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

Here's Fawn to tell us her story.

My father was one of the original Motown hit makers.

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 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 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.

And 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 may 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

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