"The Complete Westbound Recordings 1973-76" by JUNIE [Walter "Junie" Morrison, ex Ohio Players, later Funkadelic] – Including Three Full Albums "When We Do" and "Freeze" (both 1975) and "Suzie Super Groupie" (1976) Plus Seven Bonus Tracks (May 2017 UK Ace Records/Westbound 2CD Anthology of Remasters) - A Review by Mark Barry...

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"...Musical Son... "

Genius Musician, Arranger and all-round Funkmeister Walter "Junie" Morrison is looking rather pleased with himself on the outtake photo that adorns this fabulous 2CD set from England's Ace Records (and why wouldn't he be - pawed by an icon like that!). 

Model Pat Evans is captured in all her beguiling bald sexiness by Joel Brodsky - the photographer who brought us so many of those memorable Ohio Players saucy LP covers – albums Junie wrote tunes for and was instrumental in the origins of. His other period claim to fame is of course the future Funkadelic P-Funk sound – Junie having co-written the anthem "One Nation Under A Groove" with George Clinton and Garry Shider – a US R&B No. 1 in October 1978 for Clinton's Funkadelic.

Pat Evans had featured on the Ohio Players "Pain" LP cover (February 1972) and the not-so-subtly titled "Ecstasy" LP from September 1973 - two hugely popular albums Junie had been instrumental in (Morrison was gone from their orbit by 1974's "Skin Tight"). So come his debut Solo album "When We Do" (recorded in 1973 and 1974 but not released until mid 1975) - hardly surprising then that Pat returns to give our hero some more temperature-rising cover-art strokes. And that's where this rarities haul comes stomping-in. There's a lot of Granny in her Funky Rolls Royce to groove through, so let's have at the details...

UK released 26 May 2017 - "The Complete Westbound Recordings 1973-1976" by JUNIE on Ace Records/Westbound CDSEW2 157 (Barcode 029667083720) features Three Full Albums "When We Do" and "Freeze"  (both 1975) and "Suzie Super Groupie" (1976) Plus Seven Bonus Tracks Remastered onto 2CDs as follows:

CD1 (72:37 minutes):

1. Junie [Side 1]

2. Loving Arms 

3. Johnny Carson Samba 

4. The Place 

5. Anna 

6. Tight Rope [Side 2]

7. You And You 

8. When We Do 

9. Married Him 

10. Walt's Third Trip

Tracks 1 to 10 are his debut album "When We Do" - released June 1975 in the USA on 20th Century Records/Westbound Records W-200 

11. Freeze [Side 1]

12. Cookies Will Get You 

13. Not As Good As You Should 

14. Musical Son 

15. Super J. [Side 2] 

16. World Of Woe 

17. Granny's Funky Rolls Royce 

18. Junie II

Tracks 11 to 18 are his second solo album "Freeze" - released November 1975 in the USA on 20th Century Records/Westbound Records W-214 

CD2 (56:53 minutes):

1. Junie III [Side 1]

2. Suzie Thundertussy 

3. If You Love Him 

4. What Am I Gonna Do

5. Super Groupie

6. Surrender 

7. Suzie 

8. Stone Face Joe 

9. Spirit 

Tracks 1 to 9 are his third studio album "Suzie Super Groupie" - released October 1976 in the USA on 20th Century Records/Westbound Records W228. 

BONUS TRACKS:

10. Junie's Ultimate Departure (first appeared as a Previously Unreleased track on the April 1994 UK CD compilation "The Westbound Years" (by Junie) on Ace Records/Westbound CDSEWD 64 (Barcode 029667376426)

11. Walt's Second Trip 

12. Tightrope (Single Mix)

Tracks 12 and 11 (note sequence) are the A&B-sides of his first US solo 45 released December 1973 on Eastbound E 619 - both tracks are on the debut LP "When We Do" in different forms with "Tightrope" credited on the album as "Tight Rope"

13. Loving Arms (Mono Single Mix) - July 1975 US 45 A-side for Westbound WT-5007 

14. If You Love Him (Single Edit) - 1976 US 45 A-side for Westbound WT-5027

15. Super "J". (Single Edit)

16. Granny's Funky Rolls Royce (Mono Single Edit) 

Tracks 16 and 15 (note sequence) are the A&B-sides of an October 1975 US 45 on Westbound WT-5013

The knowledgeable and erudite DEAN RUDLAND heads up the praises in the 20-page booklet – not surprisingly first mentioning Kanye West and Solange Knowles (sister of Beyoncé) – Kanye with his prominent sampling of "Suzie Thundertussy" for his "No More Parties In L.A.” track on the February 2016 album “The Life Of Pablo" - while Solange actually name-checked the great Dayton, Ohio man upfront as "Junie" - a cut on her "A Seat At The Table" album from September 2016. Not before time either. With none of his three albums featured here having troubled the R&B charts in their days of release – Walter Morrison has been an underground name ever since. Nice to know then that Junie got to feel the love of his contemporaries 'before' his tragic passing in January 2017 - only months after Solange's album release. 

