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Disc 1:
  Song Title Artist Time Price    
Play   1. Ask The Lonely The Four Tops 2:58 £0.89
Play   2. Where Did You Go The Four Tops 2:24 £0.69
Play   3. Do You Know What I'm Talkin' About The Downbeats 3:00 £0.69
Play   4. You Say You Love Me The Downbeats 2:27 £0.69
Play   5. Conscience I'm Guilty Hattie Littles 3:03 £0.69
Play   6. You Got Me Worried Hattie Littles 2:56 £0.69
Play   7. Shotgun Jr. Walker And The All Stars 2:57 £0.89
Play   8. Hot Cha Jr. Walker And The All Stars 3:02 £0.69
Play   9. All For You Earl Van Dyke & The Soul Brothers 2:56 £0.69
Play 10. Too Many Fish In The Sea Earl Van Dyke & The Soul Brothers 2:18 £0.69
Play 11. Love Makes The World Go `Round, But Money Greases The Wheel Dee Mullins 2:08 £0.69
Play 12. Come On Back (And Be My Love Again) Dee Mullins 2:21 £0.69
Play 13. I'm Still Loving You Kim Weston 2:48 £0.89
Play 14. Go Ahead And Laugh Kim Weston 2:55 £0.69
Play 15. Nowhere To Run Martha & The Vandellas 2:50 £0.69
Play 16. Motoring Martha Reeves & The Vandellas 2:45 £0.69
Play 17. Stop! In The Name Of Love (Promo version) The Supremes 2:53 £0.89
Play 18. I'm In Love Again Diana Ross & The Supremes 2:19 £0.89
Play 19. Stop! In The Name Of Love (Single Version (Mono)) The Supremes 2:52 £0.89
Play 20. When I'm Gone (Single Version) Brenda Holloway 2:07 £0.69
Play 21. I've Been Good To You Brenda Holloway 3:05 £0.69
Play 22. When I'm Gone (Second Version) Brenda Holloway 2:10 £0.69
Play 23. I'll Be Doggone (Single Version (Mono)) Marvin Gaye 2:51 £0.69
Play 24. You've Been A Long Time Coming Marvin Gaye 2:13 £0.69
Play 25. I'll Be Doggone (Second version) Marvin Gaye 2:50 £0.69
Play 26. Ooo Baby Baby Smokey Robinson 2:42 £0.89
Play 27. All That's Good Smokey Robinson 2:53 £0.69
Play 28. It's Growing The Temptations 2:57 £0.89
Play 29. What Love Has Joined Together The Temptations 2:54 £0.69
Disc 2:
  Song Title Artist Time Price    
Play   1. Never Say No To Your Baby The Hit Pack 2:30 £0.69
Play   2. Let's Dance The Hit Pack 2:06 £0.69
Play   3. Kiss Me Baby Stevie Wonder 2:12 £0.89
Play   4. You Only Pass This Way One Time The Hillsiders 2:04 £0.69
Play   5. Rain Is A Lonesome Thing The Hillsiders 2:35 £0.69
Play   6. My Baby The Freeman Brothers 2:32 £0.69
Play   7. Beautiful Brown Eyes The Freeman Brothers 2:29 £0.69
Play   8. Back In My Arms Again (Promo version) The Supremes 2:54 £0.89
Play   9. Whisper You Love Me Boy Diana Ross & The Supremes 2:39 £0.89
Play 10. Back In My Arms Again (Single Version (Stereo)) The Supremes 2:56 £0.89
Play 11. A Thrill A Moment Kim Weston 3:00 £0.69
Play 12. I'll Never See My Love Again Kim Weston 2:53 £0.69
Play 13. I Can't Help Myself (Sugar Pie, Honey Bunch) (Single Version (Mono)) The Four Tops 2:43 £0.89
Play 14. Sad Souvenirs The Four Tops 2:39 £0.89
Play 15. I Can't Help Myself The Four Tops 2:44 £0.69
Play 16. All The Good Times Are Gone Howard Crockett 2:59 £0.69
Play 17. The Great Titanic Howard Crockett 2:42 £0.69
Play 18. Lonely, Lonely Girl Am I The Velvelettes 2:10 £0.69
Play 19. I'm The Exception To The Rule The Velvelettes 2:19 £0.69
Play 20. I'll Keep Holding On The Marvelettes 2:25 £0.89
Play 21. No Time For Tears The Marvelettes 2:35 £0.69
Play 22. Do The Boomerang Jr. Walker And The All Stars 2:20 £0.69
Play 23. Tune Up Jr. Walker And The All Stars 3:03 £0.69
Play 24. Operator Brenda Holloway 3:08 £0.69
Play 25. I'll Be Available Brenda Holloway 2:37 £0.69
Play 26. Down To Earth Billy Eckstine 3:02 £0.69
Play 27. Had You Been Around Billy Eckstine 2:45 £0.69
Disc 3:
  Song Title Artist Time Price    
Play   1. Buttered Popcorn The Vows 2:44 £0.69
Play   2. Tell Me The Vows 2:37 £0.69
Play   3. He's An Oddball The Lewis Sisters 2:50 £0.69
Play   4. By Some Chance The Lewis Sisters 2:58 £0.69
Play   5. Why Do You Want To Let Me Go Marv Johnson 3:03 £0.69
Play   6. I'm Not A Plaything Marv Johnson 2:07 £0.69
