437 Barrett Strong (1941- ) “Money (That’s What I Want)” 1960

“Barrett Strong was a part-time gospel singer and a Ray Charles fan who met the would-be record entrepreneur Berry Gordy in 1957. He cut his first single, the low-fi Let's Rock, for the then tiny Tamla label in 1959, but hit paydirt the following year when Gordy picked up on a riff Strong was playing on the piano and turned it into Money (That's What I Want). One of Motown's earliest and funkiest hits, it established itself as one of the great records of the early 1960s”  (John Clarke, The Times UK, 5/22/2004). 

Barrett Strong “Money (That’s What I Want”