Barney Ales

Biography

Baldassare "Barney" Ales (May 13, 1934 – April 17, 2020) was an American music industry executive best known as a leading figure and sometime company president at Motown Records. He is credited with successfully promoting the black-owned company in the wider white-dominated music industry in the US.

Bio from Wikipedia

Discography

Records they worked on — most-collected first.

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  Anthology

  1974

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  Collected

  2014

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  Marvin Gaye And His Girls

  1969

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  Tamla Meets Tijuana

  1971

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  What's The Matter With You Baby / Once Upon A Time

  1964

Credited work

252 releases · 61 albums · active 1961–2024

• Performance · 305
• Production · 24
• Other credits · 20

Studios: United Sound Systems · HDH Sound Studios · The Disc Ltd. · PR Music Studio

Frequent collaborators

• Various
• Marvin Gaye
• The Supremes
• Twistin' Kings
• Mary Wells
• Herman Griffin
• Kim Weston
• Ronnie McNeir

Around the web

• Wikipedia