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This is a truly gorgeous CD reissue – the kind of 6CD sexpot that
actually is worth standing up Scarlett Johansson for (well maybe).
I diligently collected all of these now-legendary Hip-O Select
American-issued Book Volumes except of course (like a pillock) the elusive and
expensive Vol. 6 covering 1966 (a very stupid oversight). My advice would be
not to make that same mistake with 'any' volume in this extraordinary series.
Much to discuss - so let's hear from 'My Cherie Amour' right away...
US released December 2007 - "The Complete Motown Singles Vol.
9: 1969" by VARIOUS ARTISTS on Hip-O Select/Motown B-0010270-02 (Barcode
602517507722) is a 6CD 148-Track Book Set with Front-Cover Attached 45 (a repro
of the US single "I Want You Back" by The Jackson 5) – A Non-Numbered
Limited Edition of 6000 Copies (CDs are Volumes 44 to 49) that plays out as
follows:
CD1, Disc 44, 72:55 minutes (23 Tracks)
The A&B-sides of 10 US singles by Edwin Starr, Diana Ross
& The Supremes, Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell, The Originals (one extra
Alternate Mix), David Ruffin, Soupy Sales, Stevie Wonder (Promo and Commercial
Versions of the A-side as well as the more famous B-side "My Cherie
Amour"), The Temptations, Shorty Long (Three Tracks, two different A-sides
offered - one was withdrawn) and Gladys Knight & The Pips
CD2, Disc 45, 71:39 minutes (25 Tracks)
The A&B-sides of 12 singles by Diana Ross & The Supremes
and The Temptations, Chuck Jackson (one extra Alternate Long Version of the
B-side "Are You Lonely For Me Baby"), The Fantastic Four, Martha
Reeves & The Vandellas, Earl Van Dyke, Jonah Jones, Diana Ross & The
Supremes, Billy Eckstein, Marvin Gaye, Four Tops, The Honest Men and Jr. Walker
& The All Stars
CD3, Disc 46, 71:51 minutes (25 Tracks)
The A&B-sides (see NOTE) of 13 singles by The Temptations, The
Isley Brothers, The Originals, Diana Ross & The Supremes, (one extra
Alternate Take of the A-side "No Matter What Sign You Are"), Edwin
Starr, Gladys Knight & The Pips, Smokey Robinson & The Miracles (four
tracks - two singles – the second 45 5565 is A-side only but has an extra
Alternate Mix), David Ruffin, Diana Ross & The Supremes and The
Temptations, Captain Zap and The Motortown Cut-Ups, Bobby Taylor and The
Lollipops
(NOTE: The Isley Brothers, The Originals and one of the two Smokey
Robinson & The Miracles single - A-sides only)
CD4, Disc 47, 74:18 minutes (25 Tracks)
The A&B-sides (see NOTE) of 13 singles by Blinky & Edwin
Starr, Terry Johnson, Bobby Taylor, The Temptations, Marvin Gaye, Chuck
Jackson, The Originals, Martha Reeves & The Vandellas, Wes Henderson, Diana
Ross & The Supremes and The Temptations, Shorty Long, The Fantastic Four
and Joe Harnell
(NOTE: Bobby Taylor - A-side only)
CD5, Disc 48, 71:49 minutes (24 Tracks)
The A&B-sides of 11 singles by The Marvelettes, Stu Gardner
(three tracks, one extra A-side), Monk Montgomery, Stevie Wonder (three tracks,
one extra A-side), Arthur Adams, Jr. Walker & The All Stars, Gladys Knight
& The Pips, The Spinners, The Jackson 5, Jimmy Ruffin and Dorothy, Oma
& Zelpha
CD6, Disc 49, 75:43 minutes (26 Tracks)
The A&B-sides of 12 singles by Diana Ross & The Supremes,
Four Tops, Chuck Jackson, Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell, Rare Earth, David
Ruffin (one extra Alternate Mix), Smokey Robinson & The Miracles (one extra
Alternate Mix), Anonymous Children Of Today, The Rustix, The Five Smooth
Stones, Marvin Gaye and The Temptations
As you can see from the lists above, CD3 in this 6-disc set for
instance contains tracks by The Isley Brothers, The Originals and Smokey
Robinson & The Miracles that have only the A-side – this will be because
the flip will have been on Volume 8 for 1968 or Volume 7 for 1967 and so on
(the liner notes tell you what master-volume contains the B-side). Also, if you
take CD1, you notice that it has a Shorty Long release that had different
A-sides on the Motown sheets so this set provides both – stunning attention to
collector detail. And you can see that acts like Soupy Sales, The Honest Men,
Anonymous Children Of Today, The Five Smooth Stones, Dorothy, Oma & Zelpha
and Captain Zap and The Motown Cut-Ups are not exactly household names that trip
of your average Soul fan's tongue – so deep level stuff sitting alongside hits
like Marvin being "Too Busy Thinking About My Baby" or The
Temptations pondering life in the "Psychedelic Shack".
You have to talk about the presentation of these things that in
every case will have a Motown/Soul Music fan weak at the knees. I have bought
and reviewed a lot of tasty Hip-O Select reissues – Muddy Waters, Jimmy Cliff,
Emitt Rhodes, Tammi Terrell, Howlin’ Wolf, The 15-Disc Chess Story, Stephen
Bishop, Buddy Miles and so on. But these Motown Volumes are the best they ever
did – a profoundly fab project that eventually stretched out from 1959 to 1972
with 75 CDs and 1847 Tracks. All transfers were taken from original tapes and
included the Single Mono Mixes, Stereo Versions if on Promo 45s, Previously
Unreleased Variants and full annotation for every single song. You get
catalogue numbers, musician personnel, Producers, overdub details, Billboard
R&B and Pop chart placements (if any) and long paragraphs on the recording
and its history.
