Hitsville U.S.Eh! (2017)

Detroit gave the World the Gift of Motown, and Canada lent a Helping Hand. There is no other branded musical sound as powerfully recognizable the world over as that which came out of a modest two-story framed house in motor town Detroit in the 1960s. This documentary explores that success and the formula upon which success was built, but most importantly, this documentary explores the important role Canada played in that success. Indeed, there was no stopping a beautiful dream, built on a passion for good things, but a little help along the way, from just south of the US border at Detroit, certainly accelerated that success. Growing up in the midst of that Motown boom was Carvin Winans, a prominent musical family member and 5 times Grammy Award-winning performing group The Winans. As Carvin recalls - " - in Detroit, I was raised around the Motown sound, and ...on our street, we had Stevie Wonder, a couple of streets down was Smokey Robinson. I even shoveled Smokey Robinson's driveway as a child coming up. Marvin Gaye lived a few blocks over - the Four Tops this way, so we were surrounded." The recollections, reflections and revealing interviews of Carvin, now a Canadian, and his prominent music industry personal friends add tremendous vividness to the Motown history presentation, and the inspiration for the timeless, beautiful music delivered to the world enjoy forever. The subject interviews are profiled and diverse, including Martha Reeves, Smokey Robinson and Quincy Jones.