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  • I grew up with Motown... I am a big fan of Smokey Robinson.. great memories

  • Mr Stanelli? WHY no Grammy for the SUPREMES or DIANA ROSS? hmmm?

  • Glady's Knight and the SUPREMES?  smirks .....LOL

  • No Diana Ross???

  • Download the audio from this tune at soundnabber doht cohm.

  • @TGNolan01 People are crazy comparing Michelle to Jackie Kennedy! Now, RePaul yes  LOL

  • @supremes1964 Thanks. Gotta admit, when I posted that I was slamming some brewskies. But like the saying goes: A drunk man's words are a sober man's thoughts.

  • random........ 1:07:17

  • Michelle Obama sounds like a moron. Seriously. And what's with that pencil neck sining Sugar Pie Honey Bunch? I want to punch him in the face because he soudns ridiculous.

  • Michelle Obama is a fine m-f.

  • I LOVE MOTOWN!

  • I really love you NICK , and it was a really good job , GOD BLESS .

  • Smokey Robinson Could Easily be Mistaken as John Legend's Father.

    Seriously.

  • Nice.

  • This is good stuff. No question.

  • wow 1 hour wtf

  • John Legend's in the presence of legends.

  • just ask yourself: the music that is played today, will it be 'covered' by your grand/great grand children? that should tell you something about MOTOWN. i can't find the words to express my feelings. guess it's best to say GLORY TO GOD ALMIGHTYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY.

  • Incredible. I was skipping to see when Berry Gordy or Smokey Robinson got to talk, and it wasn't until something like 22 minutes! To put them on stage and let them wait for that long while you make your introductions..

  • Smokey Robinson is STILL the finest dude evah!

  • nick ruled the Motown <3_<3 even though u can't really hear john taylor's guitar

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  • WHY ARE YOU DOING TH IS////DO YOU HAVE TO REMIND ME THAT OUR CULTURE'S JUDGES OF NATURAL SCIENCE HAPPENS TO BELIVE TH AT RACIAL SKINS DIVIDE IS THE MOST ECONOMICALLY SYSTEM THAT ACTUALLY PULLS APART THE MINT AND THE PAPER IT IS PRINTED ON. COME ON ...

    JUST BECAUSE BLACK NORTHERN GIRLS GOT INDUSTRIOUS WITH THEIR OWN MEN.....MONEY FOR NOTHIN ,,,,CHECKS FOR FREE. DOWN THE HALL AND TO T HE RIGHT.....

  • @shiningstar8792 what!?

  • Nick Jonas must be good if Berry Gordy is dancing along. :)))

  • Nick is the best *_* awesome voice!

    This Motown was perfect and with the best singers!!!

  • check out the hottie groovin in the back right

  • Somebody get that white cracker in da glasses off da stage!! the White house ain't fo white folk no mo!!!!

  • Man, I missed it!!! I should've got up last night!!!

  • I am still trying to figure out just what the hell the white guy is up there for?

    He is blinding meeeee!!!! Get the white guy off the stage!!!! Put another brotha up there ya'll..... Motown in da big house... Hell Yeah ya'll!!!

  • The bigotry expressed by people on this event shows how Ignorant unexamined invective has become the mode of some public discourse. The world changes and any president in office has to respond as they think is best for this Country. Since it is obvious the persons commenting have not had the responsibility of serving in any capacity of value ,the credibility of the arguments are suspect. PRESIDENT Bush did have American musicians of all stripes including Country and Western ,Jazz & Classics.

  • So when is big mitchie gonna have Ted Nuggent host a Country Music ho-down? Bet The NUGGG - would have a few choice words before he sang ~

  • Hey if i ever get elected President, I am going to have "Grand Ole Opry Night"

    And the only two invited are Cowboy Troy and Charly Pride!! Brain it!!

  • @rich42012 well when you pasties CREATE YOUR OWN FORM OF MUSIC FOR ONCE IN YOUR EXISTENCE, maybe we will honor you until then lay back and play with your little pink pig tail(dick).

