cover image Where Did Our Love Go?: The Rise & Fall of the Motown Sound

Where Did Our Love Go?: The Rise & Fall of the Motown Sound

Nelson George. St. Martin's Press, $17.95 (250pp) ISBN 978-0-312-86698-3

George, an editor at Billboard and author of The Michael Jackson Story, recounts the story of Motown Records, founded by Berry Gordy in Detroit in 1959 and now located in Hollywood. In the end, the author concludes, ""Motown became just another record company.'' (September)