The booklet also features photos of the debut’s gatefold artwork, the second and third LPs and their rather plain and boring rear sleeves as well as those promo-only 45s that never seemed to make it to stock copies. Audio is care of Ace’s long-standing Engineer NICK ROBBINS and no stranger to Soul and Funk tapes – this twofer kicks in all the right places. 

Before the delayed debut LP "When We Do" appeared label co-shared by 20th Century and Westbound Records – Westbound tried "Tightrope" b/w the instrumental "Walt's Second Trip" in December 1973 on their imprint label Eastbound but to no joy (very cool to see both mixes in amongst the bonuses - the versions on the album are different). The very Disco-Funk opener "Junie" is predominantly an instrumental workout featuring The Detroit Symphony. Punctuating the trippy voices and space-feel of "Loving Arms" - soon after a wickedly great 'keep me in your arms' groove is set up - come the Horns and Hammond - the Remaster kicking it. At only 2:32 minutes, the Salsa meets Bass meets shaker Drum rhythms of "Johnny Carson Samba" feels like The Crusaders having a cocktail - a fab little piano groove a la Joe Sample. Back to hard-hitting midnight-hour Pump-Funk with "The Place" - his guitar passages going all heavy Isley Brothers while a fantastic combo of Brass and Strings brings up the rhythmic rear. And it's hard to think now in 2021 why something as bum-shakingly fun-key-fun-kay as the title track "When We Do" wasn't a hit - maybe too many instruments cluttering the mix - but surely that Stevie Wonder clavinet backbeat should have garnished better attention. The whole LP is great really and yet period sales never reflected that. 

Album two "Freeze" goes up a notch and is closest to Funkadelic – the opener is a fast-hammering synth workout where voices and instruments are given that fazed-feel. "Cookies Will Get You" continues in a hard-hitting Brothers Johnson vein – thumping rhythm section, voices, piano and a huge Remaster that threatens to do damage. You touch the height is what you do, Junie claims in "Not As Good As You Should" – another rapid Funk workout that feels like Part 3 on a Side 1 suite. The LP comes close to a voicebox hit with the wild synth playing of "Granny's Funky Rolls Royce" – a ferocious piece of keyboard Funk that has Granny giving it some old mama ad libs (I hear you baby) – and I can so hear why Funkadelic and Parliament aficionados dig the LP so much (despite that poor no-sales artwork). 

Highlights on album three "Suzie Super Groupie" feature the very Todd Rundgren soundscapes of the opener "Junie III" and of course that 'chance to be a star' "Suzie Thundertussy" chorus and backbeat. Junie needs the tenderness so desperately in "Surrender" where the clavinet and general rhythms feel so the "Contusion" instrumental on Stevie Wonder's 1976 double magnum opus "Songs In The Key Of Life". James Brown Funk fans will also dig the near five and half minutes of "Super Groupie" - a get on up moment on Side 2.

 

For sure the whole in-yer-face blasting-no-let-up Funkadelic Funk (truth be told) is an acquired taste and it's easy to see why Earth, Wind & Fire through to The Brothers Johnson and The Ohio Players were so commercially successful – they mixed in elements of P-Funk but just not so hard-hitting all the time. But that won't stop "The Complete Westbound Recordings 1973-76" by JUNIE from being a bit special to aficionados of P-Funk. 

A humdinger of a release and surely (yet again) one of the myriad reasons why Ace Records of the UK are the bizz-schnizz when it comes to Soul and Funk reissues. Musical man remembered well, and with real affection...

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* Best Independent Reissue Labels highlighted...

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Having worked for RECKLESS RECORDS in London for over 20 years as one of their principal Vinyl and CD buyers (one of the best secondhand record shops in the West End) and having over 4180 posts (CDs, DVDs, BLU RAYs) - as you can imagine I come across a huge number of reissues - some far more worthy than others. 

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Enjoy the reads – Mark Barry (2023) 

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* Formats included - CD, SACD [Super Audio CD], HDCD [High Density Compatible Digital], Japan SHM-CD and Japan Platinum SHM-CD  [Super High Materials]

* Major Label Box Set Retrospectives from – EMI, Sony/Legacy, Universal and WEA

* Best Independent Reissue Labels highlighted...

