Soul Deep: The Story of Black Popular Music Season 1 Episode 3 The Sound Of Young America: Diana Ross ( Air Date 2005-05-21 ) Genre Documentary category. Overview "This episode is about Motown's golden age from 1959 - 1967. It traces the Detroit label's extraordinary rise from cottage industry to mighty record giant before chronicling its fall from pop innocence. The Motown sound and its incredible flood of 1960s hits unquestionably changed the landscape of pop. With the Supremes, Martha Reeves & the Vandellas, the Temptations, the Four Tops, Smokey Robinson & The Miracles, the label rewrote the cultural rule book and created THE sound of young America.".
Stars:
Colin Salmon, James Brown, Bootsy Collins, Ray Charles, Ben E. King, Etta James, Mary J. Blige, Bobby Womack, Mavis Staples, George Clinton, Martha Reeves, Allen Toussaint, Fontella Bass
Director:
William Naylor, Michael Poole