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  • Audio CD (1 Dec 2008)
  • Number of Discs: 3
  • Format: Box set
  • Label: UMTV
  • ASIN: B001HK8ZWM
  • Other Editions: MP3 Download
  • Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (37 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,034 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
    #4 in  Music > R&B & Soul > Motown
    #77 in  Music > Box Set
    #39 in  Music > Pop > Pop R&B

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Listen  1. I Heard It Through The GrapevineMarvin Gaye 3:17£0.89
Listen  2. Dancing In The StreetMartha Reeves And The Vandellas 2:36£0.59
Listen  3. Baby LoveThe Supremes 2:36£0.89
Listen  4. I Can't Help Myself (Sugar Pie, Honey Bunch)Four Tops 2:46£0.89
Listen  5. Needle In A HaystackThe Velvelettes 2:31£0.69
Listen  6. Get ReadyTemptations 2:33£0.89
Listen  7. You Can't Hurry LoveThe Supremes 2:46£0.89
Listen  8. Heaven Must Have Sent YouThe Elgins 2:32£0.69
Listen  9. Nowhere To RunMartha Reeves And The Vandellas 2:57£0.69
Listen10. Jimmy MackMartha & The Vandellas 2:53£0.69
Listen11. This Old Heart Of Mine (Is Weak For You)The Isley Brothers 2:47£0.69
Listen12. The Tears Of A ClownSmokey Robinson 3:05£0.89
Listen13. ABCJackson 5 3:00£0.59
Listen14. It Takes TwoMarvin Gaye 2:56£0.89
Listen15. My GuyMary Wells 2:49£0.59
Listen16. Do You Love MeThe Contours 2:53£0.69
Listen17. Do I Love You (Indeed I Do)Frank Wilson 2:22£0.69
Listen18. There's A Ghost In My HouseR. Dean Taylor 2:15£0.69
Listen19. Stop! In The Name Of LoveThe Supremes 2:52£0.89
Listen20. ShotgunJr. Walker & The All Stars 3:00£0.69
Listen21. Signed, Sealed, Delivered (I'm Yours)Stevie Wonder 2:40£0.89
Listen22. I Want You BackJackson 5 2:58£0.89
Listen23. You Are EverythingMarvin Gaye 2:54£0.89
Listen24. Ain't No Mountain High EnoughDiana Ross 3:37£0.89


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Listen  1. SuperstitionStevie Wonder 4:01£0.89
Listen  2. Papa Was A Rollin' StoneTemptations 6:52£0.89
Listen  3. What's Going OnMarvin Gaye 3:54£0.89
Listen  4. Brick HouseCommodores 3:35£0.89
Listen  5. WarEdwin Starr 3:22£0.89
Listen  6. My GirlTemptations 2:57£0.89
Listen  7. The Tracks Of My TearsSmokey Robinson 2:52£0.89
Listen  8. Endless LoveDiana Ross 4:27£0.89
Listen  9. EasyCommodores 4:18£0.69
Listen10. ReflectionsDiana Ross & The Supremes 2:50£0.89
Listen11. Reach Out, I'll Be ThereFour Tops 2:56£0.89
Listen12. Let's Get It OnMarvin Gaye 4:53£0.69
Listen13. What Becomes Of The Broken HeartedJimmy Ruffin 2:55£0.89
Listen14. Got To Be ThereMichael Jackson 3:20£0.89
Listen15. Being With YouSmokey Robinson 3:56£0.89
Listen16. I'm Still WaitingDiana Ross 3:46£0.89
Listen17. Sir DukeStevie Wonder 3:53£0.89
Listen18. Love MachineThe Miracles 2:54£0.69
Listen19. All Night Long (All Night)Lionel Richie 4:13£0.89
Listen20. Love HangoverDiana Ross 3:48£0.89


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Listen  1. Master Blaster (Jammin')Stevie Wonder 4:51£0.89
Listen  2. NightshiftCommodores 4:58£0.89
Listen  3. Upside DownDiana Ross 4:03£0.89
Listen  4. Super FreakRick James 3:18£0.89
Listen  5. Treat Her Like A LadyTemptations 4:12£0.89
Listen  6. My DestinyLionel Richie 3:41£0.89
Listen  7. Light My FireStevie Wonder 3:40£0.89
Listen  8. Everybody's TalkingFour Tops 2:53£0.69
Listen  9. Get ReadyRare Earth 2:45£0.69
Listen10. Let's Do It (Let's Fall In Love)Kim Weston 2:22£0.89
Listen11. I Say A Little PrayerMartha Reeves And The Vandellas 3:03£0.69
Listen12. Wichita LinemanSmokey Robinson 2:53£0.69
Listen13. Jumpin' Jack FlashThelma Houston 3:23£0.69
Listen14. The First Time Ever I Saw Your FaceTemptations 4:08£0.69
Listen15. Come TogetherThe Supremes 4:08£0.89
Listen16. Put A Little Love In Your HeartDavid Ruffin 2:43£0.69
Listen17. You've Got A FriendMichael Jackson 4:55£0.89


Product Description

BBC Review

The music of Motown means a hell of a lot to a hell of a lot of people. So how do you compile a definitive best of for the label's 50th anniversary without leaving swathes of the listening public in the cold?

Well Universal Music - of whom Motown is now a subsidiary - think they have the answer. Instead of drafting in the experts with their own agendas and subjective opinions or using potentially flawed statistics like record sales or critical acclaim, they set up a four week online poll to choose the top 50 Motown songs of all time and let the people do the talking.

