It seems Mary Wells, for a teenager or early twenties wasn’t uneducated about the business, of contracts and royalties which eventually gotten her out , of her contract with Motown which was being led, by it’s founder Berry Gordy. And many deep Temptations fans to this day don’t think the Temptations really terminated David Ruffin, but do feel that Gordy didn’t like the independent Ruffin asking about the groups royalties. So, he probably used manipulation to get him, ou of the group.

Also, who’s really surprised that when Diana Ross thought she owned many items as her own. All she really was doing was leasing them, from her lover, at the time Berry Gordy. Blind faith,where you’re lead and refuses to question anything? We know the slogan: “A fool that follow and don’t ask anything” don’t have a right after problems arises to question anything. Because we all have our own brain.

So, you wonder just how rich is Smokey Robinson? I doubt he truly really know because his faith in Berry Gordy runs deep. Even, when he was added, to the executive branch, of Motown, while in his twenties the odds are high that he didn’t have the business sense to know if he was getting scammed. And, I’m not saying he was but you do wonder if an audit was initiated what other problems would have been found under Gordy’s leadership.

From Shop Around, My Guy, My Girl, and all the other great tunes he wrote. Maybe he should have took the advice, of the hit he and Robert Rogers, wrote for the Contours called “First I Look At The Pures”. Many, of us notice that those that stayed quiet and never question anything became successful without suing Gordy’s Motown during his reign.

Sure, he tolerated Gaye because he was marry to his sister Anna Gordy. He tolerated Stevie Wonder because, of his youth. Who probably wasn’t scammed on royalties, as a youth because he had a publishing before any other Motown act. Still, you wonder about that too.

We hear about the ways, of Morris Levy when it comes to artist and royalities? We hear about Nat Tarnopol alleged dealing with Jackie Wilson. And the same thing that made Gordy quit dealing with his managers is the same thing he faced, as a owner.

Somethings he adapted and learned it seems, from others to make him richer. Of course blind faith contributed o it. As great as some people can be doesn’t mean we all don’t make mistakes