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23. Your recollection is slightly off. Motown hits kept coming thru the 60s and '70s.

Thu Dec 23, 2021, 10:10 PM

Dec 2021

They coincided with the Beatles' invasion. The Supremes, The Temptations, The Four Tops, Stevie Wonder, Marvin Gaye, Mary Wells, Gladys Knight, The Jackson Five, Michael Jackson by himself, Patti LaBelle...come on, Motown kept churning out the hits.

Maybe you were so overwhelmed by the Beatles you were unaware of other acts. And then there was Aretha Franklin, Otic Redding and other Atlantic Records artists who had huge hits also.

Maybe your focus was "rock and roll and pop" hits and not R&B, but Michael Jackson was called the king of pop.

And like you said, Dylan had huge hits during the '60s too, it wasn't all Beatles all the time as the Stones had big hits as well. The Loving Spoonful, the Monkees, Dave Clark Five, etc.

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And don't forget all the Motown hits of that era. brush Dec 2021 #11

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Your recollection is slightly off. Motown hits kept coming thru the 60s and '70s. brush Dec 2021 #23

I remember all those groups wnylib Dec 2021 #24

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