  • Excellent program and what a priviledge for those kids to see and hear the Motown royalty and the talented John Legend!

  • Whats that white guy there for?

  • LOVE YOU NICK JONAS!!

  • how can the beatles been the competition for the motown sound? man get serious, motown inspired them more let me hear one song that motown did and it was like a beatle song? the beatles are highly highly overated and song many song glamorizing drugs,and drug use.there was no other music like motown

  • Show em what color you are.. Motown night at the White House!! Show em that color!!!

  • @rich42012 Boogie,,, Woogie,, , LOL

    Its like a fuckin nightmare,

  • :35 Michelle is not a very good actress. You can tell what a militant he really is, and how that ghetto anger is boiling just below the surface. Believe me, she meant every word of it when she called America a "downright mean country", and that for the FIRST time in her life, she's now "proud" of her country. She should be watched closely by the FBI.

  • This is awesome. 

  • Ah show em all what color you are!!!!!

  • @rich42012 Yes, to show how we never consider race and are not prejudiced in any way.

    I can just imagine Bush having a Bach or Mozart festival at that White House, and saying how much those composers insoired him as a white man.

  • Even in the dead of winter mitchie has her guns out and heavily oiled ....lol!

  • Just another obama reverse racist YouTube!!! Next week, will she be honoring Hawaii music industry? Or history? Or Western music? ...me thinks not

  • John Legend: "My favorite MoTown artist is Stevie Wonder.

    Smokey Robinson: (background) "What"!

  • President Obama is GREAT !

  • @mitchthemich  Wow, lay off the kool aid.

  • It is so funny and sad that selective amnesia appears to be alive and well with the ignorant postings that are being made by those fueled with bigotry and hatred toward the current administration. Maturity is needed and is an equal opportunity employer.

  • For all of you "European-thinking people" that continue to embrace the very behaviors and thoughts of the your forefathers, let me be clear in stating that the US is in trouble because of the past administrations: not the present one. You clearly appear to have selective anmesia of how the economics of this country has spiraled out of control. @ WEASEL, Why was affirmative action created? The current state of the US exists because of decisions made by the previous administrations.

  • @bosstrainers Another Obama fruit loop.

  • @TheImpeacher - Continue to have a narrow mind set. I don't tolerate bullying in real time neither do I tolerate in the the cyber community. I don't mind helping any person become acquainted with our beloved judicial system. People with your mind set will not deter me from the right to exercise the freedom of speech and religion. I do so without resorting to bullying. Perhaps you have taken a bite of the forbidden fruit. Learn to exercise respect for others that disagree with your mind set.

  • Obama Schedule for Today:

    9:00 am breakfast

    10:00 am Hoops

    11:30 am Twittering

    12:01 pm Eat ribs and drink MadDog

    1:00 pm Loosen shoes after taking shit

    2:00 Pm turn up thermostat and nap

    3:00 pm Play basketball

    4:00 pm listen to national security briefing while twittering.

    5:00 pm get ready for Motown Celebration, watch Michelle grease legs.

  • @OBAMASTINKSLIKEANAPE LOL! You forgot to mention the teleprompter.

  • From the looks of it, Michelle hasn't been following the "roots and berries" diet that she demands of everyone else.

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  • Who cares about Motown!! It as dead as the first black presidents career!! I was glad to see a few crackers in there!! What a joke! I am sure George Washington just shit his pants and rolled over in it after watching this shit!! What about the American Indians? Shouldn't they be having pow-nights every Wednesday? Oops I forgot. Wrong race and color! This is where tax dollars really go. I wonder how much Motown night at the WHITE house cost the payers for this evening?

  • @rich42012 Politics aside, Motown is Americas gift to the world and is unappreciated.. No music has come out of USA that is more influential or culturally important.. Go listen to metallica and fantasize about taxpayers

  • I wish they would have gotten more Motown legends still performing today to perform at the White House instead of people like Sheryl Crow, Nick Jonas, Seal, John Legend...

  • michelle is freakin amazing..