A big part of the fun of this concept is finding out how your predictions of the most popular tracks compare to those of the voters. The top three - I Heard It Through The Grape Vine, Dancing In The Street and Baby Love - yield no major surprises. But The Velvettes' Needle In A Haystack, The Temptations' Get Ready, and The Elgins' Heaven Must Have Sent You are refreshingly high (at 5,6 and 8 respectively) and the funky side of the label (in the form of Stevie Wonder's Superstition and Rick James' Super Freak) is well represented. All this gives the project a distinctive flavour far removed from the humdrum Marvin-Smokey-and-Diana-heavy, weepy bargain bin comps of the past.

The only problem with such a democratic approach is the sequencing of the tracks. Tuning into to a listener's poll on the radio keeps the excitement building because it runs in reverse order. Motown 50 starts at number one, counting up the chart, so the Cd may feel a little front loaded and the music doesn't always flow in the way a chronologically or aesthetically selected collection would. Then again, this is Motown we're talking about so there isn't much of what you could call filler and once you tire of the ranking you can always hit shuffle instead. Furthermore, the final disc includes a series of unlikely (and occasionally brilliant) cover versions should you wish to take the road less travelled for a while.

Cd compiling for the American Idol generation? Perhaps. In the end this compilation is what it is - a diverting concept and crowd-pleasing party album in one. --Angus Taylor

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37 of 38 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars Going for Gold, but not quite reaching it., 24 Dec 2008
By Guitar Heroine "Music maestro" (Somewhere In England.) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Motown 50 (Audio CD)
If you want a Motown collection, the white covered album, Motown Gold, which has been out for a few years now, is much better.

This being the 50th anniversary of Motown, I had high hopes for this album being a success. Well, it is a success in terms of sales; I see it's charting pretty highly.

But it's not as definitive or varied as it could be, and although yes, it includes all the classics, it's nothing new or different. I think a wider variety of artists could have been used, and/or different tracks from the ones being featured, as this label already has many of the tracks from this record on the "original" white covered album.
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73 of 77 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars Such a disappointment from Motown, 2 Dec 2008
By Mr. Simon Bell (London U.K.) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Motown 50 (Audio CD)
I'm appalled by thias as a Motown purist. I don't know why they spent all that time having us vote for tracks when they've wasted almost a whole disc on cover versions - something Motown did very badly as a rule. I also hate the inclusion of most things after 1970. It's just not Classic Motown. Thelma's "Jumping Jack Flash" wasn't ever recorded at Motown, it's from her ABC album Sunshower. Quite the most disappointing release ever, when it should have been a treasure.
Seek out another compilation, this is not the celebration of Motown that it should have been.
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71 of 75 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars THIS IS NOT THE CELEBRATION IT SHOULD OF BEEN, 6 Dec 2008
By V. Thomas "Victor Dunoon Community Radio" (Argyll Scotland) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Motown 50 (Audio CD)
As stated in a previous review this is not the Celebration of Motown 50
I was expecting to hear.
If this is what the voters thought was the best of Motown from the past 50 years, as a Motown fan, I am appalled!
I cannot believe that Motown fans would vote to listen to an artist sing a cover version of "pop" song when that artist has been credited to have recorded classic original Motown songs of thier own.
Thank goodness there are quite a few CDs available that do represent the true Motown sound of the last 5o years, several of which are available here on Amazon.
Something has gone terribly wrong in putting this Album together!
I was so looking forward to writing a review of this CD on the new Dunoon Community Radio Web Music Review page as an insight into what Motown has contributed to music over the last 50 years-Not with this CD I am sad to say.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Fun fun fun
Imagine all the tunes you've bopped to over the years - and here a lot of them are, all in one collection. Put on the record and it just makes you smile....and dance !
Published 2 months ago by J. A. Hawkshaw

4.0 out of 5 stars Good, if you like soul.
Has many songs that are popular and well known. It also features lots of less well heard of covers of songs that actually sounds really nice. Recommen it for pretty much everyone.
Published 4 months ago by T. Stansfield

5.0 out of 5 stars Brilliant - All the hits & more
I only bought it because I heard one song from the album & I wanted it!
The best thing is all the hits & music that you know all in one place & at the price, wonderful... Read more
Published 5 months ago by R. Cox

2.0 out of 5 stars Motown 50
I purchaced this motown 50 and received a very quick delivery but on checking the con tent the info on the tracks displayed on PC were not the same as on cd or sleeve. Read more
Published 10 months ago by Mr. F. M. Edmunds

5.0 out of 5 stars Best Motown Collection Available
I bought this for the long car journey while travelling on holiday, its perfect and a great selection of songs to sing to. Read more
Published 13 months ago by Emma

3.0 out of 5 stars Motown 50 (by various artistes)
Slightly disappointed in this. 3 discs. First one great - new most of the tracks. Second one not too good and the third disc a little better. OK for playing in the car.
Published 16 months ago by Mrs. P. M. Fuller

5.0 out of 5 stars Amazon to the rescue
After a "No Show" from Music Bargain it was refreshing to receive the CD from Amazon direct within days of placing the order. I wish I'd taken this route in the first place. Read more
Published 16 months ago by John Jones

5.0 out of 5 stars Motown 50
The CD purchase was very simple and easy, the payment was quick and it came withinn 3 working days in a very good condition.
Published 16 months ago by Liane Wragg

5.0 out of 5 stars Amazing the amount of tunes you can recognise
I read throgh the song list and recognised a few good tunes and so bought the album. When I played it I was amazed at how many other tunes I recognised (and Liked). Read more
Published 16 months ago by Derek

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent
This was bought as a present for my mother whom absolutely loves it!!Contains loads of very well know songs. Read more
Published 16 months ago by Helen

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