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To promote the career of Tommy Good, a white singer recently signed to Motown Records, the company's publicist Al Abrams stages a 'protest march' by white teenagers to Motown's Hitsville U.S.A. offices in Detroit, Michigan, USA. In fact, Good is conveniently in the offices and comes out to perform his single, Baby I Miss You, for the assembled crowd. The event is a parody of recent civil rights marches, and the teenagers have been specially bussed-in by Motown.Full article:
The march caught everyone at the Company completely off guard and succeeded in tying up rush hour traffic over a busy eight block area. There were two minor accidents as homeward bound motorists stopped to look at the unusual spectacle. Said Mr. Gordy of the demonstration,
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