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* Technical data from the discs themselves (total playing times and more)

* Release Date, Catalogue No and Barcode to locate the correct issue

* Track lists and Details on Bonus material (if any)

* Vinyl Discographies referencing CD Box sets (track numbers to sequence singles and albums from the discs)

* UK and US catalogue numbers and release dates for original vinyl albums, 7” singles and EPs within each review

* Remaster/Tape Transfer Engineers highlighted

* Packaging descriptions, size of booklets, what’s contained within, who wrote the liner notes, repro artwork explained

* Reference to the Audio Quality of the CD - analysis of songs

* Guest Musicians highlighted – Cover Versions noted

* Find Artists and Guest Musicians (who played on what)

* Find Original Album Producers and Engineers

* Find your favourite Remaster Engineers and Authors of Liner Notes

SIXTIES and SEVENTIES RECORD LABELS covered by the book include:

ABC, ABC/Dunhill, A&M, Apple, Ardent, Asylum, Atlantic/Atco, Bearsville, Blue Horizon, Brain, Capitol, Capricorn, CBS, Charisma, Chrysalis, Columbia, Dawn, Decca, Deram (Nova), DJM, Elektra, EMI, Epic, Fantasy, Fly, Fontana, Harvest, Immediate, Island, Liberty, London, Marmalade, MCA, Mercury, MGM, Monument, Mooncrest, Parlophone, Parrot, Polydor, Probe, Purple, Pye International, RAK, Rare Earth, RCA Victor, Reaction, Reprise, Rolling Stones, RSO, Shelter, Smash, Straight, Track, Uni, Vertigo, Verve, Virgin, United Artists and Warner Brothers

Having worked for RECKLESS RECORDS in London for over 20 years as one of their principal Vinyl and CD buyers (one of the best secondhand record shops in the West End) and having over 4180 posts (CDs, DVDs, BLU RAYs) - as you can imagine I come across a huge number of reissues - some far more worthy than others. 

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Enjoy the reads – Mark Barry (2023) 

"CTI Records: The Cool Revolution" by VARIOUS ARTISTS – featuring 1970 to 1976 Album Tracks by Stanley Turrentine, Hubert Laws, Ron Carter, Chet Baker, Freddie Hubbard, George Benson, Esther Phillips, Joe Farrell, Deodato, Johnny Hammond, Airto, Milton Jackson, Bob James, Astrid Gilberto, Randy Weston, Gerry Mulligan and more (May 2015 UK and EUROPE Sony Music/Masterworks Jazz 4CD 39-Track Hardback Digibook of Remasters) - A Review by Mark Barry...

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"...We Got A Good Thing Going... "

Just the right side of Jazz Funk and Jazz Fusion for yours truly - Creed Taylor indeed knew how to capture cool. 

Much to discuss – so let's get to the painted faces, red and blue clay landscapes and those beautifully enigmatic glossy LP sleeves and CTI label bags... 

UK and EUROPE released May 2015 - "CTI Records: The Cool Revolution" by VARIOUS ARTISTS on Sony Music/Masterworks Jazz 88875079812 (Barcode 888750798121) is a 4CD 39-Track Hardback Digibook Set of Remasters covering 1970 to 1976. Part of CTI Records 40th Anniversary Celebrations; each CD is title-themed and plays out as follows:

CD1 "Straight Up" (75:38 minutes):

1. Sugar - STANLEY TURRENTINE (10:04 minutes) from the January 1971 US LP "Sugar" on CTI Records CTI 6005

2. Moment's Notice - HUBERT LAWS (6:56 minutes, John Coltrane cover) - from the May 1974 US LP "In The Beginning" on CTI Records CTX 3+3

3. So What - RON CARTER (11:17 minutes, Miles Davis cover) - from the February 1975 US LP "Spanish Blue" on CTI Records CTI 6051

4. Autumn Leaves - CHET BAKER (7:05 minutes) - from the February 1975 US LP "She Was Too Good To Me" on CTI Records CTI 6050

5. Speed Ball - STANLEY TURRENTINE (6:35 minutes, Lee Morgan cover) - from the July 1972 US LP "Cherry" on CTI Records CTI 6017

6. The Intrepid Fox - FREDDIE HUBBARD (10:43 minutes) - from the May 1970 US LP "Red Clay" on CTI Records CTI 6001

7. Ifrane - RANDY WESTON (5:12 minutes) - from the June 1972 US LP "Blue Moses" on CTI Records CTI 6016 - not issued on CD in the USA  

8. Free As A Bird - DON SEBESKY featuring FREDDIE HUBBARD and GROVER WASHINGTON, Jr. (8:09 minutes) - from the December 1973 US 2LP-set "Giant Box" on CTI Records CTX 6031/32 

9. So What - GEORGE BENSON (9:05 minutes, Miles Davis cover) - from the May 1973 US LP "Beyond The Blue Horizon" on CTI Records CTI 6009