Play   7. The Only Time I'm Happy The Supremes 2:28 £0.89
Play   8. Supremes Interview The Supremes 5:41 £0.89
Play   9. Since I Lost My Baby The Temptations 2:51 £0.89
Play 10. You've Got To Earn It The Temptations 2:37 £0.89
Play 11. I'll Always Love You Spinners 2:45 £0.69
Play 12. Tomorrow May Never Come Spinners 2:28 £0.69
Play 13. This Time Last Summer Danny Day 3:07 £0.69
Play 14. Please Don't Turn The Lights Out Danny Day 2:55 £0.69
Play 15. Why Break My Heart (Just To Run Around) Dorsey Burnette 2:45 £0.69
Play 16. They're Only Words Dorsey Burnette 2:33 £0.69
Play 17. Pretty Little Baby Marvin Gaye 2:35 £0.69
Play 18. Now That You've Won Me Marvin Gaye 2:31 £0.69
Play 19. First I Look At The Purse The Contours 3:02 £0.69
Play 20. Searching For A Girl The Contours 2:48 £0.69
Play 21. The Tracks Of My Tears The Miracles 3:00 £0.69
Play 22. A Fork In The Road Smokey Robinson 3:18 £0.69
Play 23. Shake And Fingerpop Jr. Walker And The All Stars 2:42 £0.69
Play 24. Cleo's Back Jr. Walker And The All Stars 2:29 £0.69
Play 25. It's The Same Old Song (Single Version (Mono)) The Four Tops 2:46 £0.89
Play 26. Your Love Is Amazing The Four Tops 2:21 £0.69
Play 27. It's The Same Old Song (Second Version) The Four Tops 2:43 £0.89
Disc 4:
  Song Title Artist Time Price    
Play   1. Mother Dear Diana Ross & The Supremes 2:39 £0.89
Play   2. Nothing But Heartaches (Single Version (Mono)) The Supremes 2:42 £0.89
Play   3. He Holds His Own The Supremes 2:29 £0.69
Play   4. Nothing But Heartaches (Second Version) The Supremes 2:42 £0.89
Play   5. Danger Heartbreak Dead Ahead The Marvelettes 2:22 £0.69
Play   6. Your Cheating Ways (Single Version) The Marvelettes 2:56 £0.69
Play   7. Your Cheating Ways (Second Version) The Marvelettes 2:52 £0.69
Play   8. You've Changed Me Brenda Holloway 3:03 £0.69
Play   9. Who's Lovin' You Brenda Holloway 2:42 £0.69
Play 10. You've Been In Love Too Long Martha Reeves & The Vandellas 2:59 £0.69
Play 11. Love (Makes Me Do Foolish Things) Martha & The Vandellas 2:54 £0.69
Play 12. High Heel Sneakers Stevie Wonder 3:04 £0.89
Play 13. Funny How Time Slips Away Stevie Wonder 3:48 £0.89
Play 14. Music Talk Stevie Wonder 2:56 £0.89
Play 15. The Bigger Your Heart Is (The Harder You'll Fall) Tony Martin 2:38 £0.69
Play 16. The Two Of Us Tony Martin 2:29 £0.69
Play 17. I Don't Know What To Do Richard Anthony 1:58 £0.69
Play 18. What Now My Love Richard Anthony 2:35 £0.69
Play 19. Hang On Bill Little Lisa 2:50 £0.69
Play 20. Puppet On A String Little Lisa 2:03 £0.69
Play 21. You Can Cry On My Shoulder (Single Version) Brenda Holloway 2:49 £0.69
Play 22. How Many Times Did You Mean It Brenda Holloway 2:59 £0.69
Play 23. You Can Cry On My Shoulder (Second Version) Brenda Holloway 2:53 £0.69
Play 24. You Need Me The Lewis Sisters 2:48 £0.69
Play 25. Moonlight On The Beach The Lewis Sisters 2:48 £0.69
Play 26. Take Me In Your Arms (Rock Me A Little While) Kim Weston 2:55 £0.69
Play 27. Don't Compare Me With Her Kim Weston 2:37 £0.69
Play 28. Things Are Changing Diana Ross & The Supremes 2:56 £0.89
Disc 5:
  Song Title Artist Time Price    
Play   1. Ain't That Peculiar (Single Version (Mono)) Marvin Gaye 2:49 £0.59
Play   2. She's Got To Be Real Marvin Gaye 2:51 £0.69
Play   3. Ain't That Peculiar (Second Version) Marvin Gaye 2:58 £0.69
Play   4. My Girl Has Gone (Single Version (Mono)) Smokey Robinson 2:52 £0.89
Play   5. Since You Won My Heart Smokey Robinson 2:13 £0.89
Play   6. My Girl Has Gone (Second Version) Smokey Robinson 2:50 £0.89
Play   7. My Baby (Single Version (Mono)) The Temptations 2:59 £0.89
Play   8. Don't Look Back (Album Version (Stereo)) The Temptations 2:50 £0.89
Play   9. My Baby (Second Version) The Temptations 2:56 £0.69
Play 10. Don't Look Back (Second Version) The Temptations 2:52 £0.89
Play 11. I Can't Help Myself (Sugar Pie, Honey Bunch) (Single Version) Earl Van Dyke & The Soul Brothers 2:43 £0.69