  • @ssips720 I agree! She's got to be super strong on order to be able to lug around that fat ass.

  • hey Michelle do you think at one of these terrific parties between your expensive tax payer paid for vacations could you tell Barrack Obummer the mid east is on fire, unemployment is 9+% actually 15, gas is on the way to $5gal, were 3.7 trillion in debt after 2 years, people are struggling to keep their families in houses while you guys party like you are king and queen, however you are not we have elections and 2012 is right around the corner.

  • Everything Michelle says is true but seeing Berry Gordy up there I can't help but think of the slave operation he ran at Motown Records. There is a brilliant DVD titled 'Standing in the Shadows of Motown' that tells the story of a group of musicians who made Motown what it is but have nothing to show for it and were ever in the shadows.

  • @mogatsamasego Thats a good DVD.. Berry screwed over more people than just the funk brothers, Mary Wells died in poverty

  • Excellent review of a piece of musical & cultural history! Too few people today understand how important the sixties were; we took a quantum leap then, and much of the results persist. Michelle gave a very fine speech linking Motown with real social progress. Smokey & Barry did make history!

  • nick is the fucking white house people

    he's the real deal!

  • She is one class act!

  • :thumbs up: +FAV.!!

    I must say I had an amazing time at this event yesterday in DC. I was one of the students representing Chicago. Im really greatful that I had the honor to be in the WhiteHouse and to meet some awesome people. The day before, Wednesday, we got to see them in rehersal along with Jaime Foxx, Jordin Sparks, Seal, and more (but Stevie W hadn't made it yet.) I was beyond excited when I seen NICK JONAS!!. I loved the whole trip in all and wish to attendmany more in the future.

  • This would have been a nice chance for the supremes to get together. oh well. where are the marvelettes?

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  • Nick jonas = my sexy beast love for the jonas

  • Nick <3

  • Dancing while the world burns.

  • We love Motown.

  • Enjoyed this. A pleasure to see the White House host events that now include a wider range of entertainment choices which include black and white. The First Lady is also looking Gorgeous. And particularly even enjoy the hate spewed by the misinformed, blind, racist-minded few that do what they were born to do -- hate. Just remember, while you keep hating, we will keep loving the First Family which currently occupies the White House, second term or not.

  • @rodneycash1 Well stated!!!

  • Unbelievable!! Americans are so stupid!! This is why I DID NOT vote for OBAMA!! What a freaking joke! Come on America, really! Is this what you idiots voted for!!??

    Motown at the White House?? That doesn't even sound right!!

  • @rich42012 How about you are the stupid one you and who ever else dd not vote for PRESIDENT OBAMA.

    You stupid people hate him because of the color of his skin. Move to a another country or better still kill your self and go to the Devil's pitt hole where you belong

  • @mariahjizz, I'll move to another country when you learn how to spell. As for BlakFuk OlympDick and his wife Mochelle Queen Silverback, in case you had not noticed there are two new Republican congressmen, Allen West of Florida and Tim Scott of South Carolina. But we don't think of them as black we think of them as people. You of course would call the uncle tom or some other racist garbage.

  • Nice that this lazy ass piece of genetic shit could take out from playing basketball to do some hippity hop with his fellow africans. Obama Schedule for Today: 9:00 am breakfast 10:00 am Hoops 11:30 am Twittering 12:01 pm Eat ribs and drink MadDog 1:00 pm Loosen shoes after taking shit 2:00 Pm turn up thermostat and nap 3:00 pm Play basketball 4:00 pm listen to national security briefing while twittering. 5:00 pm get ready for Motown Celebration, watch Michelle grease legs.
  • @OBAMASTINKSLIKEANAPE Boy u people r such freaken haters what the h--- is wrong with you people? what ever the PRESIDENT and HIS WIFE do u people complain. I am so sick and tired of this world be devided. why don"t u haters move to another country

  • 01:07:16 NJ ♥

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  • I'm surprised Obama even has time for all this. I guess he and Michelle need a break from all those vacations.