CD2 "Deep Grooves/Big Hits" (76:53 minutes):

1. Red Clay - FREDDIE HUBBARD (12:09 minutes) - from the May 1970 US LP "Red Clay" on CTI Records CTI 6001

2. It's Too Late - JOHNNY HAMMOND (10:50 minutes, Carole King cover) - from the 1971 US LP "Breakout" on Kudu Records KU 01

3. Home Is Where The Hatred Is - ESTHER PHILLIPS (3:25 minutes, Gil Scott-Heron and Brian Jackson cover) - from the January 1972 US LP "A Whisper To A Scream" on Kudu KU 05

4. We Got A Good Thing Going - HANK CRAWFORD (5:55 minutes, The Corporation cover) - from the January 1973 US LP "We Got A Good Thing Going" on Kudu KU 08

5. White Rabbit - GEORGE BENSON (6:55 minutes, Grace Slick cover, Jefferson Airplane) - from the 1972 US LP "White Rabbit" on CTI Records CTI 6015

6. Fire And Rain - HUBERT LAWS (7:55 minutes, James Taylor cover) - from the 1971 US LP "Afro-Classic" on CTI Records CTI 6006

7. What A Difference A Day Makes - ESTHER PHILLIPS (4:28 minutes, Dinah Washington cover) - from the 1975 US LP "What A Difference A Day Makes" on Kudu KU 23

8. Follow Your Heart - JOE FARRELL (6:50 minutes, John McLaughlin cover) - from the 1970 US LP "Joe Farrell Quartet" on CTI Records CTI 6003  

9.Also Sprach Zarathustra (2001) (8:58 minutes, Strauss cover) - from the 1972 US LP "Prelude" on CTI Records CTI 6021

10. Mister Magic - GROVER WASHINGTON, JR. (9:02 minutes, Ralph McDonald cover) - from the 1975 US LP "Mister Magic" on Kudu KU 20

CD3 "The Brazilian Connection" (70:09 minutes):

1. Stone Flower - ANTONIO CARLOS JOBIM (3:19 minutes) - from the 1970 US LP "Stone Flower" on CTI Records CTI 6002

2. Ponteio - ASTRUD GILBERTO with STANLEY TURRENTINE (3:55 minutes) - from the 1971 US LP "Gilberto With Turrentine" on CTI Records CTI 6008 

3. First Light - FREDDIE HUBBARD (11:05 minutes) - from the 1971 US LP "First Light" on CTI Records CTI 6013

4. Salt Song - STANLEY TURRENTINE (7:14 minutes, Milton Nascimento cover) - from the 1971 US LP "Salt Song" on CTI Records CTI 6010

5. Pensativa - HUBERT LAWS (6:14 minutes, Claire Fischer cover) - from the 1975 US LP "The San Francisco Concert" on CTI Records CTI ZK 40819

6. Tombo In 7/4 - AIRTO (6:21 minutes) - from the 1973 US LP "Fingers" on CTI Records CTI 6028

7. Sunflower - MILT JACKSON (8:50 minutes, Freddie Hubbard) - from the 1973 US LP "Sunflower" on CTI Records CTI 6024

8. Return To Forever - AIRTO (10:13 minutes, Chick Corea cover) - from the 1972 US LP "Free" on CTI Records CTI 6020

9. Wave - PAUL DESMOND (6:21 minutes, Antonio Carlos Jobim cover) - from the 1974 US LP "Pure Desmond" on CTI Records ZK 40806

10. Carly & Carole - DEODATO (3:38 minutes) - from the 1972 US LP "Prelude" on CTI Records CTI 6021 

 

CD4 "Cool And Classic" (78:22 minutes):

1. My Funny Valentine - GERRY MULLIGAN and CHET BAKER (8:38 minutes, Rogers & Hart cover) - from the 1975 US LP "Carnegie Hall Concert Vol.1" on CTI Records CTI 6054

2. All Blues - RON CARTER (9:35 minutes, Miles Davis cover) - from the 1973 US LP "All Blues" on CTI Records CTI 6037 - not released on CD in the USA

3. Song To A Seagull - DON SEBESKY featuring PAUL DESMOND (5:44 minutes, Joni Mitchell cover) - from the 1974 US 2LP-set "Giant Box" on CTI Records CTX 6031

4. Pavane - HUBERT LAWS (7:40 minutes) - from the 1971 US LP "The Rite Of Spring" on CTI Records CTI 6012

5. What'll I Do - CHET BAKER (3:54 minutes) - from the 1975 US LP "She Was Too Good To Me" on CTI Records CTI 6050

6. Westchester Lady - BOB JAMES (7:23 minutes) - from the 1976 US LP "Three" on CTI Records CTI 6063)

7. A Child Is Born - KENNY BURRELL (9:22 minutes, Thad Jones cover) - from the 1971 US LP "God Bless The Child" on CTI Records CTI 6011

