Hitsville USA--the birthplace of Detroit’s Motown Sound

Join Correspondent Tom Wilmer in Detroit , Michigan at Hitsville U.S.A the birthplace of Motown Records . The Motown Sound has been described as a marriage of saintly and secular music, melding the syncopation and improvisation of the jazz be-bop movement. From the Four Tops to Marvin Gaye, the Supremes, Martha and the Vandellas, and Stevie Wonder--the music created in Barry Gordy’s Motown Records “Studio A” transformed the world of music in America forever. The Motown Sound remains just as much a part of America’s cultural fabric today as it was when hits like Dancin’ In The Streets , How Sweet It Is , What’s Goin’ On , and I Heard it Through the Grapevine , first rocked the charts back in the 1960s. Shanel Adams, Social Media and Public Relations Coordinator at The Motown Museum , in downtown Detroit , Michigan takes us on a Motown-Sound journey of Discovery. This show was originally broadcast June 22, 2016 and is reshared as a Best-of-the Best travel show in celebration of Journeys