Play 12. How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved By You) Earl Van Dyke & The Soul Brothers 2:49 £0.69
Play 13. I Hear A Symphony The Supremes 2:41 £0.89
Play 14. Who Could Ever Doubt My Love Diana Ross & The Supremes 2:35 £0.69
Play 15. As Long As There Is L-O-V-E, Love Jimmy Ruffin 2:50 £0.69
Play 16. How Can I Say I'm Sorry Jimmy Ruffin 2:31 £0.89
Play 17. We Call It Fun The Headliners 2:13 £0.69
Play 18. Voodoo Plan The Headliners 2:25 £0.69
Play 19. Something About You The Four Tops 2:48 £0.89
Play 20. Darling, I Hum Our Song The Four Tops 2:22 £0.69
Play 21. I've Been Cheated Dalton Boys 2:34 £0.69
Play 22. Take My Hand Dalton Boys 2:46 £0.69
Play 23. Something's Bothering You Dalton Boys 2:58 £0.69
Play 24. Let's Go Somewhere R. Dean Taylor 2:51 £0.69
Play 25. Say You The Monitors 2:32 £0.69
Play 26. All For Someone The Monitors 2:17 £0.69
Play 27. I Can't Believe You Love Me Tammi Terrell 2:35 £0.89
Play 28. Hold Me Oh My Darling Tammi Terrell 2:36 £0.89
Disc 6:
  Song Title Artist Time Price    
Play   1. You're Gonna Love My Baby Barbara McNair 2:56 £0.69
Play   2. The Touch Of Time Barbara McNair 3:01 £0.69
Play   3. Children's Christmas Song The Supremes 2:45 £0.89
Play   4. Twinkle Twinkle Little Me The Supremes 3:02 £0.89
Play   5. Uptight (Everything's Alright) Stevie Wonder 2:52 £0.69
Play   6. Purple Rain Drops Stevie Wonder 3:07 £0.89
Play   7. A Bird In The Hand (Is Worth Two In The Bush) The Velvelettes 2:51 £0.69
Play   8. Since You've Been Loving Me The Velvelettes 2:13 £0.69
Play   9. Don't Mess With Bill The Marvelettes 2:48 £0.69
Play 10. Anything You Wanna Do The Marvelettes 2:22 £0.69
Play 11. The Flick (Part 2) Earl Van Dyke & The Soul Brothers 2:52 £0.69
Play 12. The Flick (Part 1) Earl Van Dyke & The Soul Brothers 2:50 £0.69
Play 13. Do Right Baby Do Right (Single Version) Chris Clark 2:56 £0.69
Play 14. Don't Be Too Long Chris Clark 2:34 £0.69
Play 15. Do Right Baby Do Right (Second Version) Chris Clark 2:49 £0.69
Play 16. Going To A Go-Go The Miracles 2:48 £0.89
Play 17. Choosey Beggar Smokey Robinson 2:31 £0.89
Play 18. Ask Any Man Tony Martin 2:38 £0.69
Play 19. Spanish Rose Tony Martin 2:46 £0.69
Play 20. Cleo's Mood Jr. Walker And The All Stars 2:39 £0.69
Play 21. Baby You Know You Ain't Right Jr. Walker And The All Stars 2:31 £0.69
Play 22. My World Is Empty Without You The Supremes 2:34 £0.89
Play 23. Everything Is Good About You The Supremes 3:11 £0.89
Play 24. Do I Love You (Indeed I Do) Frank Wilson 2:32 £0.89
Play 25. Sweeter As The Days Go By Frank Wilson 2:51 £0.69
Play 26. Put Yourself In My Place The Elgins 2:26 £0.69
Play 27. Darling Baby The Elgins 2:35 £0.69
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  • Original Release Date: 28 July 2008
  • Release Date: 28 July 2008
  • Number of Discs: 6
  • Label: UMC (Universal Music Catalogue)
  • Copyright: (C) 2006 Universal Music Enterprises, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
  • Total Length: 7:33:01
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  • ASIN: B003VS1I7W
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful
Unearthly goodness 1 Feb 2010
By Laurence Upton TOP 500 REVIEWER VINE™ VOICE
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The Complete Motown Singles is a highly ambitious series of box sets that aims to archive each and every single released on Berry Gordy's group of labels. From its humble origins in 1959, unlike other label-themed box sets such as the Stax-Volt collection, it does not limit itself to mostly A-sides, but includes all B-sides too. In fact, it goes the extra mile by also including every promo mixes and variant pressing. There are also some singles that didn't get released, and some novelty discs of interviews and so forth. Volume 1 covered the years from 1959 to 1961, but from 1962 through the rest of the sixties each set covers a single year, using varying number of discs that increased as the labels became more prolific.