8. Take Five - GEORGE BENSON (7:07 minutes, Paul Desmond cover) - from the 1974 US LP "Bad Benson" on CTI Records CTI 6045

9. Concierto De Aranjuez - JIM HALL (19:18 minutes, Joaquin Rodrigo cover) - from the 1975 US LP "Concierto" on CTI Records CTI 6060

Housed in a colourfully put-together Hardback Digibook with Attached 20-Page Booklet inside (two discs clipped into the front and rear covers) – 4CDs and 39-Tracks have been Transferred and Remastered from original tapes at Battery Studios in New York by a team of quality Engineers – MARK WILDER, MARIA TRIANA and DONNA KLOEPFER. The Audio is lovely throughout even when the earlier recordings threaten to whig-out just once-too-soloing-often. What’s new? All of these famous Jazz, Jazz Fusion and Jazz Funk albums have been reissued on CD over the years, but Tracks 7 on CD1 and 2 on CD4 are not issued on CD in the USA before. 

Visually - littering the essay "CTI Records: The Cool Revolution" by DAN OUELLETTE on Pages 3 to 15 and beyond (he is a contributing writer to DownBeat magazine and author of a biography on the double-bass player Ron Carter) are classy black and white promo photos of the staggering array of Jazz talent Creed Taylor recorded. Primarily taped between 1970 and 1975 and issued on CTI Records and its sidekick Kudu – CTI was in fact originally an imprint of Herb Alpert's A&M Records in 1967 - when Taylor finally decided to take the label and its stellar cast/emerging sound to the public in 1970. 

Creed's manta was to make Jazz that was true to its artist's vision while at the same time reach into a curious mainstream too (art and commercialism combined) - and mostly, he ended up doing just that. Rock guys like me who we're loving Prog and the strange Jazz-Rock sounds of say Soft Machine, Mahavishnu Orchestra, Colosseum and even Jeff Beck LPs - were drawn to Jazzers doing say Carole King's gorgeous "It's Too Late" from her magical "Tapestry" album. I bought CTI albums simply because they were on CTI and I knew the quality would be in there - just maybe more accessible than straight-up Blue Note puritanism. The weird thing is that the great white man CREED TAYLOR himself isn't pictured anywhere in the text! 

The songs range from three minutes to nearly twenty with most being elongated Jazz workouts of six to eight minutes. Love that Miles Davis up-date that Ron Carter does to his "So What” (from the classic "A Kind of Blue" album) - Esther Phillips spotting the genius of Gil Scott-Heron and Brian Jackson for "Home Is Where The Hurt Is" and Don Sebesky with Paul Desmond as they rearrange some new girl from Canada who was making waves at the time – Joni Mitchell and her debut album's "Song To A Seagull" (I wonder what she thought of their version?). And on it goes like that, nice surprise after nice surprise.  

When I bought this 4CD Digibook Pack a good few years ago now, it was regularly on offer for under £20. But in January 2021, it has jumped back up to over £70. 

If you can nab one at the right price, "CTI Records: The Cool Revolution" will indeed do what it claims on the tin. As Mrs. Taylor once said, I feel the Creed in me. 

Nice one...

"The Complete Motown Singles Vol. 11B: 1971" by VARIOUS ARTISTS – July to December 1971 featuring these artists in release date order - The Messengers, Jr. Walker & The All Stars, The Originals, David and Jimmy Ruffin, Stoney & Meatloaf, Stevie Wonder, Eddie Kendricks, The Rustix, Diana Ross, Valerie Simpson, Lodi, Four Tops, Popcorn Wylie, My Friends, Chuck Jackson, G.C. Cameron, Sunday Funnies, The Elgins, Marvin Gaye, The Supremes, Martha Reeves & The Vandellas, Jack Hammer, Michael Jackson, Suzee Ikeda, Tom Clay, Smokey Robinson & The Miracles, The Temptations, Tony & Carolyn, Bobby Taylor, Thelma Houston, Rare Earth, Virgil Henry, The Undisputed Truth, Gladys Knight & The Pips, Bobby Darin, Dave Prince and P.J. (January 2010 US Hip-O Select/Motown 5CD 120-Track Hardback Digibook Compilation With Front-Cover Attached 45 Vinyl-Single – A Non-Numbered Limited Edition of 8000 Copies – CD Volumes Nos. 61 to 65 in the Series - Ellen Fitton Remasters) - A Review by Mark Barry...

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"...Got To Be There..."

