Teen Town - The Motown Story 1965 

I''m a millennial, and this makes me feel so emotional. This is the breath taking moment that impacted history forever! Motown! BlackExcellence

Rip David Ruffin, Eddie Kendricks, Dennis Edwards, Paul Williams, and Melvin Franklin. Thank You Berry Gordy For Having A Wonderful Group Like This Over The Years.

I really enjoyed this. I was born in 1980, I remember the Motown 25 Anniversary & MJ introduced the world to the moonwalk. It was at that moment I fell in love with music I was only 4 or 5. TV was bigger & in color lol MJ's white glove was everything. It's crazy how music grows & how we grow as human beings. If music brings people together like this I wish America was just 1 big party with great feel good music, this would be a much happier place ☝🏾🏃🏾‍♀️💨💨💨

To the Hip Hop performers: sit down and take notes on class, lyrics, and style. Yep, I said it.

Stevie Wonder is an example of someone who never allowed a handicap to handicap him and turned a challenge into a victory

THE MIRACLES RULE,BABY !!! There wouldn't have ever even BEEN a "Motown" without THEM !!!

I truly loved everything about Motown music and their singers. We will never see anything like Motown ever again. May all the ones that is still living and the ones that have gone on may the continue to be blessed and the ones that's gone may their souls rest in peace and in God's loving arms 🙏❣️❣️🙏❤️🙏❣️🙏❤️❤️🙏🙏🙏🙏❤️❣️❣️❣️🙏❤️🙏🙏❤️🙏

HAPPY 60 ANNIVERSARY MOTOWN (JANUARY 12, 1959 - JANUARY 2019) [01/12/2019]

All the ladies hair do's look marvelous and they all look sweet and professional. Nice voices that they all had. Hitsville studio in Detroit along with producer Berry Gordy that gave them a record deal. Berry Gordy was one of a kind also.

The Host of this show at Hitsville Detroit is doing a nice presentation for Motown Singers. He has a Great personality, and he's so kind and friendly.

How much of a treat was that....wow rare seen footage.

awesome show and so much talent there. berry Gordy and smokey are totally my inspirations to keep moving.

The twentieth Century wouldn't be sh-t without TV. A time machine.

Yo Jamerson in the background makin' THAT Funk machine talk 26:40..

Love this. I love the hand dancing on "He Was Really Saying Something" that brother with the black sweater and his partner are getting it in. Look at the clothes..... no bumping and grinding and humping....@38:09

HAPPY 87TH BIRTHDAY BERRY GORDY JR. (NOVEMBER 28, 2016)

I absolutely loved this!

Formidable music of the sixties, the Marvelettes my favorite girl group from Détroit, thank you for the post.

.Detroit when it was in its hey day. Notice how well scrubbed and neatly dressed all the teens are. Another day, another era.

what a era

This era is really the beginning that Black rnb artist sored to pop levels..

I danced along with my friends from Mumford High and Cass Tech. on this show a couple of times.

Nice to see all three Supremes rehearsing in the studio.

This makes me so happy. You see, as a teenager in the early 80s, I could not stand the high tech soulless synthesizer banging and voice enhancers that passed for music in those days (which I later learned was forced on us by cheapskate producers). I was listening to things like this from a generation earlier and liked it better, but other kids weren't into that so I felt weird. Now, I love this stuff with no shame in my game, and music like this has stood the test of time. The joy in what they are doing is infectious.

I'm so enjoying this❤ Smokey Robinson such a cutie 🥰

Those moves ..... They make it look so easy lol... I certainly would've fell on my face ! Thanks Motown Records and Berry Gordy😊✌🏿️🇺🇸

I believe the kids enjoyed Stevie the most because he was their age!

notice how this era looks older than they actually look. features wise.

..GRAN DOCUMENTO!!,,,GRACIAS...Saludos desde Argentina!!

Inoubliable Tamla Motown Meilleurs Artistes. Merci Dave David.

I love how the director of the show kept having the cameraman concentrate on that one student girl. She was soooo incredibly cute how she'd be a combination of bashful, upset and happy that the camera kept focusing in on her.

MASTERPIECE DOCUMENTARY !! SHEER BRILLIANTS !! THANK YOU FOR POSTING !

Marvin Gaye started as a section drummer at Motown and then he became a world renown singing superstar

It reminds me of my mother, Father and Uncles, Cousins all over in 1965 when nI was a kid. Yes it was a hit and I play it today. The Marvelettes were on.

