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Victoria's Secret is an American lingerie, clothing, and beauty retailer. Founded in 1977 by Roy and Gaye Raymond, [6][7] the company's five lingerie stores were sold to Les Wexner in 1982. [8] Wexner rapidly expanded into American shopping malls, growing the company into 350 stores nationally with sales of $1 billion by the early 1990s, when ...
Stanford Graduate School of Business (MBA; 1971) Occupation. Entrepreneur. Known for. Founder of Victoria's Secret. Spouse (s) Gaye Raymond (m. 1970s; div. 1990) Roy Larson Raymond (April 15, 1947 – August 26, 1993) [1] was an American businessman who founded the Victoria's Secret lingerie retail store in California in 1977. [2]
Distant Lover. from the album Marvin Gaye Live! " Distant Lover " is the sixth song issued on singer Marvin Gaye 's 1973 album, Let's Get It On and the B-side of the second single from that album, "Come Get to This". A live recording was issued as a single in 1974. The live version of the song was Gaye's most successful single during the three ...
Gaye's "I Heard It Through the Grapevine" eventually outsold the Pips', and until The Jackson 5 's "I'll Be There" 20 months later, was the biggest hit single of all time on the Motown label. It stayed at the top of the Billboard Pop Singles chart [25] for seven weeks, from December 14, 1968, to January 25, 1969. [2]
Inner City Blues (Make Me Wanna Holler) " Inner City Blues (Make Me Wanna Holler) ", often shortened to " Inner City Blues ", is a song by Marvin Gaye, released as the third and final single, and the climactic song from his 1971 landmark album, What's Going On. Written by Gaye and James Nyx Jr., the song depicts the ghettos and bleak economic ...
Got to Give It Up. "Got to Give It Up" (Pt. 1) "Got to Give It Up" (Pt. 2) " Got to Give It Up " is a song by American music artist Marvin Gaye. Written by the singer and produced by Art Stewart as a response to a request from Gaye's record label that he perform disco music, it was released in March 1977.
Come Get to This. " Come Get to This " is a song written and recorded by American recording artist Marvin Gaye. It was released as the second single off Gaye's album, Let's Get It On following the success of the title track. Recording sessions for the song first occurred in 1970 when Gaye worked on the song in a demo format while he made What's ...
An R&B ballad, it was the sixth track from their debut self-titled album [4] and was released as a single in 1971. It reached number 9 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 chart, [5] number 10 on the R&B chart [6] and reached number 24 on the Easy Listening chart. The Stylistics' record sold over one million copies globally, earning the band their ...