I could have chosen any of the Volumes for review, but from a British perspective, 1965 is the year to go for because it was when the Tamla Motown label was launched here via EMI. There had been hits the year before for the Supremes, Mary Wells and Martha and the Vandellas, all on the Stateside label, but no context for them beyond the fact that they came from the other side of the Atlantic, no sense that they were connected. Tamla Motown's appearance meant that far more of the American releases got an airing here and for the first time it had its own identity. It was in March 1965 also that the Motown Revue came to England to tour and recorded an hour-long TV special for Ready Steady Go! For many people this was their first exposure to a new phenomenon. 1965 became the year that Motown both entered the mainstream in the US, battling racial barriers along the way, and went global.

In its infancy, Motown had not yet found its hallmark sound and mingling among the earthy R&B it did so well could be found country, jazz, balladeers, novelty pop and all-sorts, now best forgotten. Although by 1965 it had very much found its stride, it is surprising to discover that it was still releasing singles in all these genres and more: folk-rock, rockabilly, British invasion style pop, even a French ballad singer called Richard Anthony, who I remember but had no idea was linked to Motown. These were usually on smaller subsidiary labels, and very much cut into the flow of these CDs, especially since they are, by and large, terrible. I'm glad they are there, they are after all a part of the story, but am thankful for Program Play. Most of the rest, however, is classic Motown in its heyday, with a notable shortage of clunkers.

