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Thread started 11/28/12 12:32pm

Timmy84

Motown founder and R&B songwriter Berry "BG" Gordy is 83 today...

The same man who wrote this:

...was the same man who created a label that included this:

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Nearly 60 years of classics. Happy birthday to the founder of the "Sound of Young America"... party

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Reply #1 posted 11/28/12 12:35pm

Graycap23

cool

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Reply #2 posted 11/28/12 1:15pm

2elijah

Wow, he has the same bday as my Mom's, which hers is today also. Cool.

Happy Bday Mr. Music Man!

[Edited 11/28/12 14:42pm]

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Reply #3 posted 11/28/12 1:24pm

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Happy Birthday, Mr. Gordy! Thanks for the music! dancing jig

I knew from the start that I loved you with all my heart.
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Reply #4 posted 11/28/12 2:27pm

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"Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination and life to everything." --Plato

https://youtu.be/CVwv9LZMah0
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Reply #5 posted 11/28/12 3:04pm

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Reply #6 posted 11/28/12 3:20pm

aardvark15

It's time for him to get his birthday spankings

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Reply #7 posted 11/28/12 3:47pm

alphastreet

^ lol from Diana?

I was worried I was about to read that he's dead sad happy birthday!!! smile

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Reply #8 posted 11/28/12 4:12pm

aardvark15

alphastreet said:

I was worried I was about to read that he's dead sad

Me too

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Reply #9 posted 11/28/12 4:18pm

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aardvark15 said:

alphastreet said:

I was worried I was about to read that he's dead sad

Me too

ME THREE lol

I'M NOT SHOUTING, JEEZ!
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Reply #10 posted 11/28/12 4:52pm

2elijah

aardvark15 said:

It's time for him to get his birthday spankings

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Reply #11 posted 11/28/12 5:35pm

kibbles

i found berry and smokey in the 1940 census. no diana as she wasn't born then.

what a legacy, regardless of what people may say about him. i don't think he was any worse than many business people out there, and he had to start from farther behind than most.

happy b-day, indeed. cool

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