Mr. Gordy's "hit factory" approach was responsible for some of the most enduring rock records of the 1960's.
The special is best when it goes behind the scenes to examine how the hit factory worked.
Atlantic Records was happy to let them fade away, while sucking up the back-catalogues and talents of regional hit factories such as Stax.
Stock Aitken Waterman is a hit factory, and can probably make good, fluffy pop dance music in its sleep.
Philadelphia's teen idols are often criticised, but on the West Coast Phil Spector's hit factory produced a string of classic records.
Through those years, Disney not only revived its animation franchise but expanded its theme parks, created a retail merchandise business and became a live-action hit factory.
He admitted his hit factory had stagemanaged much of her career, using the age-old ploy of staying ahead of the game.
Microsoft will try to create demand for its new machine by showing that its own game development operation is a budding hit factory.
In 1987 he made a movie for another success from the hit factory Calabromas: Johny Tolengo, el majestuoso.
Since then it has become a 'tween-lit hit factory.