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TheTemptations, Stevie Wonder, Four Tops, Mary Wells, Diana Ross and The Supreme, Smokey Robinson and The Miracles, Marvin Gaye, The Commodores, Jackson 5 - The Complete Motown Anthology - Amazon.com Music
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This is a ten CD collection. The songs cover Motown's inception in the late 50s, to the early 80s. There are over 100 songs in this anthology, all remastered in stereo. Also enclosed is a booklet which not only lists the songs, but covers the history of Motown, Detroit and Los Angeles. The booklet does not give much credit to the great Funk Brothers band, which is my only complaint. they were actively involved in the songs recorded in Detroit. I believe this anthology was released in the mid 90s, and is a fine addition for any Motown lover.
This set is what we might kindly refer to as a crapfest. That is no slight on the music, which is drawn from Motown's priceless archives and consists mostly of undeniable classic hits.
But the configuration is really poor: About 10 tracks per CD. These are very short (mostly) Motown hits, and you could comfortably fit around 25 on a disc. So instead of 4 CDs, you have 10. Why? Well, to make this appear to be more than it is, of course. A 10CD set sounds so much more impressive than a 4CD set, right? More importantly, the manufacturers hoped to charge you accordingly.
On top of that, the sound quality is pretty poor, and this is certainly not going to be anyones "go to" set, if they have other decent Motown releases in their collection.
In the end, I can't see any reason anyone would buy this set, unless you find it for an extremely low price. And even then, the inconvenience of switching discs every 10-11 (short) tracks may well be a deal breaker.
This collection does not really take full advantage of the CD format. With about 30 minutes of music on each disc this collection could have been compiled on 4 CDs. The CD format really shows up the flaws in whatever generation of tape this collection was mastered from. It doesn't bother me that if the singles were originally issued in mono, they were issued in their mono versions here because USUALLY that means a fuller warmer sound. Unfortunately, despite the mono mix, these songs don't sound as full as they ought to.
For example, on The Four Tops 'I'll Be There' the bass is noticeably lacking in presence as compared to even some vinyl pressings. This was issued originally in 1997 so perhaps that explains the lack of remixing or noise reduction - many tracks are pretty hissy.
To Motown lovers, 76 of these tracks (with an additional 104 hits) are available on Hitsville USA: The Motown Singles Collection Volume One and Volume Two. Every song I compared between the two collections sounded colder on this set and warmer on the Hitsville collections.
I purchased this collection because The last track of discs 1, 2, 3, 5, 8 & 10 are all previously unreleased. These 6 tracks are unique to this collection and most of them are pretty good but not obvious 'hit' material. 24 other hits and Zoom by The Commodores (the only previously released track that was not a hit single) are collected here but not on the Hitsville USA collections.
Liner notes are superb and cover the history of Motown in the context of each artist below and their relationship with Barry Gordy and later producers. Photos are in black and white but very high quality.
As Amazon includes no track listing, here it is with release dates for the original singles. A * means that this song is NOT on the higher quality Hitsville collections. The previously unreleased tracks are marked as such.
