Mable John - Complete Collection
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Artist: Mable JohnEdition: Music CD
Format: Import
CD Release Date: 2004-03-22
Music Label: Universal UK
Soundtracks:
- Who Wouldn't Love a Man Like That - Mable John, Gordy, Berry
- You Made a Fool Out of Me - Mable John, Gordy, Berry
- No Love - Mable John, Gordy, Berry
- Looking for a Man - Mable John, Gordy, Berry
- No Love - Mable John, Gordy, Berry
- Actions Speak Louder Than Words - Mable John, Gordy, Berry
- Take Me - Mable John, Williams, Andre
- I'm Yours, You're Mine - Mable John, Gaye, Anna Gordy
- I'm Finally Through With You - Mable John, Fowler, George
- Look at Me - Mable John, Williams, Andre
- More Lovin' - Mable John, Williams, Andre
- My Name Is Mable (A.K.A. Able Mable) - Mable John, John, Mable
- My Thanks - Mable John, John, Mertis Jr.
- True Love Can Be Found - Mable John, Williams, Andre
- We Belong Together - Mable John, John, Mertis Jr.
- You Never Miss a Good Thing - Mable John, Gordy, Berry
- Who Wouldn't Love a Man Like That - Mable John, Gordy, Berry
- Say You'll Never Let Me Go - Mable John, Paul, Clarence
- Meet Me Half Way - Mable John, Holland, Brian
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Free Music Review: Motown years in full
Hit: 4 Stars
Mable John's recording career began at Motown. But although she was there for six years, when she moved to Stax in 1966, the label with which she is most associated, she had released only four singles on Tamla. Three of these were released before 1962 and the most recent in 1963, itself a remake of her first single, Who Wouldn't Love A Man Like That. When she left she had been silent to the record-buying public for three years, while cash registers were ringing with the record sales of Mary Wells and the Miracles, Marvin and Martha.
Behind the scenes, though, from the start, she had been busily recording with her mentor Berry Gordy, Andre Williams, Mickey Stevenson, Holland and Dozier, Clarence Paul and even a teenage Stevie Wonder, and as well as Berry Gordy's piano playing augmenting the Funk Brothers, she had the Supremes or the Temptations helping out on backing vocals for some tracks.
This album is subtitled 'The Complete Collection' and rounds up all released and unreleased completed masters to so far show up in the vaults (with Motown you never know what may be uncovered), 19 tracks in all including both variants of the single No Love.
Of the unreleased tracks only a couple are dated, and these are from late 1962. However in the booklet notes, Mable John says, "Most of the material was recorded at United Sound. When we moved to the now-famous house at 2648 West Grand Boulevard, a few songs were cut there." As we can deduce that five of the tracks must have been made at the Hitsville Studios, in the basement at 2648, it seems likely that many of the others date from 1960-1961, rather than the dry period of no releases after 1963, and represent another casualty of Motown's embarrassment of riches.
Of most interest of these are an upbeat duet with Singin' Sammy Ward; the first version of Able Mable, an autobiographical song written by Mable and her mother Lillie, which was later to be a single on Stax; her version of You Never Miss A Good Thing, a Smokey/Berry song that Eugene Remus had out in 1960 and that became a Miracles B-side in 1962; and an unreleased early Dozier-Holland song, Meet Me Half Way, which had also been recorded in 1962 by Kim Weston. This closes the album and an important chapter in her career, now finally available for our evaluation.
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Subtitled - The Complete Collection - 19 Hi-Fidelity Soul Classics. The first ever complete collection from the first female solo artist ever to sing a note for the Motown label. A goldmine of an album, this unique collection boasts no fewer than ten previously unreleased tracks, 'I'm Yours, You're Mine', 'I'm Finally Through With You', 'Look At Me', 'More Lovin'', 'My Name Is Mable', 'My Thanks', 'True Love (Can Be Found)', 'We Belong Together', 'You Never Miss A Good Thing', & 'Meet Me Half Way'. Spectrum. 2004.Christian & Gospel Music CDs
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