The Complete Motown Singles, Vol. 7: 1967

The Complete Motown Singles, Vol. 7: 1967

The Complete Motown Singles, Vol. 7: 1967
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Edition: Music CD
Format: Box set, Limited Edition
CD Release Date: 2007-07-31
Music Label: Hip-O Select
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
  1. Love's Gone Bad - The Underdogs
  2. Mojo Hannah - The Underdogs
  3. Love Is Here and Now You're Gone - The Supremes
  4. There's No Stopping Us Now - The Supremes
  5. Pucker Up Buttercup - Junior Walker & the All-Stars, Junior Walker & the All-Stars
  6. Anyway You Wannta - Junior Walker & the All-Stars, Junior Walker & the All-Stars
  7. Chantilly Lace - Shorty Long
  8. Your Love Is Amazing - Shorty Long
  9. Till Johnny Comes - Brenda Holloway
  10. Love I Saw in You Was Just a Mirage - Smokey Robinson & the Miracles
  11. Come Spy with Me - Smokey Robinson & the Miracles
  12. Jimmy Mack - Martha & the Vandellas
  13. Third Finger, Left Hand - Martha & the Vandellas
  14. Travlin' Man - Stevie Wonder
  15. Hey Love - Stevie Wonder
  16. Bernadette [Promo Version] - The Four Tops
  17. I Got a Feeling - The Four Tops
  18. Bernadette [Commercial Version] - The Four Tops
  19. Gonna Give Her All the Love I've Got - Jimmy Ruffin
  20. World So Wide, Nowhere to Hide (From Your Heart) - Jimmy Ruffin
  21. I Want to Go Back There Again - Chris Clark
  22. I Love You - Chris Clark
  23. It's So Hard Being a Loser - The Contours
  24. Your Love Grows More Precious Every Day - The Contours
Music CD 2
  1. Just Look What You've Done - Brenda Holloway
  2. Starting the Hurt All Over Again - Brenda Holloway
  3. Here I Am Baby - Barbara McNair
  4. My World Is Empty Without You - Barbara McNair
  5. Take Me in Your Arms and Love Me - Gladys Knight & the Pips
  6. Do You Love Me Just a Little, Honey - Gladys Knight & the Pips
  7. Happening - The Supremes
  8. All I Know About You - The Supremes
  9. Got to Have You Back - The Isley Brothers
  10. Just Ain't Enough Love - The Isley Brothers
  11. There's a Ghost in My House - R. Dean Taylor
  12. Don't Fool Around - R. Dean Taylor
  13. Festival Time - The San Remo Golden Strings
  14. Joy Road - The San Remo Golden Strings
  15. I Wonder Why (Nobody Loves Me) - Billy Eckstine
  16. I've Been Blessed - Billy Eckstine
  17. When You're Young and in Love - The Marvelettes
  18. Day You Take One (You Have to Take the Other) - The Marvelettes
  19. All I Need - The Temptations
  20. Sorry Is a Sorry Word - The Temptations
  21. Ain't No Mountain High Enough - Marvin Gaye, Tammi Terrell
  22. Give a Little Love - Marvin Gaye, Tammi Terrell
  23. 7-Rooms of Gloom - The Four Tops
  24. I'll Turn to Stone - The Four Tops
Music CD 3
  1. Chained [Promo Version] - Paul Petersen
  2. Don't Let It Happen to Us - Paul Petersen
  3. Chained [Alternate Mix][Version] - Paul Petersen
  4. For All We Know - The Spinners
  5. I Cross My Heart - The Spinners
  6. I Was Made to Love Her - Stevie Wonder
  7. Hold Me - Stevie Wonder
  8. More Love - Smokey Robinson & the Miracles
  9. Swept for You Baby - Smokey Robinson & the Miracles
  10. It's Been a Long Long Time (A Long Time) - The Elgins
  11. I Understand My Man - The Elgins
  12. Everybody Needs Love - Gladys Knight & the Pips
  13. Your Unchanging Love - Marvin Gaye
  14. I'll Take Care of You - Marvin Gaye
  15. You're My Everything - The Temptations
  16. I've Been Good to You - The Temptations
  17. Ain't That the Truth - Junior Walker & the All-Stars, Junior Walker & the All-Stars
  18. Don't You Miss Me a Little Bit Baby - Jimmy Ruffin
  19. That's the Way Love Is - The Isley Brothers
  20. One Too Many Heartaches - The Isley Brothers
Music CD 4
  1. Reflections - Diana Ross & the Supremes
  2. Going Down for the Third Time - Diana Ross & the Supremes
  3. Love Bug Leave My Heart Alone - Martha & the Vandellas
  4. One Way Out - Martha & the Vandellas
  5. Steal Away Tonight - Barbara McNair
  6. For Once in My Life - Barbara McNair
  7. You're Made Me So Very Happy [Promo Version] - Brenda Holloway
  8. I've Got to Find It - Brenda Holloway
  9. You're Made Me So Very Happy [Commercial Version] - Brenda Holloway
  10. Your Precious Love - Marvin Gaye, Tammi Terrell
  11. Hold Me Oh My Darling - Marvin Gaye, Tammi Terrell
  12. You Keep Running Away - The Four Tops
  13. If You Don't Want My Love - The Four Tops
  14. From Head to Toe - Chris Clark
  15. Beginning of the End - Chris Clark
  16. Window Shopping - Messengers
  17. California Soul - Messengers
  18. I Got a Feeling - Barbara Randolph
  19. You Got Me Hurtin' All Over - Barbara Randolph
  20. I'm Wondering - Stevie Wonder
  21. Every Time I See You I Go Wild - Stevie Wonder
  22. I'm Wondering [Alternate Mix] - Stevie Wonder
  23. (Loneliness Made Me Realize) It's You That I Need - The Temptations
  24. Don't Send Me Away - The Temptations
Music CD 5
  1. I Heard It Through the Grapevine - Gladys Knight & the Pips
  2. It's Time to Go Now - Gladys Knight & the Pips
  3. I Heard It Through the Grapevine [Alternate Mix] - Gladys Knight & the Pips
  4. I Want My Baby Back - Edwin Starr
  5. Gonna Keep on Tryin' Till I Win Your Love - Edwin Starr
  6. What a Good Man He Is - Tammi Terrell
  7. There Are Things - Tammi Terrell
  8. I Second That Emotion - Smokey Robinson & the Miracles
  9. You Must Be Love - Smokey Robinson & the Miracles
  10. In and out of Love - Diana Ross & the Supremes
  11. I Guess I'll Always Love You - Diana Ross & the Supremes
  12. Honey Chile - Martha Reeves, Martha Reeves
  13. Show Me the Way - Martha Reeves, Martha Reeves
  14. Come See About Me - Junior Walker & the All-Stars, Junior Walker & the All-Stars
  15. Sweet Soul - Junior Walker & the All-Stars, Junior Walker & the All-Stars
  16. You Haven't Seen My Love - Ones
  17. Happy Day - Ones
  18. Two Can Have a Party - Marvin Gaye, Tammi Terrell
  19. If I Could Build My Whole World Around You - Marvin Gaye, Tammi Terrell
  20. If This World Were Mine - Marvin Gaye, Tammi Terrell
  21. My Baby Must Be a Magician - The Marvelettes
  22. I Need Someone - The Marvelettes
  23. I Wish It Would Rain - The Temptations
  24. I Truly, Truly Believe [Alternate Mix] - The Temptations
  25. I Truly, Truly Believe - The Temptations
  26. You - Marvin Gaye
  27. At Last (I Found a Love) - Marvin Gaye
  28. Change What You Can - Marvin Gaye

