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This promotional image released by NBC shows Smokey Robinson, left, and Halle Bailey, who will host the holiday special "A Motown Christmas." (NBCUniversal via AP)

Smokey Robinson and Halle Bailey to host ‘A Motown Christmas’ special honoring the label’s legacy

Smokey Robinson and Halle Bailey, bridging Motown’s old and new school, will host a a holiday special to honor the groundbreaking record label that changed the music landscape.

FILE - Duke Fakir holds his life time achievement award backstage at the 51st Annual Grammy Awards in Los Angeles on Feb. 8, 2009. Fakir wrote a memoir, "I'll Be There: My Life With The Four Tops." Fakir, the last of the original Four Tops, died Monday of heart failure at age 88.(AP Photo/Matt Sayles, File)

Abdul ‘Duke’ Fakir, last of the original Four Tops, is dead at 88

Otis Williams, a vocalist with The Temptations, talks with Motown Museum's Hitsville NEXT programming participants in Detroit, Wednesday, Oct. 4, 2023. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)

Temptations, Four Tops on hand as CEO shares what’s going on with Motown Museum’s expansion plans

FILE - Jacqueline Avant, left, and Clarence Avant appear at the 11th Annual AAFCA Awards in Los Angeles on Jan. 22, 2020. Clarence Avant, the manager, entrepreneur, facilitator and adviser who helped launch or guide the careers of Quincy Jones, Bill Withers and many others and came to be known as “The Godfather of Black Music,” has died. He was 92. His death was announced Monday by his family. Jacqueline Avant was murdered in their Beverly Hills home in 2021. (Photo by Mark Von Holden Invision/AP, File)

Clarence Avant, ‘Black Godfather’ of entertainment, and benefactor of athletes and politicians, dies

FILE - Singer Tony Bennett reacts to the crowd during his performance at comedians Jon Stewart's and Stephen Colbert's Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear on the National Mall in Washington, Saturday, Oct. 30, 2010. Bennett, the eminent and timeless stylist whose devotion to classic American songs and knack for creating new standards such as "I Left My Heart In San Francisco" graced a decadeslong career that brought him admirers from Frank Sinatra to Lady Gaga, died Friday, July 21, 2023. He was 96. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)

Elton John, Berry Gordy, Scorsese and more friends and admirers of Tony Bennett react to his death

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