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23 of 23 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
This CD should suit the real Motown fans and Northern Soul fans alike.
This is well researched and as some tracks on it that have been heard from time to time on the Soul scene and others that are completely fresh to our ears.
All the tracks are rare and unreleased , why it's hard to fathom perhaps to much competition at the recording studios and a hard quality control.
Forty years on and we reminded how excellent the early Motown sound was.
This is Must buy for every fan , Thanks to Paul Nixon and the Universal Team.
I cannot wait for Volume Four to come out, there are still more tracks to be found.
Mick Payne Northern Soul DJ
This is well researched and as some tracks on it that have been heard from time to time on the Soul scene and others that are completely fresh to our ears.
All the tracks are rare and unreleased , why it's hard to fathom perhaps to much competition at the recording studios and a hard quality control.
Forty years on and we reminded how excellent the early Motown sound was.
This is Must buy for every fan , Thanks to Paul Nixon and the Universal Team.
I cannot wait for Volume Four to come out, there are still more tracks to be found.
Mick Payne Northern Soul DJ
18 of 18 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
I recently heard Mark Lamarr (on his mind-blowing Alternative Sixties show) play four tracks in a row from this newest edition of A Cellarful Of Motown! and then comment that he thought there had been a massive drop in quality since the first two volumes. Just in case the compiler Paul Nixon was listening and felt disheartened enough to want to throw in the towel on the fourth volume he was preparing, I must hasten to disagree.
When A Cellarful Of Motown! first appeared in 2002 the general consensus was that it was astonishing that so many tracks of such amazing quality could have remained in the vaults for so many years. In the intervening years a great deal of archive Motown material has been unearthed and released for the first time, and the huge scale of what gems still await to be discovered has become apparent. Therefore, having raised the bar with the newly rescued releases so far, there is now a higher expectation that each fresh discovery will be of unsurpassable genius.
Amazingly, quite a few get fairly close to that. I spent another couple of hours replaying the set today, afraid that I had been listening through rose-tinted headphones, and only found I enjoyed all the tracks more than before, as they became more familiar.
A real effort has been made to cater for all kinds of Motown fans, be it particular producers and writers, Northern Soul, re-interpretations of Motown standards or girl group sounds, and although a preference for the period 1965-1966 is conceded, there are recordings from as early 1963 and as late as 1970, plus a one-off from 1984, the latter being a return to the label by the Four Tops, enjoying a pastiche of their sixties style as recreated by Deke Richards. The earliest track is by Marvin Gaye, recorded shortly before he cracked the charts with Pride And Joy and clear evidence of his vocal dexterity. Other big names get a look-in (The Temptations, The Miracles, Stevie Wonder), but it is those who were on lower rungs of the ladder and didn't get the promotional push that are most celebrated here: the fabulous Marvelettes (three wonderful tracks), Brenda Holloway, the Contours, Gladys Knight and the Pips, the Spinners, Chris Clark, Carolyn Crawford, Shorty Long and many others. How frustrating it must have been to have put their all into a performance on a song they believed in, only to have the results stashed away unheard on a tape shelf.
I should mention the very helpful booklet annotations which give all available details about recording dates and assignments to other artists of the same song or band track as well as personal comments from the compiler.
Everyone will find their own personal favourites on here. For Mark Lamarr it was the Contours, the Originals, Dennis Edwards and Yvonne Fair. For me it is Brenda Holloway, Junior Walker, Stevie Wonder and the Marvelettes. At least it is today; but next time I play the set, qualities hidden deep in the grooves of perhaps the Carolyn Crawford or Ivy Jo Hunter tunes may hold sway. They are all new to my ears, and that is their joy. More power to Cellarfuls of Motown!
When A Cellarful Of Motown! first appeared in 2002 the general consensus was that it was astonishing that so many tracks of such amazing quality could have remained in the vaults for so many years. In the intervening years a great deal of archive Motown material has been unearthed and released for the first time, and the huge scale of what gems still await to be discovered has become apparent. Therefore, having raised the bar with the newly rescued releases so far, there is now a higher expectation that each fresh discovery will be of unsurpassable genius.
Amazingly, quite a few get fairly close to that. I spent another couple of hours replaying the set today, afraid that I had been listening through rose-tinted headphones, and only found I enjoyed all the tracks more than before, as they became more familiar.
A real effort has been made to cater for all kinds of Motown fans, be it particular producers and writers, Northern Soul, re-interpretations of Motown standards or girl group sounds, and although a preference for the period 1965-1966 is conceded, there are recordings from as early 1963 and as late as 1970, plus a one-off from 1984, the latter being a return to the label by the Four Tops, enjoying a pastiche of their sixties style as recreated by Deke Richards. The earliest track is by Marvin Gaye, recorded shortly before he cracked the charts with Pride And Joy and clear evidence of his vocal dexterity. Other big names get a look-in (The Temptations, The Miracles, Stevie Wonder), but it is those who were on lower rungs of the ladder and didn't get the promotional push that are most celebrated here: the fabulous Marvelettes (three wonderful tracks), Brenda Holloway, the Contours, Gladys Knight and the Pips, the Spinners, Chris Clark, Carolyn Crawford, Shorty Long and many others. How frustrating it must have been to have put their all into a performance on a song they believed in, only to have the results stashed away unheard on a tape shelf.
I should mention the very helpful booklet annotations which give all available details about recording dates and assignments to other artists of the same song or band track as well as personal comments from the compiler.
Everyone will find their own personal favourites on here. For Mark Lamarr it was the Contours, the Originals, Dennis Edwards and Yvonne Fair. For me it is Brenda Holloway, Junior Walker, Stevie Wonder and the Marvelettes. At least it is today; but next time I play the set, qualities hidden deep in the grooves of perhaps the Carolyn Crawford or Ivy Jo Hunter tunes may hold sway. They are all new to my ears, and that is their joy. More power to Cellarfuls of Motown!
16 of 16 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
To have a third double-CD set, at a bargain price, of some great previously unreleased Motown tracks, is something all Motown fans will celebrate. As before, the focus is on the sixties uptempo recordings (although there is a very late 4 Tops track which will knock your socks off). As an introduction to Motown's less famous artists, you could do no better than invest in this sensational set. A vast range of Motown talent is here, from blue-eyed soul gems, to stomping strings-led instrumentals. Why some of the singers never became household names is a matter for debate, but on the evidence of tracks by the Contours, the pre-Philly Spinners, Shorty Long and the unbeatable Yvonne Fair, EVERYONE at Motown was a star performer. Grab one now!
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cellarful of motown
being a massive fan of tamla motown since i can remember to actually manage to buy such a great cd . it contains loads of old classics and i would reccommend owning a copy
Published 11 days ago by motown man
Another amazing CD
This CD has some amazing tracks on it, and to think they have never been officially released. All the tracks are better than the vast majority of the rubbish being put out as... Read more
Published 4 months ago by Chicago
cellarful of motown vol 3
The third instalment of gems from the vaults of motown, just goes to show the talent of the artists at hitsville back in the day. Read more
Published 7 months ago by dj casey
Motown at it's best
This CD is wonderful , if you have got as far as even looking at it you are probably hooked on this sound anyway,all these tracks that have lain in a vault for years, how many more... Read more
Published on 5 Aug 2008 by P. Ridley-thomas
Wasted
As the 60s moved on and TM moved to the West Coast and began issuing some total crap starting with the Jackson 5 and ending with the overblown and grossly overrated Diana Ross and... Read more
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