Raynoma Gordy Singleton

As sweetheart and wife of Berry Gordy, Jr. in the past due ’50s and early ’60s, Raynoma Singleton was aware of an inside look at of the delivery of Motown Information. Her role had not been purely observational; she also offered administrative and innovative assistance, although their relationship had finished by 1963. She worked well at a Motown workplace in NY for some time, which finished unhappily when Raynoma, strapped for money, pressed 5,000 copies of Mary Wells’ “My Man” on her behalf own, to market to record shops. Rather than encounter prosecution, she authorized a general launch from Motown and everything its entities, and founded the short-lived spirit label Shrine Information in Washington, D.C. with her following spouse, Eddie Singleton. Raynoma would perform work in a variety of capacities for Motown from your past due ’60s onward, and published extensively about the business’s start and her romantic relationship with Gordy in her memoir, Berry, Me, and Motown.