Issued in February 2009, Volume "11A" in this extraordinary Complete Singles Series featured January to June of 1971 for all of Motown’s US labels. So this "11B" Volume (released January 2010) covers the second half of that pivotal year, July to December 1971 (see Barcodes provided below to locate either volume).

So much to discuss and like its illustrious and beautifully presented predecessor, this is another must-own, must-have 'Got To Be There' package of Seventies Soul, Funk, R&B and Rock-Soul. To the details...

US released January 2010 - "The Complete Motown Singles Vol. 11B: 1971" by VARIOUS ARTISTS on Hip-O Select/Motown B-0012227-02 (Barcode 602517876903) is a 5CD 120-Track Book Set covering July to December 1971. It comes with a Front-Cover Attached Vinyl 45 (a repro of the US single "Got To Be There" by Michael Jackson on Motown M 1191F inset into a die-cut hole so you can see the label) and is a Non-Numbered Limited Edition of 8000 Copies (CDs are Volumes 61 to 65) that plays out as follows:

 

CD1, Disc 61, 78:42 minutes (24 Tracks)

CD2, Disc 62, 73:16 minutes (24 Tracks)

CD3, Disc 63, 77:07 minutes (24 Tracks)

CD4, Disc 64, 76:51 minutes (24 Tracks)

CD5, Disc 65, 78:06 minutes (24 Tracks)

The thing about a set like this is how it allows you to go deeper - acts like Lodi, The Rustix, Popcorn Wylie, My Friends, G.C. Cameron, Sunday Funnies, Jack Hammer, Suzee Ikeda, Tom Clay, Tony & Carolyn (Rinaldi), Bobby Taylor, Virgil Henry, Dave Prince and the anonymous P.J. are not exactly household names that trip of your average Soul fan's tongue.  Marvin Lee Aday and Cheryl "Shaun" Murphy are the real names of Meatloaf and Stoney, while P.J. is the life loving and damn sexy Patti Jerome – wife of Harry Balk – a musical power couple who went back to the end of the 50ts and beginning of the 60ts. 

And while crossover Rock-Soul-Funk crews like The Undisputed Truth and Rare Earth will up any compilation with class and swivel-hips - how cool is it to see great Soul Vocalist names like Chuck Jackson, Thelma Houston and Valerie Simpson alongside the cabaret-strut of Bobby Darin – all aided by the huge hits from The Temptations, The Supremes and the emerging boy-wonder Michael Jackson (full colour plate on Page 122). There are an awful lot more Stereo Promo Versions too – one for almost all of the singles on CD65 for instance. 

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 124 pages of text inside the hardback book are large – allowing full-page colour plates that are genuinely some of the most beautifully rendered photos of Soul Artists that I’ve ever seen (I have never ever thought Diana Ross sexy, but check out the luminous Afro-haircut colour photo of her on Page 66 – wow). There are lesser-seen picture sleeves for The Messengers, Jack Hammer and Sunday Funnies, trade adverts for Valerie Simpson and her "Exposed" debut album, another for The Temptations grinning at the supposedly high advance orders for their "Superstar... " 45 and a period/with-it photo of white-boy Folkie Dave Prince giving it some Gordon Lightfoot as he tells of Jesus Christ in his humble song offering "The Greatest Man Who Ever Lived" (doesn't he mean Berry Gordy).

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 120 tracks by The Messengers, Jr. Walker & The All Stars, The Originals, David and Jimmy Ruffin, Stoney & Meatloaf, Stevie Wonder, Eddie Kendricks, The Rustix, Diana Ross, Valerie Simpson, Lodi, Four Tops, Popcorn Wylie, My Friends, Chuck Jackson, G.C. Cameron, Sunday Funnies, The Elgins, Marvin Gaye, The Supremes, Martha Reeves & The Vandellas, Jack Hammer, Michael Jackson, Suzee Ikeda, Tom Clay, Smokey Robinson & The Miracles, The Temptations, Tony & Carolyn, Bobby Taylor, Thelma Houston, Rare Earth, Virgil Henry, The Undisputed Truth, Gladys Knight & The Pips, Bobby Darin, Dave Prince and P.J. - you can also feel the winds of change creeping in as soppy Saturday night girly themes get supplemented with the 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. A fantastic snapshot of an amazing year...

