Hitsville U.S.A.

A new 10-CD box set commemorates the anniversary by packaging Motown's 192 number-one songs in a box that looks just like "Hitsville U.S.A.," the two-story Detroit house where it all began.

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LD: Yeah, my uncle James Allen, brought me over to the Hitsville U.S.A. building where I had been summoned by Berry Gordy to come talk about recording and signing a contract with them as a producer, writer, singer, you name it.

Mike Ragogna: HuffPost Exclusive: A Pre-Johnny Mercer Award Interview with Lamont Dozier 2009

Headlined by the tight-as-ever duo of Berry Gordy Jr. and Smokey Robinson, whose friendship has spanned more than five decades, an even dozen of the men and women who launched Motown into music history pose for Annie Leibovitz, marking a half-century since the hits began zooming out of Hitsville U.S.A.

The Monarchs of Motown Portfolio 2008

GROOVE to the sounds of Hitsville U.S.A. at the Motown Historical Museum, home of Studio A, where the Temptations, Marvin Gaye and others recorded with the Funk Brothers (motownmuseum. org).

The Good Life: The Age Of Recovery 2007

She amassed memorabilia and preserved the old Detroit headquarters, Hitsville U.S.A., turning it into a museum that opened in 1985.

StarTribune.com rss feed 2011

The quintet quickly began tossing about ideas for a new name on the steps of Motown's Hitsville U.S.A. headquarters and studio.

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There, in the tiny studios of Hitsville U.S.A. they soaked up some atmosphere and got cheered by dozens before coming home for the two hour Wednesday night performance show.

Courant.com Blogs 2009

LD: Yeah, my uncle James Allen, brought me over to the Hitsville U.S.A. building where I had been summoned by Berry Gordy to come talk about recording and signing a contract with them as a producer, writer, singer, you name it.

The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com 2009

Carlos Osorio/Associated Press Dedrick Weathersby of Longview, Texas, front, danced outside Hitsville U.S.A., the Motown museum in Detroit.

Mourning Michael Jackson 2009

Gordy outside his Hitsville U.S.A. studio on West Grand Boulevard in Detroit, 1964.

Motown in Photos, Then and Now 2008