During the mid-1960s, Motown selected California vocalist Chris Clark as a potential answer to the success of legendary blue-eyed soul star Dusty Springfield.

Chris Clark was a 17-year-old, 6-foot platinum blond when she arrived at Motown’s Detroit headquarters in 1963 -- demo in hand -- to audition for Berry Gordy. “Berry kept me waiting in his ...

Chris Clark was a tall, blond 20-year-old Air Force brat out of Marin County when she signed with Motown Records as the label's first white artist in 1966. "I didn't see it as a problem," says ...

Starr died April 2, 2003, following a heart attack. Chris Clark was Motown's answer to Dusty Springfield. The 6-foot blonde from California traveled to Detroit in 1963 to audition for Motown.

Chris Clark is one of those great, seldom-told stories in Motown. She was Californian, blond and white, at a time when Motown wasn't recording many white artists. She came to the label in 1963 ...

Chris Clark was one of the very few white artists who recorded for Motown. Clark, a 6-foot-tall blond from California had a soulful voice that fit right in at Motown, although she looked nothing ...

Chris Clark in the studio with Berry Gordy, Lamont Dozier and Stevie Wonder. Bandleader Earl Van Dyke with the in-house Motown musicians who played on the Tamla-Motown UK package tour, pictured in ...

“Motown Unreleased 1969” also features songs ... Ivy Jo, “It’s Love I Need” 4. Chris Clark, “My World Is Empty Without You” 5. The Temptations, “Pretty Little Brown Skin Girl ...

Paul Nixon, from Motown: The Sound of Young America, Thames & Hudson Chris Clark in the studio with Berry Gordy, Lamont Dozier and Stevie Wonder Even the Motown production philosophy had a ring ...

has said it thrice, and he'll say it again: Teena Marie was NOT Motown's 1st honky recording artist. Show Chris Clark some r-e-s-p-e-c-t." Austin's right about one thing: Marie wasn't the first.