  • You can't make this up. Here we have this terrible economy, MOUNTAINOUS debt, 10% unemployment, calamities in Egypt and Libya, war in Afghanistan, terrorism in Iraq, union thuggery in Wisconson and Indiana, and a million other problems, and all we see is the boastful ("Ah be da Prezdet!") Schvartze-in-Chief and First 'Ho shucking and jiving in the White House, living up to every possible negative stereotype of blacks. The Marx Brothers would have been better presidents. Can't WAIT for 2012.

  • @Weasler455 Me either so I can vote for him again ha ha ha

  • @mariahjaz Dumb shit.

  • @Weasler455 If you do not like living in America and cannot appear to respect the current administration, you are FREE to move to another country. It's THAT simple.

  • @bosstrainers Oh, I LOVE America. That's the whole issue! Because right now, we have a militant in the White House who, along with his militant wife ("For the first time, I'm proud of my country") hate the USA and its people. But I'll remember to use your nice words of "You are FREE to move to another country. It's THAT simple." when we get RID of this ILLEGAL "president" (Where's the birth certificate?) and YOU PEOPLE start rioting again and demand constant freebies.

    Welfare bitch.

  • @Weasler455 Before you attempt to provide another response, perhaps you should enroll in ENG 101 and learn "how to" formulate complete sentences. It amazes me that people appear to hate President Obama yet you continue to follow his every move. Again, no one forced you to view the presentation. Are you that ignorant to believe that his birth certificate is not legally binding and available? You are dumber than your forefathers that illegally stole the land from the Native Americans.

  • @bosstrainers

    His birth certificate is "legally binding"? What does THAT mean? That makes NO SENSE. The term legally binding refers to contracts. A birth certificate is not a "contract". As for it being "available", that's news to me, because our alleged "president" has hired three law firms at over $1 Million to make sure it is NOT available for us to see. That's the whole issue!

    Quit now while you're ahead, as I am still convinced you graduated from Grade 6.

  • @Weasler455 Continue to provide insults. You can have a personal experience with the judicial system. You are bullying the wrong person via cyberspace. Continue the have the "birther" mentality and you can join Wesley Snipes in a shared jail cell. Birth certificates, passports, tax documents and wills are legally binding documents. You are SO ignorant!!! Be convinced that your tactics can have you labled as a cyber bully. There are laws in place to keep help you learn how to govern your actions.

  • @bosstrainers You can dish it out but you cannot take it. You have the gall to tell me - a hardworking, honest, law-abiding tax paying American - that I should leave the USA if I don't like our alleged "president", AND that this is not even "my country" in the first place. But then you immediately cry like a child amd threaten "legal action" (LOL!) when it's given right back to you.

    Tell you what: I'm going to have YOU put in jail, for all the things you said to ME.

  • @bosstrainers You know, you have a HELL of a lot of nerve talking like that. What happened to all that "DIssent is the highest form of patriotism" crap we were hearing when it was used against Bush? Suppose we told the useless Jesse Jackson, with his 40 years of constant whining, that he was free to leave the USA, it's that simple? I can only IMAGINE the reaction! Yet now you get Obama as POTUS, you immediately tell US to leave our country, simply for pointing out the obvious. Incredible.

  • @Weasler455 The USA is not YOUR country. Your predecessors raped, pillaged and stole a country that was already inhabited by the Native Americans and Africans. NOW THAT'S A FACT!!! IT'S NOT YOUR COUNTRY!!! Drop the "ler" in your name and replace the ending with "el" because you are the personification of a weasel. And yes, I do have a HELL of a lot of nerve talking as I do. Get over it and become educated. I refuse to stoop to your inhuman level of providing condescending tones of euphemisms.

  • @bosstrainers If we follow that line of thinking, then Mexico does not belong to the Spanish-speaking Mexicans. It belongs to the Aztecs. Are you prepared to tell that to the Mexicans? Lots of luck.

  • @Weasler455 Just out of curiosity, why do you consider enjoying music a 'negative stereotype of blacks'?

    You're kind of making an ass out of yourself, Weasler.

