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Berry Gordy Jr.

If there is any place where the legacy of doo wop was kept alive and simmering in rhythm and blues it was in Detroit. A label was started in 1959, when Berry Gordy Jr. (at first called Tamla), released a single called, “Reet Petite”. Gordy wrote the song for Jackie Wilson.

Berry Gordy Jr.

Len “Muddy” Mardeusz
Roving Reporter

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