Robin Seymour was THEE COOLEST!!!! I was only 6 or 7 but I remember Teen Town & Swingin' Time very well.

A little Teen Town trivia. Teen Town aired on CKLW a Canadian TV and radio station located across the Detroit River in Windsor, Ontario, Canada.

That string of three #1 hits turned into EIGHT consecutive #1 hits.

OUTSTANDING.....I Lived this Music...Gradded in 1965...VIETNAM in 1968 :(....

"Since I Lost My Baby" was written by TWO of The Miracles: Smokey Robinson and Miracles bass singer Pete Moore. Most of the Temptations' early hits were written by members of The Miracles.(not just Smokey)

Wow this is History,loved it,the black couple dancing on He Was Really Saying Something,got off,this was true 60s,The Best

Motown, forever!

this is incredible, i'm so happy you posted this! thank you.

Yes, that does look like the great Benny Benjamin on that. We can't forget the musicians who, on these recordings, were just as important as the singers but not given credit for their contributions. Benny, James Jamerson, Pistol Allen, Earl Van Dyke, Mike Terry, Paul Riser, Melvin Watson, Joe Messina, Ronnie White, Oriel Jones, Hank Cosby and many others. BTW, the alto player on the Supremes vid looks like Maurice King. He ran the Spinners live show, and trumpeter Gil Lasky ran the Temps show.

Local TV , back in the day. Detroit was a great place to grow up.

1965, you mean to tell me that Stevie was only 15, what chops and personality!

Smokey, Whitfield, Holland Dozier Holland-Does it get any better? Just listen and the answer is CLEAR!

HAPPY 89TH BIRTHDAY BERRY GORDY, JR. (NOVEMBER 28, 2018)

The Great James Jameson on bass!

The Marvelettes had some cute dance moves.

Thanks for this Wonderful video! Yeah, they were Great times!

American history can get a little confusing at times when I run into features like this.. every time I see black related 60's inner-city excerpts, it's usually more times than ever, heart wrenching civil right related activity.. now here, I see blacks and whites HARMONIOUSLY working hand in hand building a masterpiece - 1965!! ..that's a lil confusing! Somebody, anybody.. kindly enlighten!!

Lol that poor girl was totally annoyed that the camera stopped on her.

YO THAT WAS THE MOB IN THE HITSVILLE BUILDING

Love this stuff never get. Tired of it

Diana Ross = #18 Number One Billboard Pop Singles Diana Ross = Lifetime Grammy Award Diana Ross = Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Diana Ross = Tony Award Winner Diana Ross = Golden Globe Winner Diana Ross = Kennedy Center Honor Diana Ross = 2 Stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame Diana Ross = Platinum Albums Diana Ross = Number One Pop & RB Albums Diana Ross = 150+ Albums Sold Worldwide Diana Ross = Singer, Actress, Fashion Icon Diana Ross = BET Honors Diana Ross = World Music Awards Lifetime Award Diana Ross = CEASER award for Mahogany Diana Ross = Sold Out Concerts Diana Ross = Billboard Entertainer of the Century Award Diana Ross = Guinness Book Of World Records "THE MOST SUCCESFUL FEMALE SINGER IN MUSIC HISTORY" Diana Ross = Academy Award Nominated Actress for her first film Diana Ross = Known as THE FIRST LADY OF MUSIC. ORIGINAL DREAMGIRL, and THE ICONIC QUEEN OF POP. Diana Ross = ONE MILLION people Central Park 1983 Diana Ross = Mac Cosmetics ICON Diana Ross = NAACP Image Award Female Entertainer of the year Diana Ross = BET Walk of Fame Diana Ross = Soul Train Heritage Award Diana Ross = Soul Train Hall of Fame Diana Ross = MUCH MUCH MORE.....

Extraordinary talent!

0:12 There's a missing member in this scene. The Miracles were a 5-member group for live appearances and a 6-member group for recording sessions The members were: William "Smokey" Robison, Ronnie White, Robert Rodgers(Smokey's brother-in-law), Warren "Pete" Moore and Marvin Tarplin. Smokey's wife, Claudette(Robert's sister) was heard on the early recordings but she did not tour with the group.