  • @Jessenator It's not enjoying music that's the problem. It's the circumstances under which they chose to do so, which I clearly spelled out.

  • @Weasler455 You can't make THIS up: Under George W. Bush we had 9/11, war in Afghanistan, war in Iraq, a disastrous hurricane, soaring unemployment, a tanking economy, Enron, and jobs being shipped overseas abetted by Republican/conservative fiscal policies. Through it all, Bush became a champion at taking time off: In his first year, Obama took 26 "vacation" days, Bush took 77. (Reagan took 42.) In eight years, Bush took 1,020 days off. That's longer than Jack Kennedy was in office.

  • @typist64 Unemployment under George Bush never exceeded 5%. Under King Shit, it's now 10% (and expected to get worse), when he promised that his disasterous "stimulus package" would prevent it from going to 8%!!

    Yeah, there was a hurricane. Are you one of the nuts who think he CAUSED it? Time for your meds. And how's Nagin's buses?

    Yes, we had 9/11, and Bush took out a monster dictator and free 50 million. What did Slick Willie do after the Cole, besides having Monica go down on him?

  • @Weasler455 Obviously, Bush did not cause the hurricane. He responded to it slowly and ineffectively and in a way that made things toughest on the poorest. Also, the population of Iraq is 30 million. Under Saddam's gulag, an estimated 200,000 people died over a 23-year span. Estimates of Iraq deaths attributable to the US invasion range from 110,000 to 654,000. I'm sure that for Iraqis, it doesn't matter how your loved ones died. They are just dead.

  • @typist64 That 110,000 - 654,000 figure is TOTAL BULLSHIT. On the other hand, Saddam murdered far more than 200,000 (and they didn't just "die", they were MURDERED, pal). It is estimated that the bloodthirsty Saddam and his sons - who had people put feet first ALIVE into industrial shredders, would drill holes in people with power drills - murdered over 1 million.

    BTW, "Babby" Kennedy Jr. actually DID imply Bush somehow "caused" Katrina. The media, of course, said nothing about it.

  • @Weasler455 Of course they didn't just die, anymore than the Iraqis we killed just died. Saddam murdered them. In too many cases, we murdered them. The 1 million figure includes Iraqi deaths during the Iran and Kuwait wars.. Your unemployment numbers are off. Average rate during the 2nd Bush term was 5.3, but in the final five months of 2008 it was well over 6 percent. When Bush left office, it was above 8 percent, according to the Labor Department.

  • @typist64 I have not heard that "8% when Bush left office" figure, but it is irrelevant in any case. So Bush's 5-6% unemployment is a "massive amount of damage", but Obama's 10% recorded and 20% effective unemployment is "good". I see. Get a life, will you?

    We did not "murder" anyone. We took out a Monster Dictator and his thugs, who your glorious UN in 18 resolutions said had WMD, as well Hillary and Impeached Pres. Clinton. And we free 25 million people there and 25 million Afghans.

  • @Weasler455 It's not 10% It never was. The figures for February out today put it at 9%. The damage I was referring to was our standing with other countries. I'm pretty sure you don't care about that, but we need those folks if we want to deal with terrorism. That 110,000-plus figure is also backed by the World Health Organization, The Brookings Institution, Johns Hopkins, Iraq Body Count and US military documents leaked to WikiLeaks among many others. And your assertion is based on what?

  • @Weasler455 The stimulus package was proposed under which administration?

  • @ladycav09 OBAMA!!!! I'm not talking about the AIG bail-out. I'm talking about all of spending on infrastructure that Obama fought for.

    There you go blaming Bush again. If it was such a bad idea, why did King Shit push for it?

  • @Weasler455 So you're blaming Bush too right? Barack only had one vote in the Senate (although you'll probably lie and say he had all the power as a Senator)

  • @typist64 The difference between REAL Presidents Bush and Reagan vacations and alleged "president" Obama's vacations and that the REAL presidents spent the time off AT THEIR OWN HOMES, which were arranged as "second White Houses". In other words, they were working vacations. ALSO, they took their vacations during economic prosperity.

