Back from Detroit!


Wanted to drop a quick blog post about being back from Detroit. I had a great time; it was everything I had hoped it would be and then some. Highlight of the visit was a trek to the original location of Motown. It is not often that I can put myself right in the middle of where history happened. A very humble start in a house to a music company that changed the world of popular music.

Motown's success remind me of that verse to "Not despise the day of small beginnings."  Think of this...the incarnation of Jesus started small, in the womb of Mary. 

Motown's founder Berry Gordy wrote songs in his head while he worked on a Chrysler assembly line. He would do his job quickly and then transcribe the tunes onto paper using a simplified musical note system while waiting for the next car to arrive. From that two year experience of working on the assembly line, he essentially created a musical assembly line for tunes that cranked hit out after hit.

One photograph at the Motown Museum showed a graphic chart from back in the 1960's where Motown had five of the top ten hits in music (as a Black-owned company). That is so remarkable. Just because it happened doesn't make it any less amazing.
  
I don't know how long I will be reflecting on Motown and Detroit...there is a lot to process here.   

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