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Made-For-Auto Show Group Revisits Look Of Motown

Listen to a typical crowd attending the North American International Auto Show, and one of the exhibits you’ll often hear mentioned doesn’t have anything to do with cars. It’s a group of three women dancing on a small stage to the music of Motown. And like the made-for-TV music group The Monkees, THIS group – called the Sweet Dreams – was created just for the auto show. WDET’s Quinn Klinefelter talked with the woman who created the group – Janet McCarty of the Somerset Collection’s Detroit Shoppe…