    Obama goes here, there, and everywhere. They are all VERY expensive, and are DISGRACE when we consider how many people are out of work and losing homes.

  • @Weasler455 They're all working vacations. Technology has made it so there's really no difference between being in Texas or being in Hawaii. In 2009, I believe Obama took four vacations -- to Chicago, Marthas Vineyard, Mass., a western swing through three or four states,and Hawaii. These are hardly exotic or expensive locations. In 2010, he took six vacations totaling 32 days. Michelle Obama's trip to Spain -- I can see where people would have a problem with that.

  • @typist64 You have a very selective medical marijuana memory. Here's some data for you:

    Vacations: Since taking office: 10 spanning 58 days

    Foreign trips: 6 trips to 8 countries spanning 22 days.

    Since taking office: 16 trips to 25 countries spanning 70 days.

    Golf: 29 rounds in 2010

    Since taking office: 57 rounds.

    Basketball: 20 basketball outings.

    Since taking office: 28

  • @Weasler455 The numbers aren't mine. The 110,000 comes from the Iraqi Health Commission and is documented. The higher number is an estimate by Lancet, the British medical journal. As for vacation time, we both came up with the same number over two years, 10 and 58. As for Obama's trips overseas, all presidents do that. It's part of the job. Especially when you have to repair the massive amount of damage Bush did. About the basketball -- didn't Bush go running just about every day?

  • @typist64 I didn't say they were yours. But they are bullshit nevertheless. And screw you about "massive amount of damage". Since the Affirmative Action Miracle took office, unemployment has skyrocketed (actually, it's now close to 20% when you count those who have just given up looking for work ), and Obama has now created TRILLION dollar deficits.

    Please, if you're going to spew these DailyKos lies, just shut the hell up.

  • @Weasler455 One last thing to prove the point and then I'll take a break. George W. Bush was the most traveled president in US history. He took 138 trips to Europe, Africa and Asia over eight years. That includes 11 in his first two years. Have a good day.

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  • Love Motown :)

  • Very cool of the First Lady paying tribute to the creators of the greatest music of the 20th century.

  • I was there! It was amazing! When they said we have a special surprise for you guys, I thought it was Stevie Wonders or someone great, then BAAMMM and it was Nick Jonas :(

  • 33:07 very inspirational.

    33:20 We are grateful for Detroit's talent boom in music. Too bad it let UAW, Teacher's and other Unions combined with liberal policies & legislation bring it to ruins and poverty in about 50 years. Good folks move away, and the remaining get poorer.

  • thanks for this!

  • I thought Jesse Thorn was in this video.

  • smokey still smokey!

  • Finally A Video Of the First Lady!!! LOL Whoever does the posting has forgot about Michelle Obama Speeches! Gesh. However, THANKS!

  • @EyeCandy16 Yeah. Like her keynote speech at the Democratic National Convention. She was beautiful and inspirational!

  • @thudor1 Right! like she always is, I would have also loved to see The First Lady speech on the anniversary of "Lets Move."

  • what a sad finish with the two beach peakers...that was uncalled for...

  • Mr. President,

    We like you.

  • @jshjamaarify No we DON'T.

  • @jshjamaarify Im assuming with a statement like that you are obviously not a tax payer, not looking for a job, dont have a son or daughter in Afghanistan, are not a business owner... but what i do believe is you are probably a leach looking for the Obama free bees where I pay your bills, think 3.7 trillion is not alot of money to spend to get nothing, dont know how bad 9+% (act 15%) unemployment is because you dont look for work, live for free so nothing bothers you unless your check is late

  • @gmco4 It's amazing that President Obama was able to create a 3.7 trillion debt in almost four years while Bush had a 3.7 trillion surplus

  • @jshjamaarify Uh, you only speak for the idiots in America. Obama, bye bye in 2012!

  • @truthforamerica I honestly can't wait until the Republican hero (or any other person) comes into office and turn the debt into a trillion dollar surplus and helps everyone who doesn't have a job right now get a job.

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