![]() It was inspired by Debbie Reynolds' record "Tammy" (sung in a movie) that BG loved. It handled booking Motown artists for various venues. Besides the record manufacturing corporation and music publishing company, this artist management division was one of Gordy's corporations in the 1960s and 70s. Gary, you might be thinking of International Talent Management, Incorporated or ITMI (also pronounced "it-mee"). ![]() Yeah Phil, IIRC that's what BG said in his autobio, too. In his book "The Motown Story", Don Waller writes :" Berry Gordy founds Tamla records in January 1959.Gordy originally wants to call it Tammie records, after the then popular Debbie Reynolds film of that title, but the name has already been taken." Tammie, Tamla, sounds similar ? I forget what TAMLA stands for (Talent Management something or other as I recall,) JOBETE was the first two letters of his children's names, Joy, Berry and Terry. Ofcourse Motown was short for Detroits' nickname of Motortown(auto manufacturing).īG was quite fond of acronyms and anagrams when it came to naming things. Gordy derived Tamla from a hit song "Tammy" from the late 50's. Who was responsible for the names and how were they thought up?įrom what I remember, Mr. I have always wanted to know how BG thought up the names of his various labels.
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