ROBIN SEYMOUR was always great on THE BIG 8 as well as CKLW TV 9 in WINDSOR /DETROIT The Home of HITSVILLE USA

wow! this was wonderful!!!

wow luv this :)

thank you for uploading this, awesome

To bad there was not a teen show in Cleveland Ohio, during this time/era!!

Thanks for this!

WOW, this is GREAT thanks for posting.

Thank you for this!!

Thanks for that! Love it.

Amazing ! ACE !!

Its funny how the host of the show has an obvious crush on Wanda from the Marvelettes.

Smokey Robinson and The Miracles were one of Berry Gordy's first and best singers on his record label. I do know Martha Reeves was Berry Gordy's Assistant or Secretary/Singer.

Never saw this before, but this special episode on the Motown Story was aired as part of "Teen Town", a short-lived syndicated music TV series hosted by Robin Seymour. It ran from 1965 until 1966 for just one season. It was the Detroit's version of "American Bandstand" but it was only in local syndication, but never carried it elsewhere in NYC. It has lots of great Motown artists as well as Berry Gordy, the producer and founder of Motown.

When They Passed Those Tambourines To The Marvelettes They Were To Start Steppin

In addition to that, Berry Gordy was a great talent compared to Mitch Miller who was also a record producer and assistant for Columbia Records who had been produced lots of albums in the 50's and 60's as well as a series of "Sing-Along" albums and hosted his own TV show at the time. Berry Gordy was a true genius and he became the next Mitch Miller for Motown. As for the whole hour long show, it has some classic TV commercials in there.

Flo's voice is SO strong. She could have easily handled that lead honey and TORE it UP.

thanks for posting

Whenever a company grow to a certain and outside criminal elements become involved and for sure they will become involved businesses and especially Black businesses will be controlled undermined and slowly taken over. Business owners will not tell u that usually that's their secret. The move of Motown was a major major turn over and lost of control over Motown Record Co had the company stayed in Detroit the decline of the city of Detroit and surrounding areas would not have declined to a almost impossible state of state of promency. The Music industry and the Car Industry provided security and jobs for the people even those that had no education or very little education. What Barry Goody did for many people and the city of Detroit especially can never be forgotten. I must say one thing and that is Goody had a record for not fairly honoring contracts. DP

Tamla Motown... Meilleur label. Meilleurs Artistes.

Interesting the Supremes had a live taping while everyone else had their records played.

WOW. YOU GUYS JUST cut off *THE MIRACLES* at the beginning of this !!!

From January 1965

Always, IMO thought the Marvelettes had more electricity than the Supremes

I was surprised that their were no mention of Marvin Gaye or the Four Tops

Thanks for the upload. The "E" (ECORSE HIGH SCHOOL) coast is in the house!!

Excelente!! James Jamerson en el bajo.

Tht was good

of course robin senymore hosted the dance show swinging time.

When they sang "My Girl", I see wy David felt like he sang better than everyone, he was standing alone. But when Marvin Gaye took Tammi Terell from David Rufin, He was upset and left, and sang "Since I lost my baby" and a whole album about Tami. David also started Hitting hard drugs and running with the wrong crowd that would pull him down. It was like a rolla coaster going up and down. But we still love David Rufin R.I.P. my brother david and Jimmie, Melvin, Eddie K.And Paul.R.I.P everybody.

The song was written in Diane's key not Florence. It is Diane's voice that took it to No.1 along with five in a row. all Diane. and we the public Loved it.

Happy Black History Month

looks like Benny on drums backing the Supremes

26.57, Earl Van Dyke - piano, James Jameson - Bass, Benny Benjamin - Drums, Robert White?? - Guitar, unfortunately I can't name the horn players, but I assume Mike Terry is in there somewhere.

I LOVE MOTOWN! simon4186

They didn't mention james jamerson once!

At 39:25 the white couple is totally square and being badly out-danced by the three black couples. Not trying to be mean or racist - I'm white anyway - but I just had to laugh at how stiff the white coupe looks.

That is James at 53:50

For some reason this reminded me of the musical Hairspray. LoL

It was never called Gladys Horton and The Marvelettes because she left the group in '65...And 1965 was the year that Motown started to say the lead singer's name first and then the name of the group he or she represented.

Very enjoyable. How can I get a copy of this??

Was that Jamerson on bass at 28:09?

Dang

At 43:50 is that James Jamerson on the right with the hat on?