 

£95 to over £120 for half a year is a lot I know (and some of it is rightfully forgotten), but 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 January 2021)

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

"The Complete Motown Singles Vol. 11A: 1971" (January to June) by VARIOUS ARTISTS – featuring The Jackson 5, Joe Hinton, Brass Monkey, Chuck Jackson, R. Dean Taylor, Marvin Gaye, The Undisputed Truth, Ken Christie And The Sunday People, David Ruffin, Kiki Dee, Stevie Wonder, Smokey Robinson & The Miracles, Eddie Kendricks, Sammy Davis Jr., Gordon Staples & The Motown Strings, Edwin Starr, David & Jimmy Ruffin, Letta, Diana Ross, P.J. (Patti Jerome), Stoney & Meatloaf, The Supremes, Bobby Darin, The Impact Of Brass, King Floyd, Bill Cosby, Gladys Knight & The Pips, The Four Tops, Ivy Jo, The Crusaders, Hugh Masekela & The Union Of South Africa, Arthur Adams, The Stylists, Hearts Of Stone, Rare Earth and Tom Clay (February 2009 US Hip-O Select/Motown 5CD 119-Track Compilation – Hardback DigiBook Set With Front-Cover Attached 45 Vinyl Single – A Non-Numbered Limited Edition of 8000 Copies – CD Volumes Nos. 56 to 60 in the Series - Ellen Fitton Remasters) - A Review by Mark Barry...

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"...What's Going On..."

Thankfully, as I perused the Soul Section of Oxford Street’s HMV Megastore in early 2009, I saw the Marvin Gaye US 45 for "What's Going On" attached to the front cover of this thing-of-beauty and was a goner. Had to have it. I had diligently collected all of these now-legendary Hip-O Select American-issued Hardback DigiBook Volumes except of course (like a pillock) the elusive and expensive Vol. 6 covering 1966 (a very stupid oversight that will now set you back about £300 or more). I was not about to make that 'I'll pick it up later' mistake yet again. 

Volume 11A featured all 45-singles issued January to June 1971, whilst 11B did July to December 1971. You get the Tamla, Motown, Rare Earth, V.I.P., Soul, Ecology, MoWest and Chisa labels all featured and even unreleased alternate mixes and rare promo-only versions. So much to discuss, so let's hear those 'spend it on the have-nots' lyrics one more time, but with proper praise...

US released February 2009 - "The Complete Motown Singles Vol. 11A: 1971" by VARIOUS ARTISTS on Hip-O Select/Motown B-0011579-02 (Barcode 602517776555) is a 5CD 119-Track Book Set covering January to June 1971. It comes with a Front-Cover Attached Vinyl 45 (a repro of the US single "What's Going On" by Marvin Gaye on Tamla T 54201 inset into a die-cut hole so you can see the label) and is a Non-Numbered Limited Edition of 8000 Copies (CDs are Volumes 56 to 60) that plays out as follows:
 
CD1, Disc 56, 73:38 minutes (23 Tracks)
The A&B-sides of 11 US singles by The Jackson 5, Joe Hinton, Brass Monkey, Chuck Jackson, The Temptations, R. Dean Taylor, Marvin Gaye, The Undisputed Truth, Ken Christie And The Sunday People, David Ruffin and Kiki Dee (extra track is an Alternate Mix of the Kiki Dee A-side "Love Makes The World Go 'Round")

CD2, Disc 57, 77:50 minutes (25 Tracks)
The A&B-sides of 10 singles by Stevie Wonder, Smokey Robinson & The Miracles, Eddie Kendricks (extra track is a Long Promo Version of the A-side "This Used To Be The Home Of Johnnie Mae" on Tamla T 54203), Sammy Davis Jr. (extra track is a Stereo Promo Version of the A-side "In My Own Lifetime" on Ecology E 10000), The Jackson 5, R. Dean Taylor, Gordon Staples & The Motown Strings (two extra tracks are a Long Promo Version and Stereo Promo Version of the A-side "Strung Out" on Motown M 1180), Edwin Starr, David & Jimmy Ruffin, Letta and Stevie Wonder (extra track is the Stereo Promo Version of "Never Dreamed You'd Leave In Summer", originally the B-side of "We Can Work It Out" on Tamla T 54202 in March 1971, reissued as a double-sided promo-only 45 to promote the "Where I'm Coming From" LP)
 
CD3, Disc 58, 75:24 minutes (24 Tracks)
The A&B-sides of 9 singles by Diana Ross (two extra tracks are a Long Stereo Promo Version and Short Stereo Promo Version of the A-side "Reach Out I'll Be There" on Motown M 1184), P.J. (Patti Jerome), Stoney and Meatloaf (extra track is a Stereo Promo Version of the A-side "What You See Is What You Get" on Rare Earth 5027), The Supremes (extra track is a Stereo Promo Version of the A-side "Nathan Jones" on Motown M 1182), Bobby Darin, The Impact Of Brass (extra track is a Stereo Promo Version of the A-side "Never Can Say Goodbye" on Rare Earth 5028), King Floyd, Diana Ross with The Jackson Five (B-side is Diana Ross & Bill Cosby) and Gladys Knight & The Pips (extra track is a Stereo Promo Version of the A-side "I Don't Want To Do Wrong" on Soul S 35083), 

