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EVENT: Motown 50 Gala Celebration is Detroit House Party

Detroit -- It was a real Detroit house party Saturday night at the downtown Marriott, as the Motown family, friends and fans celebrated the 50th anniversary of when the "sound of young America" was born in a dowdy middle-class neighborhood in Detroit. There was birthday cake (for Berry Gordy's 80th birthday next Saturday), Stevie Wonder love songs, a video tribute from the President of the United States (Gordy made music "for rich and poor, urban and rural, old and young -- especially the young...

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11:10 on November 22 2009

EVENT: Motown 50 Gala Celebration is Detroit House Party

All About Jazz — Detroit -- It was a real Detroit house party Saturday night at the downtown Marriott, as the Motown family, friends and fans celebrated the 50th anniversary of when the "... more info
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11:15 on November 22 2009

Motown caps 50th anniversary with gala

Black ties and gowns filled a ballroom Saturday in a big-bucks salute to Detroit-style royalty ” the King of Motown, the Queen of Soul and the Kid of Rock. more info
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