shore "pirate" radio ships played a lot of soul/Motown. But the UK mainstream played all kinds of records that were the backbone of the pop charts...comedy records, Elvis, Beat groups, balladeers, and with arestriction of "needle" time, so that BBC orchestras were featured.
Motown records , before the TM label, were issued on the Stateside label, which had licence deals with many different USA labels...the result was that the Stateside catalogue was a very broad church....and Motown artists would have been placed in that area for Black artists, perhaps with a decent hit in the USA. They would have been lost in the mixed bag of records from all genres.
The launch of the TM label gave it an identity...
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