ULTIMATE MOTOWN XMAS 11/23/2018 8 Disco Bloodbath Boogie Fever

8                      Disco Bloodbath Boogie Fever

There are jazz inflections throughout

the compilers were overly reliant on the pop charts: many superior songs from their early and middle years -- "I'm So Proud" and "Mighty Mighty (Spade and Whitey)

Tonight" appeared on Vol

ULTIMATE MOTOWN XMAS 11/23/2018 8 Disco Bloodbath Boogie FeverBerry Gordy was more than just a visionary label owner, he was also an astute businessman who studied and understood how the pop charts worked, and his stable of songwriters, arrangers, musicians, and singers all worked toward the same aim of refining R&B and soul music into a pop product that appealed across race, gender, and generational lines. And Gordy knew although the radio play and sales period was extremely brief that nothing endured more than