CD 1 1. Barrett Strong - Money (That's What I Want) 2:35 1959-08 2. The Miracles - Shop Around 2:48 1960-10-15 3. The Contours - Do You Love Me 2:52 1962-06-29 4. The Marvelettes - Please Mr. Postman 2:28 1961-08-21 5. Little Stevie Wonder - Fingertips (Pt 2) 3:09 1963-05-21 * 6. Marvin Gaye - Hitch Hike 2:32 1962-12-19 7. The Miracles - Mickey's Monkey 2:45 1963-07-26 8. Martha Reeves & The Vandellas - (Love Is Like A) Heatwave 2:46 1963-07-10 9. The Temptations - The Way You Do The Things You Do 2:39 1964-01-23 10. Mary Wells - My Guy 2:48 1964-03-13 * 11. Mary Wells - A Lovely Way To Spend An Evening 2:40 Previously unreleased (recorded Apr 8, 1964) CD 2 1. The Supremes - Come See About Me 2:40 1964-10-27 2. The Supremes - Baby Love 2:35 1964-09-17 3. The Marvelettes - Beachwood 4-5789 2:12 1962-07-11 4. The Temptations - My Girl 2:55 1964-12-21 5. Four Tops - Baby, I Need Your Lovin' 2:44 1964-07-10 6. Jr. Walker & The All Stars - Shotgun 2:58 1965-01-14 * 7. Marvin Gaye - Can I Get A Witness 2:46 1963-09-20 8. Isley Brothers - This Old Heart of Mine (Is Weak For You) 2:45 1966-01-28 9. Four Tops - I Can't Help Myself (Sugar Pie Honey Bunch) 2:44 1965-04-23 10. The Miracles - OOO Baby Baby 2:43 1965-03-05 * 11. Kim Weston - Drop In The Bucket 2:20 previously unreleased (recorded Jun 10, 1963 - Sep 28, 1964) CD 3 1. Brenda Holloway - Every Little Bit Hurts 2:57 1964-03-26 * 2. The Temptations - Since I Lost My Baby 2:49 1965-06-01 * 3. The Supremes - Stop! In The Name of Love 2:51 1965-02-08 * 4. Four Tops - Reach Out, I'll Be There 2:59 1966-08-16 5. Marvin Gaye - How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved By You) 2:58 1964-11-04 6. Martha Reeves & The Vandellas - Dancing In The Streets 2:38 1964-07-31 7. The Temptations - (I Know) I'm Losing You 2:26 1966-11-02 8. Stevie Wonder - Uptight (Everything's Alright) 2:53 1965-11-22 * 9. The Supremes - Where Did Our Love Go 2:33 1964-06-17 10. The Miracles - The Tracks of My Tears 3:01 1965-06-23 * 11. Tammi Terrell - I Gotta Find A Way (To Get You Back) 2:53 previously unreleased (recorded May 1965-Aug 1967) CD 4 * 1. Jimmy Ruffin - What Becomes Of The Broken Hearted 3:01 1964-06-03 2. The Marvelettes - Don't Mess With Bill 2:49 1965-11-26 * 3. The Miracles - Going to A Go-Go 2:49 1965-12-06 4. The Temptations - Ain't Too Proud To Beg 2:32 1966-05-03 5. Stevie Wonder - For Once In My Life 2:49 1968-10-15 6. Martha & The Vandellas - Jimmy Mack 2:52 1967-02-03 7. Four Tops - Bernadette 3:00 1967-02-16 * 8. Diana Ross & The Supremes - Reflections 2:51 1967-07-24 * 9. Stevie Wonder - I Was Made To Love Her 2:36 1967-05-18 10. Gladys Knight & The Pips - I Heard It Through the Grapevine 2:53 1967-09-28 CD 5 1. Marvin Gaye & Kim Weston - It Takes Two 2:58 1966-12-05 2. The Temptations - I Wish It Would Rain 2:51 1967-12-21 * 3. The Originals - Baby, I'm For Real 3:18 1969-07-04 4. Jr. Walker & The All Stars - What Does It Take (To Win Your Love) 2:29 1969-04-25 5. Martha Reeves & The Vandellas - Nowhere to Run 2:57 1965-02-05 * 6. Gladys Knight & The Pips - Friendship Train 3:47 1969-10-06 7. Edwin Starr - War 3:26 1970-06-09 8. Smokey Robinson & The Miracles - The Tears Of A Clown 3:03 1970-09-24 * 9. Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell - You're All I Need To Get By 2:38 1968-07-09 10. Diana Ross & The Supremes - Love Child 3:01 1968-09-30 * 11. Stevie Wonder - Just Enough To Ease The Pain 3:06 Previously unreleased (recorded Jun 15-Aug 19, 1969) CD 6 1. The Temptations - Cloud Nine 3:36 1968-10-25 2. Marvin Gaye - I Heard It Through the Grapevine 3:12 1968-10-30 3. Bobby Taylor & The Vancouvers - Does Your Mama Know About Me 2:47 1968-02-27 * 4. Diana Ross & The Supremes - Someday We'll Be Together 3:33 1969-10-14 5. Stevie Wonder - Signed, Sealed, Delivered I'm Yours 2:46 1970-06-03 6. The Temptations - I Can't Get Next To You 2:54 1969-07-30 * 7. Gladys Knight & The Pips - The Nitty Gritty 3:00 1969-05-26 * 8. The Jackson 5 - I Want You Back 2:59 1969-10-07 9. The Spinners - It's A Shame 3:15 1970-06-11 10. The Undisputed Truth - Smiling Faces Sometimes 3:15 1971-05-13 CD 7 1. The Temptations - Just My Imagination (Running Away With Me) 3:52 1971-01-14 2. The Originals - The Bells 2:55 1970-01-09 3. The Supremes - Stoned Love 2:58 1970-10-15 4. The Jackson 5 - The Love You Save 3:03 1970-05-13 * 5. Rare Earth - Hey Big Brother 4:45 1971-11-04 6. Marvin Gaye - Mercy, Mercy Me (The Ecology) 2:29 1971-06-10 7. The Jackson 5 - Never Can Say Goodbye 2:59 1971-03-16 * 8. Stevie Wonder - My Cherie Amour 2:51 1969-01-28 9. The Temptations - Papa Was A Rollin' Stone 6:56 1972-09-28 10. Diana Ross - Touch Me In The Morning 3:27 1973-05-03 CD 8 1. Marvin Gaye - Let's Get It On 4:02 1973-06-15 2. Rare Earth - I Just Want to Celebrate 2:53 1971-06-21 3. Eddie Kendricks - Keep On Truckin' - Part 1 3:33 1973-07-26 * 4. The Temptations - Psychedelic Shack 3:51 1969-12-29 * 5. Michael Jackson - I Wanna Be Where You Are 2:57 1972-05-02 6. Marvin Gaye - What's Going On 3:55 1971-01-21 7. Gladys Knight & The Pips - If I Were Your Woman 3:11 1970-10-29 8. The Commodores - Brick House 3:32 1977-08-11 9. The Miracles - Love Machine - Part 1 2:59 1975-09-19 10. Thelma Houston - Don't Leave Me This Way 3:29 1976-11-18 * 11. Diana Ross & The Supremes - The Nitty Gritty 2:53 Previously unreleased (recorded Mar 18, 1968) CD 9 1. Marvin Gaye - Got To Give It Up (Pt. 1) 4:13 1977-03-15 2. The Dazz Band - Let It Whip 4:06 1982-02-12 3. David Ruffin - Walk Away From Love 3:17 1975-10-21 4. Diana Ross - Love Hangover 3:48 1976-03-16 5. Diana Ross - Upside Down 3:37 1980-06-20 6. Jermaine Jackson - Let's Get Serious 3:34 1980-02-25 * 7. Marvin Gaye - Distant Lover (live) 3:54 1974-09-05 8. The Commodores - Zoom 4:21 1974 9. Smokey Robinson - Cruisin' 4:28 1979-08-10 10. Eddie Kendricks - Boogie Down 3:52 1973-12-13 CD 10 1. Bonnie Pointer - Heaven Must Have Sent You 3:33 1979-03-22 2. The Jackson 5 - Dancing Machine 2:41 1974-09-05 * 3. The Commodores - Too Hot Ta Trot 3:31 1977-11-17 4. Teena Marie - Square Biz 3:40 1981-05-29 * 5. DeBarge - All This Love 4:08 1983-03-31 6. Dennis Edwards w/ Siedah Garrett - Don't Look Any Further 4:01 1984-01-12 7. The Commodores - Night Shift 5:03 1984-12-18 8. The Temptations - Treat Her Like A Lady 4:15 1984-10-01 * 9. Johnny Gill - My, My, My 4:06 1990-05-29 10. The Boys - Dial My Heart 4:22 1988-09-06 * 11. Boyz II Men - It's So Hard To Say Goodbye To Yesterday 2:48 1991-08-13 * 12. Dennis Edwards - Keep On Tryin' ('Til You Find Love) 2:11 Previously Unreleased (Oct 3, 1967-Jun 29, 1968)
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