Free Music Notes for The Complete Motown Singles, Vol. 7: 1967

Free Music Review: Box of Wonders
Hit: 5 Stars

Of this unique, amazingly ambitious multi-volume set, this is the third volume I've purchased, following Volume 2 (covering the 1962 singles) and Volume 4 (covering 1964). In 1962, Motown was The Little Independent Label That Could, trying to build upon its handful of big hits from the previous three years. In 1964, everything finally came together for the company and the "Motown Sound" came to maturity. By 1967, the feisty little label had become a commercial powerhouse, as the hit factory churned out one smash after another.

Except to a die-hard Motown fan, I would hesitate to recommend the 1962 or 1964 volumes, because both include lots of big misses among the gems. But I can unequivocally recommend the 1967 volume to anybody who cares about Motown, or `Sixties music in general. The hits speak for themselves: "Love Is Here and Now You're Gone," "Jimmy Mack," "Bernadette," "All I Need" "Ain't No Mountain High Enough," "7 Rooms of Gloom," "I Was Made to Love Her," "More Love," "You're My Everything," "Reflections" "Your Precious Love," "(Loneliness Made Me Realize) It's You That I Need," "I Second That Emotion," "Honey Chile," "If I Could Build My Whole World Around You" and the Gladys Knight and the Pips version of "I Heard It Through the Grapevine."

