Deaths: Anna Gordy Gaye Motown

ANNA GORDY GAYE (1921-2014), 92. Died January 31, 2014. //// I have always been a huge fan of Motown Music. Those songs and choreography just knocked me out. In college, my fraternity, Delta Sigma Phi at NIU, played just four songs at our parties: Temptations Greatest Hits, Four Tops Greatest Hits were two of them. (The other two were CCR's Green River and Sly & Family Stone's Greatest Hits.) //// She was a crucial force in Motown's rise as well as wife of singer Marvin Gaye. She and her sister Gwen Gordy founded Anna Records in 1958 before becoming a part of brother Berry Gordy's Motown Records in 1961. In 1963, she married Marvin Gaye and was the inspiration for his first Top Ten hit, "Pride and Joy" in 1963.