As the packaging has to fit a 45 single on the front cover – the
140 pages of text are large inside the hardback book – allowing full-page
colour plates that are genuinely some of the most beautifully rendered photos
of Soul Artists that I’ve ever seen. The six discs are housed in individual
card leaves at the back with three indexes preceding them – By Artist, By Title
and By Label. This allows collectors a way of tracking what they need – very
thorough. The only minor miscall for UK fans would be that every catalogue
number is American – if you want their British equivalents – I cannot recommend
enough a book I reviewed a good few years ago now called “TAMLA MOTOWN: The
Stories Behind The UK Singles” by TERRY WILSON - a tall paperback with over 710
pages published by Cherry Red Books. It provides both the US and UK details and
is the very best reference source on TM you can get.
The Audio comes via an Engineer I’ve sung the praises of before –
ELLEN FITTON – one of Universal’s top Remaster types. Across a total of 148
tracks, you get 71 singles and there are just so many great discoveries in here
– the beautifully soulful Originals assuring us that "We've Got A Way Out
Of Love", the wall of male-singer class that was Chuck Jackson on his
"Are You Lonely For Me Baby", Blues Guitarist extraordinaire Arthur
Adams feeling "It's Private Tonight" for him and his gal while Rare
Earth span that Rock/Soul divide with their wake-up people tune
"Generations (Light Up The Sy) ". And of course you get to return to
absolute Mono classics, as you would have heard them on the radio of the day -
"Twenty Five Miles" by Edwin Starr, "I Can't Get Next To
You" by The Temptations, "My Whole World Ended..." by David
Ruffin and loads more. You can also feel the winds of change on this Box set
like that of 1967 and 1968 as soppy Saturday night girly themes get
supplemented with worries of the day – picket signs and picket lines – I'm
still a struggling man – everybody needing clarity and a safe home as the dark
clouds get even darker both domestically and abroad.
If you can't afford the physical product in 2020 (which ranges
from £80 to over £90) - the MP3 version of 1969 sometimes becomes available
from Amazon as a Download for £39.99 (individual tracks are usually 99p).
Either way - if you want to hear 'The Sound Of Young America' at
its best – then look no further my fellow traveller. Stunning...
"The Complete Motown Singles" Series by Hip-O Select
(14 Releases as of September 2020)
75 x CD Volumes, 1847 CD Tracks Plus 28 Tracks On 14 x 7"
Vinyl Singles
1. Volume 1: 1959-1961,
Released January 2005, Catalogue No. Hip-O Select B-0003631-02 (Barcode
602517643310), 6CDs, Ltd Edition of 5000 (Non-Numbered), 155 Tracks, CDs are
Volumes 1 to 6
2. Volume 2: 1962, May
2005, 4CDs, B-00004402-02 (Barcode 602517807552), Ltd Edition of 8000 (Non
Numbered), 112 Tracks, Volumes 7 to 10
3. Volume 3: 1963, October
2005, B-0005352-02 (Barcode 602517845691), 5CDs, Ltd Edition of 7500
(Non-Numbered), 119 Tracks, Volumes 11 to 15
4. Volume 4: 1964, February
2006, B-0005945-02 (Barcode 602517882443), 6CDs, Ltd Edition of 8000
(Non-Numbered), 163 Tracks, Volumes 16 to 21
5. Volume 5: 1965, August
2006, B-0006775-02 (Barcode 602517789414), 6CDs, Ltd Edition of 8000
(Non-Numbered), 166 Tracks, Volumes 22 to 27
6. Volume 6: 1966, November
2006, B-0007872-02 (Barcode 602517092761), 5CDs, Ltd Edition of 6000
(Non-Numbered), 125 Tracks, Volumes 28 to 32
7. Volume 7: 1967, May
2007, B-0008993-02 (Barcode 602517341906), 5CDs, Ltd Edition of 6000
(Non-Numbered), 120 Tracks, Volumes 33 to 37
8. Volume 8: 1968, October
2007, B-0009708-02 (Barcode 602517431775), 6CDs, Ltd Edition of 6000
(Non-Numbered), 144 Tracks, Volumes 38 to 43
9. Volume 9: 1969, December
2007, B-0010270-02 (Barcode 602517507722), 6CDs, Ltd Edition of 6000
(Non-Numbered), 148 Tracks, Volumes 44 to 49
10. Volume 10: 1970, June 2008, B-0011056-02 (Barcode
602517659209), 6CDs, Ltd Edition of 8000 (Non-Numbered), 144 Tracks, Volumes 50
to 55
11. Volume 11A: 1971, February 2009, B-0011579-02 (Barcode
602517776555), 5CDs, Ltd Edition of 8000 (Non-Numbered), 119 Tracks, Volumes 56
to 60
12. Volume 11B: 1971, January 2010, B-0012227-02 (Barcode
602517876903), 5CDs, Ltd Edition of 8000 (Non Numbered), 120 Tracks, Volumes 61
to 65
13. Volume 12A: 1972, May 2013, B-0012935-02 (Barcode
602527044453)), 5CDs, Ltd Edition of 7500 (Non Numbered), 117 Tracks, Volumes
66 to 70
14. Volume 12B: 1972, December 2013, B-0019213-02 (Barcode
602537532193), 5CDs, Ltd Edition of 7500 (Non Numbered), 100 Tracks, Volumes 71
to 75
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