13 R&B Bands from 60s & 70s That Got Destroyed For STEALING Songs

13 R&B Bands from 60s & 70s That Got Destroyed For STEALING Songs They built the sound. They gave Motown its first number one. They made the record that launched a label, wrote the hook everyone knows, created the groove that an entire genre got built on. And then the industry took it — through fraud, through neglect, through contracts written to confuse teenagers who just wanted to sing. This is the story of thirteen R&B groups from the sixties and seventies who had their music stolen, their catalogs taken, their names treated as trademarks owned by someone else. The Shirelles, who discovered on their twenty-first birthdays that the trust fund they were promised had never existed. The Spinners, who spent nine years at Motown driving other groups around as chauffeurs and shipping clerks before Aretha Franklin convinced them to leave — and they became legends the moment they did. Gladys Knight and the Pips, who made the biggest-selling single in Motown history, only to watch the same label release a different version of the exact same song thirteen months later to erase them. The Drifters, whose members were salaried employees who owned nothing — not even the right to use the name they performed under. And George Clinton, who invented the funk and spent thirty years in court alleging that forged documents had stolen ninety percent of his catalog while the world danced to his music without knowing. These aren't rumors. Every story on this list is documented. Some of it is going to make you angry. Some of it is going to break your heart. All of it is real. RnB Vinyl is where the full story gets told. Subscribe if you want to keep hearing it. #RnBHistory #SoulMusic #MotownHistory #RnBVinyl #GeorgeClinton #GladysKnight #TheShirelles #TheSpinners #TheDrifters #MarthaAndTheVandellas #ClassicSoul #BlackMusicHistory #MusicIndustry #SongStealing #60sSoul #70sSoul #FunkMusic #ParliamentFunkadelic #TheChiffons #RnBCountdown R&B history, soul music history, Motown history, stolen songs, music industry exploitation, George Clinton Parliament Funkadelic, Gladys Knight Pips I Heard It Through the Grapevine,