Barrett Strong, the Motown artist who sang the label’s first major hit “Money (That’s What I Want)” and wrote for the Temptations and others, has died at age 81
Motown's Barrett Strong arrives at the induction ceremony for 35th annual National Academy of Popular Music/Songwriters Hall of Fame in New York, Thursday, June 10, 2004.Motown artist who sang the label’s first major hit “Money ” and wrote songs for the Temptations and others, has died. He was 81.
Born in Mississippi on Feb. 5 1941 and raised in Detroit, Strong was one of Gordy’s earliest signees. He sang 1959’s “Money ” for Motown’s Tamla label, and it shot to Number Two on the U.S. R&B chart in 1960, going on to sell more than one million copies.
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