Dancing in the street

When twenty-year-old Martha Reeves landed a job as the A & R secretary at Motown Records in 1961, she knew that she was merely waiting in the wings for her lucky break. When the opportunity arose, Reeves seized the moment and delivered a performance that was so electrifying that Motown president Berry Gordy, Jr., offered her a contract of her own. As the lead singer of Martha & The Vandellas, she has had one of the most dazzling careers in popular music. Million-selling hit recordings - "Come and Get These Memories," "(Love Is Like a) Heat Wave," "Quicksand," "Jimmy Mack," "Nowhere to Run," and "Dancing in the Street" - not only helped to put Detroit and Motown Records on the musical map but have made Reeves one of the most thrilling and beloved women in musical history. Living a fairy-tale existence, headlining nightspots such as Detroit's riverside Roostertail, the Copacabana in New York City, and The Whiskey A-Go-Go in L.A., and becoming friends with show business legends such as Judy Garland, Eartha Kitt, Robert Mitchum, Nancy Wilson, James Brown, Della Reese, and songbird Dusty Springfield, Martha enjoyed the sweet life that fame and musical glamour brings. But as the stakes o