But those 1967 B-sides: wow! The past master of the B-side, Smokey Robinson, created a couple of memorable ones for The Miracles that year: the subdued "Swept for You Baby" and the lush "You Must Be Love." But he also created the kitschy-but-clever "Come Spy With Me," evoking for me a cultural moment when cinematic spies (both serious and campy) were all the rage. There's also Gladys Knight and the Pip's gentle and touching "It's Time to Go Now"; Gaye's splendid composition "If This World Were Mine"; Edwin Starr's version of Norman Whitfield's "Gonna Keep On Tryin' Till I Win Your Love"; Junior Walker's "Sweet Soul" (in which the sax master hits some impressive high notes); and The Temptation's gorgeous doo-wop tribute, the Robinson-penned "Don't Send Me Away" (with, for once, Otis Williams on lead). The best B-side of all, perhaps, is Martha Reeves & the Vandellas' "Show Me the Way" (flip side to "Honey Chile"), which is very nearly as good as her earlier hard-driving hits. (Martha's Sixties work, as opposed to the dated-sounding Supremes, seems to get better and better with age.)

This box is just full of goodies: the big, beautiful and very blonde Chris Clark ("Head to Toe"), Jimmy Ruffin ("Gonna Give Her All the Love I've Got"), the lovely Brenda Holloway (her original version of "You've Made Me So Very Happy"), the Isley Brothers (an uptempo version of "That's the Way Love Is"), The Spinners ("For All We Know" -- not The Carpenters' tune), The Contours (the memorably titled "It's So Hard Being a Loser"), The Marvelettes ("My Baby Must Be a Magician"), and on and on. Even the label's MOR artists, distinctly out of place among the soul performers, do very well: the songs by veteran Billy Eckstine and supper-club singer Barbara McNair are never less than pleasant, and one recording -- McNair's haunting take on The Supremes' "My World Is Empty Without You" -- is much more than that.

The artist who dominates this volume, however, is Marvin Gaye. In the previous year, he had sung at the Copacabana nightclub in New York for a live album the company chose not to release. The experience seemed to liberate him, however, for both as a duet partner (with the wonderful Tammi Terrell) and as a solo singer, he was terrific in 1967. The final disc ends with a triple triumph for Gaye: the minor hit "You," inaugurating his "tortured lover" phase; the exuberant gospel number "At Last (I Found a Love)" and (later replacing it as the B-side) the jazzy "Change What You Can," which seems to have been inspired by the words of St. Francis.

Finally, the liner notes by Bill Dahl and Keith Hughes -- despite the occasional bewildering inaccuracy -- are tremendously informative and offer some real surprises. For example, we discover that "Jimmy Mack" was actually a tribute, by Lamont Dozier, to the writer of the classic "He's So Fine," Ronnie Mack, who died young. We learn, to our astonishment, that Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell were not in the studio together when they recorded their first hit, "Ain't No Mountain High Enough" (Gaye dubbed his part over Tammi's solo performance). But it didn't matter because, according to Johnny Bristol, one of the song's producers, "Marvin could feel Tammi." And there's the occasional amusing anecdote: the songwriters Brian and Eddie Holland and Lamont Dozier all had friends named Bernadette, each of whom thought The Four Tops' classic was written about her.

It should be noted that there is nothing in this box even remotely resembling the revolutionary 1967 work of Jimi Hendrix (Are You Experienced), Pink Floyd (The Piper at the Gates of Dawn), The Velvet Underground (The Velvet Underground and Nico) or The Beatles (Sgt. Pepper). No surprise there: Motown always owed as much to the traditions of Broadway, Tin Pan Alley and The Brill Building as to those of contemporary rock and R&B. For example, at least ninety-five percent of the songs in Volume 7 are about romantic love, when most rock artists were moving on to other themes. But Motown's songwriting and producing craftsmanship -- and musicianship -- remain peerless after all these years.

I can't imagine anyone of any age possessing the slightest feeling for soul music who would listen to these five disks with anything less than awe at the depth and range of talent on display. The music of this era never ceases to astound.
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It's the newest installment in the critically acclaimed, continuing series of every Motown single of the Detroit era. With 120 Tracks on five compact disks, this box set chronicles a pivotal year for "The Sound Of Young America." The story of Motown in 1967 is all here, over five disks. Included are rare cuts, promo only singles, and several surprising alternative mixes, from Stevie Wonder's "Im wondering" to the temptations' B-side, "I Truly, Truly believe," with a forgotten alternative lead vocal.

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