Janie Bradford obituary
Songwriter who contributed to the first record made at Motown’s Detroit studio and co-wrote many of the label’s hits Janie Bradford was a poetry-loving receptionist, not yet out of her teens, when she provided her boss, Berry Gordy Jr, with the lines that helped him complete a song called Money (That’s What I Want). Gordy, then in the early stages of establishing Motown Records and searching for what would become the
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- 26 Aug 2026, 14:50 UTC
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- Richard Williams
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- Motown records
Songwriter who contributed to the first record made at Motown’s Detroit studio and co-wrote many of the label’s hits Janie Bradford was a poetry-loving receptionist, not yet out of her teens, when she provided her boss, Berry Gordy Jr, with the lines that helped him complete a song called Money (That’s What I Want). Gordy, then in the early stages of establishing Motown Records and searching for what would become the
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Janie Bradford obituary
Songwriter who contributed to the first record made at Motown’s Detroit studio and co-wrote many of the label’s hits Janie Bradford was a poetry-loving receptionist, not yet out of her teens, when she provided her boss, Berry Gordy Jr, with the lines that helped him complete a song called Money (That’s What I Want). Gordy, then in the early stages of establishing Motown Records and searching for what would become the
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