Motown Singles, Vol. 2
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Edition: Music CDFormat: Box set, Original recording remastered
Published: 2005
CD Release Date: 2006-09-26
Music Label: Hip-O Select
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The first installment was 6 discs , 155 songs , 6 hours , 53 minutes , 10 seconds of the start of Motown. We are now at the second installment with an additional 112 songs on 4 discs , 4 hours , 54 minutes , 36 seconds. Volume 2 is the first to feature one specific year-1962 , as the remaining 10 volumes are slated to do. Well , what about the MUSIC? It is MOTOWN , for crying out loud! Motown starting to truly hit it's stride. The quality of performance throughout is amazing. If it was a Motown single in '62, it is in this box. Hear some again , hear some for the first time. See you at Volume 3 !
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By 1962, Motown wasnt yet the hit factory it would later become, but they had regular chart success, and were reaching across the ocean to influence the emerging British Invasion. Both Smokey Robinsons Youve Really Got A Hold On Me (later covered by The Beatles) and The Contours Berry Gordy-penned smash Do You Love Me (covered by The Dave Clark 5) make their debut on this set. The year marked the debut of four new imprints in the Motown empire: Divinity, Workshop, Mel-o-dy, and Gordy. It also saw You Beat Me To The Punch top the R&B charts, as well as cracking the Top 10 on the pop side. This four-CD set offers a miraculous peek behind the curtains of what was rapidly becoming The Sound Of Young America. It features the A-side and B-side of every single released by Motown and its subsidiaries during the labels fourth year of existence. Each track builds ever closer to reaching Gordys goal of growing his music empire into an entertainment juggernaut. Over the course of the sets 112 tracks, you can hear The Temptations masquerading as The Pirates, the vocal version of the Theme From Exodus, and the phone number that was on the lips of America: Beechwood 4-5789, courtesy of the Marvelettes. The opulent packaging includes 88 pages of rare photos, detailed annotations liner notes. It also features a reproduction 45-rpm single from its era; in this case, its Mary Wells You Beat Me To The Punch b/w Old Love (Lets Try It Again). Claudette Robinson, a member of The Miracles and Smokeys ex-wife, contributed a personal essay to the set detailing the artists-eye-view of life in the labels early years. Also included is an historical overview by author and scholar Gerald Early of Washington University in St. Louis, and track-by-track annotations, with not just song credits but stories behind each song, by noted authors and discographers Bill Dahl and Keith Hughes.Pop Music CDs
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