The singer made her mark in the early 1960s with hits including 'Mashed Potato Time' and 'Gravy (For My Mashed Potatoes).' ...

The year 1970 was an excellent one for solo female acts on the pop charts. These four ladies were all over radio back then.

The song made chart history when the duo returned an iconic 1961 Motown hit to the No. 1 spot ...

The music world lost another legend over the weekend with the death of Janie Bradford. She was 87. Her family said she died following an extended illness Saturday at Cedars-Sinai Hospital in Los ...

One of the label’s first hires, she worked on “Money (That’s What I Want)” and went on to have a hand in many other songs. By Clay Risen Janie Bradford, a songwriter who, as a jill-of-all-trades in ...

Bradford Hobbs died on Saturday at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, where she had long lived, her family said. Although she later founded Mountain Goat Music and opened the Music Notes Gift ...

Janie Bradford Hobbs, an early Motown songwriter who co-wrote "Money (That’s What I Want)" and penned songs recorded by Marvin Gaye, Stevie Wonder and other music legends, has died after an extended ...

Motown hit songwriter, record executive, poet and education advocate Janie Bradford has died, just months after she was inducted into the Women Songwriters Hall of Fame. Bradford died Friday, Aug. 21, ...

Janie Bradford Hobbs, a key player in Motown’s early hitmaking machine, has died in Los Angeles at 87. The longtime LA resident died Saturday at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center following an extended ...

Janie Bradford, the co-writer on Motown’s first hit “Money (That’s What I Want)” and other songs for the famed Detroit label, has died at the age of 87. Bradford’s family announced the songwriter’s ...

She also co-wrote songs recorded by Marvin Gaye, Stevie Wonder and Mary Wells. By Associated Press Early Motown songwriter Janie Bradford Hobbs, who helped pen hits including “Money (That’s What I ...