CD4, Disc 59, 75:22 minutes (24 Tracks)
The A&B-sides of 9 singles by The Supremes & The Four Tops (extra track is a Stereo Promo Version of the A-side "You Gotta Have Love In Your Heart" on Motown M 1181), The Undisputed Truth, Ivy Jo (extra track is a Stereo Promo Version of the A-side "I'd Still Love You" on V.I.P. 25063), The Four Tops, Diana Ross (extra track is a Mono Promo Version of "Reach Out I'll Be There" on Motown M 1184 issued May 1971 – see Disc 58 for original), The Crusaders (extra track is a Stereo Promo Version of the A-side "Pass The Plate" on Chisa C 8013), Hugh Masekela & The Union Of South Africa (extra track is a Stereo Promo Version of the A-side "Dyambo (De-Yambo) Weary Day Is Over" on Chisa C 8014, Arthur Adams, The Stylists and Smokey Robinson & The Miracles (extra track is Stereo Promo Version of the A-side "Crazy About The La La La" on Tamla T 54206F), 

CD5, Disc 60, 78:49 minutes (23 Tracks)
The A&B-sides of 8 singles by Marvin Gaye (extra track is a Stereo Promo Version of the A-side "Mercy Mercy (The Ecology)" on Tamla T 54207F), Hearts Of Stone (extra track is a Stereo Promo Version of the A-side "If I Could Give You The World" on V.I.P. 25064), Ken Christie & The Sunday People (extra track is a Stereo Promo Version of the A-side "The Reverend John B. Daniels" on Rare Earth 5029F), R. Dean Taylor (extra track is a Stereo Promo Version of the A-side "Candy Apple Red" on Rare Earth 5030F), Rare Earth (extra track is a Stereo Promo Version of the A-side "I Just Want To Celebrate" on Rare Earth R 5031F), The Jackson 5 (extra track is a Stereo Promo Version of the A-side "Maybe Tomorrow" on Motown M 1186F), Tom Clay (extra track is a Short Promo Version of the A-side "What The World Needs Now/Abraham, Martin and John" on MoWest 5002F) and The Temptations

The thing about a set like this is how it allows you to go deeper - acts like Ken Christie And The Sunday People, Gordon Staples & The Motown Strings, Letta, The Stylists, The Impact Of Brass, Brass Monkey, Tom Clay, P.J. or even Ivo Jo (who turns out to be Ivory Joe Hunter of Atlantic Records fame) are not exactly household names that trip of your average Soul fan's tongue.  Marvin Lee Aday and Cheryl "Shaun" Murphy are the real names of Meatloaf and Stoney, while P.J. is the life loving and damn sexy Patti Jerome – wife of Harry Balk – a musical power couple who went back to the end of the 50ts and beginning of the 60ts. And while Groove-Ambassador for his troubled country Hugh Masekela and crossover Rock-Soul-Funk crews like The Undisputed Truth and Rare Earth will up any compilation with class and swivel-hips - how cool is it to see great names like Guitarist Arthur Adams, male and female Soulful vocalists from different sides of the pond in the shape of Sammy Davis Jr. and Kiki Dee – all sided by the best Jazz-Funk band on the planet - The Crusaders. There are an awful lot more Stereo Promo Versions too – one for almost all of the singles on CD60. 

But first - 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 (even Sammy Davis Jr. looks hip with his head band). The five 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 119 tracks, you get 47 singles and there are just so many great discoveries in here – the beautifully soulful Joe Hinton urging us to "Let's All Save The Children" – a one-off single that was also featured on one of the rarest Motown LPs ever issued called "Souvenir" – an album handed out to attendees only at a Benefit gig in April 1971 in Detroit, the wall of male-singer class that was Chuck Jackson on his "Is There Anything Love Can't Do" and the lovely voice of Letta Mbulu from Soweto. 

And of course you get to return to absolute Mono classics as you would have heard them on the radio of the day – the film-staple "Reach Out I'll Be There" by Diana Ross, the flange-tastic "Nathan Jones" by The Supremes and Stevie Wonder doing the Fabs with his excellent cut of "We Can Work It Out". Then there are probably three of my all time rave-faves in the Soul World - "Smiling Faces Sometimes" by The Undisputed, "Just My Imagination (Running Away With Me)" by The Temptations and the sublime heaven that is "What's Going On" by Marvin Gaye ("Mercy Mercy Me (Ecology Song)" is probably up there too). And so much more...
 
The physical product in 2021 ranges from £80 to over £125 - with the MP3 download version somewhere about £75 (individual tracks are usually 99p). But it's the real deal that you need. 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 Hardback Digibook Releases as of January 2021)

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