This is Lee Habib, and this is Our American Stories, and we tell stories about everything here on this show, from the arts to sports and from business to history, and everything in

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Your stories are some of our favorites. And today, Robbie brings us the story of Fawn Weaver.

Here's Fawn to tell us her story.

It's time to make a change.

My father was one of the original Motown hitmakers. There were always Motown folks in the house. Everywhere you would turn,

there were gold and platinum records and a billboard that now just tracks the top,

you know, 100 or top 200 hits. They used to track producers in the nation and who had the most

hits. And I remember looking at one of the

placards one day and going, hey, my dad was the number two producer in the nation. But the irony

is, is that even though we always had these people around, we were not a part of it. The year that I was born, 1976, my father decided not to

sign another contract with Barry Gordy's and Motown. Not for any reason that you might hear

out there in regard to Barry's contracts and 360 deals and all the rest of that stuff.

My father was one of a very few number of those in the very, very beginning that always maintained

his masters.

It truly was just he felt as though he had been called to ministry and away from the music business.

So if you can imagine that the year that I was born, my mother and father had this

massive home on the top of the hill in Hollywood Hills and all the celebrities would come

to their home. He'd throw these huge parties and all the rest of that.

And then he decides, I am going to not sign another contract.

I've been called by God.

God will make a way for everything.

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