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“With more than 100 performing groups … Motown had plowed an entirely new road to entrepreneurial success. …

“Smokey Robinson and the Miracles, the Temptations, the Four Tops, Mary Wells, Stevie Wonder, Gladys Knight and the Pips, and of course Diana Ross and the Supremes were local kids who turned Motown into ‘Hitsville U.S.A.,’ as the sign above Motown’s headquarters read.”

— Julia Vitullo-Martin, writing on “The Day the Music Died,” Friday in the Wall Street Journal

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