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Jul 23, 2020 · Smokey Robinson. Known as the "King of Motown," Smokey Robinson founded the R&B group The Miracles, which delivered 37 Top 40 hits for Motown Records. Updated: Jul 23, 2020. Photo:...
Release. May 16, 1983. ( 1983-05-16) Motown 25: Yesterday, Today, Forever is a 1983 television special, produced by Suzanne de Passe for Motown, to commemorate Motown's 25th anniversary (Motown was founded in January 1959). The program was taped before a live audience at the Pasadena Civic Auditorium in Pasadena, California on March 25, 1983 ...
- Don Mischer
- Motown Pictures
- May 16, 1983
- Buz Kohan, Ruth Robinson, Suzanne de Passe
- Big ratings. The original broadcast of the two-hour show was watched by 47 million people, according to Nielsen, with 35 percent of the country with a TV set turned on watching Motown 25.
- Marvin Gaye’s TV Comeback. Gaye was never fond of performing on television — check out his performance on Soul Trainwhere he apologizes for his poor lip-synching technique — and 1983 was packed with as many TV appearances as he made in his peak years of 1965 and 1969.
- Motown and country music? T.G. Sheppardappeared on Motown 25despite having had no relationship with the label since 1977. He was, however, the biggest star on Motown’s short-lived country label, initially Melodyland and then Hitsville, which ran from 1974 to 1977.
- The return of the Four Tops. Levi Stubbs, Duke Fakir, Obie Benson and Lawrence Peyton had just re-signed with Motown after stints at ABC and Casablanca, where they had recorded late-period hits such as “When She Was My Girl” and “Are You Man Enough.”
The King of Queens was produced by Hanley Productions and CBS Productions (1998–2007), CBS Paramount Network Television (2007), in association with Columbia TriStar Television (1998–2002), and Sony Pictures Television (2002–07). It was filmed at Sony Pictures Studios in Culver City, California.
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King of the Hill is an American animated sitcom created by Mike Judge and Greg Daniels that initially aired on Fox from January 12, 1997, to September 13, 2009, with four more episodes airing syndicated from May 3 to 6, 2010. The series centers on the Hills, an American family in the fictional city of Arlen, Texas, as well as their neighbors ...
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Jan 9, 2019 · Sixty years ago, Berry Gordy set up the hit factory of Motown. Arwa Haider looks at how an independent record label created one of the most influential sounds of the 20th Century. On 12 January ...
The King of Queens: Created by David Litt, Michael J. Weithorn. With Kevin James, Leah Remini, Jerry Stiller, Victor Williams. Deliveryman Doug Heffernan has a good life: He has a pretty wife (Carrie), a big television, and friends with which to watch it.