Motown was an in-house operation, based on the model of Detroit's car industry, with its own artist roster, writers, arrangers, producers and engineers, and with most personnel having more than one role. Smokey Robinson for example was not only Berry Gordy's right hand man, he was also lead singer for the Miracles, songwriter and producer for a number of Motown acts.

Motown also had its own publishing (Jobete), its own studio and, most importantly, its legendary house band. At the time their identities were jealously guarded but we now know that by 1965 their core members included bandleader and keyboard player Earl Van Dyke; guitarists Robert White, Eddie Willis, Joe Messina; Jack Ashford on vibes; the matchless James Jamerson on bass; and powerhouses Benny Benjamin, Pistol Allen or Uriel Jones on drums. In addition were loads of brass players and members of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra. Between them they ran up thousands and thousands of studio hours at the magic snakepit in Hitsville Studio A, creating the phenomenal grooves that splatter this box set with unearthly goodness, and 1965 was a time when it was all working at its best.

The sixties was primarily a singles market, and major artists released far more singles in a year than is now the case. Consequently, if we bunch together all the tracks by, say, the Supremes, who were at their hottest, you get well over an album's worth of songs, and the same is true of the Four Tops, also mainly produced by the Holland-Dozier-Holland team, who were at the top of their game.

There are also numerous classic sides by established names like the Temptations, the Miracles, Marvin Gaye, Martha and the Vandellas, Stevie Wonder and the Contours; and a few equally strong sides from aspiring and upcoming acts such as Junior Walker and the All Stars, Kim Weston, the Marvelettes and the Velvelettes.

Amongst those making their first appearance on the label in 1965 are Barbara McNair, an actress with a slightly jazzier singing style, who became Playboy's first black centre-fold in 1968; and Tammi Terrell, who was destined to shine brightly with Marvin Gaye before coming to a tragically premature end.

Berry Gordy was extending his reach into other parts of the states and developing artists and facilities in Los Angeles, and recording the local talent either in Detroit or at studios in Los Angeles, using the Wrecking Crew (the same team who can be found on Beach Boys records and Phil Spector productions), and so we find Frank Wilson, whose withdrawn single Do I Love You (Yes I Do) became the most sought after and valuable piece of Motown vinyl, the Vows, the Lewis Sisters and the underrated Brenda Holloway, whose singles When I'm Gone, Operator and You Can Cry On My Shoulder, all came out in 1965. She lived there and recorded mostly with Los Angeles based producers Hal Davis and Marc Gordon. The Supremes also added vocals to existing band tracks there while in the area. Jimmy Webb began his association with Motown at this time, submitting his songs to Jobete and having a couple recorded in Los Angeles for a single by Danny Day. California native Chris Clark, a six-foot blue-eyed platinum blonde likened to Dusty Springfield, also sprang up from the city. A few years later, of course, Berry Gordy was to move the whole operation to the city of angels, with mixed results to say the least.

One of the most interesting rarities on the set is the Supremes' track Things Are Changing, originally a promo for the Advertising Council's Public Service Announcement for Equal Employment Opportunities Campaign, promoting racial and ethnic equality in the workplace, and produced by Phil Spector. Motown had aped the Spector sound in the past, but this seems to be the closest involvement with the man himself. Two other versions of the song, one by the Blossoms and one by Jay and the Americans, using the same backing, were also released for the campaign at the same time.

This box set tells a story that "greatest hits" and "best of..." collections simply cannot, and the detailed booklet notes and illustrations amply demonstrate what a mighty phenomenon Motown was around the world at that time.
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