The Motown Story, Vol. 1: The Sixties
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Free Music Notes for The Motown Story, Vol. 1: The Sixties
Free Music Review: Incredible
Hit: 5 Stars
This is an excellent Motown collection.
I'm a little surprised about comments deriding the song introductions. What better way to learn about the artists and the stories behind the songs than to hear the master (Smokey Robinson) introduce them along with comments by the artists themselves? Personally, I have no desire to skip the intros no matter how many times I hear them.
Now, if they'd done the 'cardinal sin of dj's' (talking over the song), that would be another story. However, the songs are restarted and played in their entirety following the introductions.
An excellent collection!
Free Music Review: Motowm Memories
Hit: 5 Stars
Growing up in the Sixties was such a fantastic time. The music scene had exploded and there at the very top was the Tamla Motown sound. The Motown Story is a magical tour through Motowns early beginnings and the Sixties era provided some of the finest songs/sounds produced by the Motown label. To hear the likes of Smokie Robinson,Diana Ross and Stevie Wonder telling us their stories of how some of the greatest hit records of the day came into being is wonderful, it gives us an unusual insight into the "behind the scenes" decisions that produced such an amazing variety of sounds with so many reaching the No 1 spot in the charts. My favourite commentary is from Levi Stubbs of the Four Tops relating his reluctantance to perform the lead vocals on the track "Reach Out I'll Be There" which as he states "turned out to be a monster hit."Free Music Review: I did the original
Hit: 5 Stars
I conducted the interviews for the original Motown Story, which was a 'rockumentary' on the 10th anniversary of the label. It was done as a Top-40 radio special by Drake-Chenault for Motown, and it was released as a Top-40 radio syndication "special" but also as a multi LP version of the radio show.
As a boxed record set back then, I was very proud of it, but honestly listening to the boxed set at home, it clanged on the ear and was very annoying. I knew it at the time, but the KHJ Los Angeles producers (including me: my title in the credits is "researchist") did things in the 'Boss Radio' style, which was designed to hear in your car. Because it was first and foremost a radio show, we adhered rigidly to a format that worked on the radio.
Bill Watson, one of Bill Drake's principal lieutenants, was the producer; Charley Van Dyke was the DJ and he read script ("covered") the musical intro right to the first lyric. That was the radio style of the day, but listening to the records at home the "style" drove people nuts. Thank god somebody came along and fixed it.
What Harry Weinger and Andrew Skurow did with this remake is really brilliant. They used the original interviws, which I conducted and edited, and added some new interview material, and some narrative from Smokey Robinson, and Lionel Ritchie, and Pat St. John. The actual Motown hits are all here, and unmolested interview bites or narration. I thank these guys for cleaning up after me and my producers. It turned out fabulous.
I know these interviews with Jimmy Ruffin, and Marvin Gaye, and Martha Reeves, and Levi Stubbs, Jr almost word for word. It was my job to do the interviews, and to edit the interviews down to the pure gold, the nuggets. Some of the artists are no longer with us, such as Marvin Gaye. These interviews are priceless in that way.
I was always proud of having done the project, and even more so now. I send my kudos to Messers Weinger and Skurow and Robinson for reworking of the material brilliantly. Well done, guys.
This is now a must-have collection for any fan of early Motown.
John Gibson, Fox News 5-19-08
Free Music Review: The worst
Hit: 1 Stars
Oh, the music is great, but what the other reviewers conveniently forgot to mention was that the songs are marred by a narrative introduction that is included on the same track as the song. In other words, you have to listen to the narrative introduction every time you play the song. Who wants that? It would have been great if the intros were on separate tracks but they were too stupid to think of doing the obvious.
Free Music Review: THE MOTOWN STORY is FABULOUS!
Hit: 5 Stars
Unlike any other collection available, The Motown Story Volume 1: The 1960s is a collection of Motown's biggest hits, evenly placed throughout amazing audio interviews by the artists who made them. It is very informative, fun, and it sounds great! The booklet is very detailed with great pictures and even more stories. If this doesn't make you a Motown fan, nothing will.
Steve Vrana's review is inaccurate. The Motown Story is not a condensed version of the Hitsville Box Set, which was a collection of Motown's mono singles. This is a collection of stories and select stereo singles, a completely different concept.
This did appear three times earlier as different collections: The Motown Story: The First Decade (5 LP vinyl set in 1970), The Motown Story: The First 25 Years (5 LP vinyl set in 1983) and The Motown Story: The First 25 Years (3 CD set in 1986), but this is the best version yet! Let's hope for Volume 2: The 1970s soon!
It was apparent that Mr. Vrana never actually listened or purchased this collection because he also said that the CDs were too short, never commenting on the interviews. These CDs are full length, they couldn't fit another song on either CD!
If you are a casual listener, or intense Motown fan and want to buy one Motown collection, get this!
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