https://www.iloveoldschoolmusic.com/be-honest-was-berry-gordy-wrong-for-doing-this-to-his-artists/ Everything Old School Live Here! Wed, 09 Sep 2015 09:01:56 +0000 hourly 1 https://www.iloveoldschoolmusic.com/be-honest-was-berry-gordy-wrong-for-doing-this-to-his-artists/#comment-768 Sun, 12 Oct 2014 15:01:56 +0000 http://angularjsdevelopment.com/LoveOldMusic/?p=2890#comment-768 In the case of Gordy, it wasn’t about the artists hiring their own crappy lawyers, the way Berry worked was that he offered you a contract and you signed it right there on the spot or the deal was off the table. There was no going home to look it over, there was no bringing in your own lawyer. He liked you and you have a few minutes to decide to turn your life over to him. Nothing more to discuss. There was even one guy who took the contract home, looked over it, still wanted to sign and Berry told him no. We all know the stories of how piss poor many of those artists were before Motown so they saw it as their only way out of the hood. I learned that from a book I read about MJ. The only person on Motown that seemed to flourish was Smokey and that’s because he wrote his own hits and wrote hits for others so they weren’t about to go messing with their cash cow.

]]> https://www.iloveoldschoolmusic.com/be-honest-was-berry-gordy-wrong-for-doing-this-to-his-artists/#comment-2901 Sun, 12 Oct 2014 15:01:56 +0000 http://angularjsdevelopment.com/LoveOldMusic/?p=2890#comment-2901 In the case of Gordy, it wasn’t about the artists hiring their own crappy lawyers, the way Berry worked was that he offered you a contract and you signed it right there on the spot or the deal was off the table. There was no going home to look it over, there was no bringing in your own lawyer. He liked you and you have a few minutes to decide to turn your life over to him. Nothing more to discuss. There was even one guy who took the contract home, looked over it, still wanted to sign and Berry told him no. We all know the stories of how piss poor many of those artists were before Motown so they saw it as their only way out of the hood. I learned that from a book I read about MJ. The only person on Motown that seemed to flourish was Smokey and that’s because he wrote his own hits and wrote hits for others so they weren’t about to go messing with their cash cow.

]]> https://www.iloveoldschoolmusic.com/be-honest-was-berry-gordy-wrong-for-doing-this-to-his-artists/#comment-767 Thu, 09 Oct 2014 21:01:56 +0000 http://angularjsdevelopment.com/LoveOldMusic/?p=2890#comment-767 The article never fully explained what tactics Berry Gordy used that were considered dirty. And there’s too much click and see which forces a reader to continue with the subject or just close the page.

]]> https://www.iloveoldschoolmusic.com/be-honest-was-berry-gordy-wrong-for-doing-this-to-his-artists/#comment-2900 Thu, 09 Oct 2014 21:01:56 +0000 http://angularjsdevelopment.com/LoveOldMusic/?p=2890#comment-2900 The article never fully explained what tactics Berry Gordy used that were considered dirty. And there’s too much click and see which forces a reader to continue with the subject or just close the page.

]]> https://www.iloveoldschoolmusic.com/be-honest-was-berry-gordy-wrong-for-doing-this-to-his-artists/#comment-766 Thu, 09 Oct 2014 18:31:57 +0000 http://angularjsdevelopment.com/LoveOldMusic/?p=2890#comment-766 Why can’t whole postings be on one page?

]]> https://www.iloveoldschoolmusic.com/be-honest-was-berry-gordy-wrong-for-doing-this-to-his-artists/#comment-2899 Thu, 09 Oct 2014 18:31:57 +0000 http://angularjsdevelopment.com/LoveOldMusic/?p=2890#comment-2899 Why can’t whole postings be on one page?

]]> https://www.iloveoldschoolmusic.com/be-honest-was-berry-gordy-wrong-for-doing-this-to-his-artists/#comment-764 Thu, 09 Oct 2014 18:02:00 +0000 http://angularjsdevelopment.com/LoveOldMusic/?p=2890#comment-764 So many record company execs have followed his “formula”.

]]> https://www.iloveoldschoolmusic.com/be-honest-was-berry-gordy-wrong-for-doing-this-to-his-artists/#comment-765 Thu, 09 Oct 2014 18:02:00 +0000 http://angularjsdevelopment.com/LoveOldMusic/?p=2890#comment-765 Yep

]]> https://www.iloveoldschoolmusic.com/be-honest-was-berry-gordy-wrong-for-doing-this-to-his-artists/#comment-2897 Thu, 09 Oct 2014 18:02:00 +0000 http://angularjsdevelopment.com/LoveOldMusic/?p=2890#comment-2897 So many record company execs have followed his “formula”.

]]> https://www.iloveoldschoolmusic.com/be-honest-was-berry-gordy-wrong-for-doing-this-to-his-artists/#comment-2898 Thu, 09 Oct 2014 18:02:00 +0000 http://angularjsdevelopment.com/LoveOldMusic/?p=2890#comment-2898 Yep

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