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The Origins of Motown
"I can't even imagine the energy and excitement in just, you know, daily insanity of Motown at the beginning," he says. "There was only five of us there on the very first day of Motown." Berry Gordy bought $800 for his family to start his own record company. He wanted to make music like an auto plant's assembly line: raw talent with a high school education.