A Cellarful of Motown (Various Artists)
from Spectrum Audio
Disk 1: - Baby A Go-Go - Barbara McNair - All Your Love - Brenda Holloway - He Was Really Sayin' Something - Earl van Dyke (aka The Funk Brothers) - Danger Heartbreak Dead Ahead - Contours - Do I Love You - Chris Clark - Baby Hit And Run (alternate vocal) - The Contours - How Can I - Brenda Holloway - I Like Everything About You - The Contours (feat. Dennis Edwards) - All I do is think about you - Tammi Terrell - Lucky Lucky Me - Jimmy Ruffin - In The Neighborhood - Jimmy Ruffin - Poor Little Rich Girl - The Marvelettes - The Other Side Of Town - Marvelettes - Save My Love For A Rainy Day - Marv Johnson - Tell Me It's A Rumour Baby (instr) - Funk Brothers - If You Ever Get Your Hands On Love - Gladys Knight & The Pips - Are You Sure Love Is The Name Of The Game - Stevie Wonder - Until You Came Along - Carolyn Crawford - Before It's Over - Singing Sammy Ward - Long Gone Lover Velvelettes
Disk 2: - My Sugar Baby - Frank Wilson - Here Are The Pieces Of My Broken Heart - Gladys Knight & The Pips (alternate single 'ref' mix) - There's A Definite Change In You - The Temptations - Who You Gonna Run To - Brenda Holloway - It's Easy To Fall In Love With A Guy Like You - Martha & The Vandellas - The Touch Of Venus - Patrice Holloway - I Wish I Liked You (As Much As I Love You) - Marvin Gaye - Trapped In A Love Affair - Brenda Holloway - I Know How To Love Her - Jimmy Ruffin - Riding High On Love - Jr Walker & The All Stars - Why When Love Is Gone - The Originals (alternate single 'ref' mix) - If This World Were Mine - Fantastic Four (alternate single 'ref' mix) - Don't Let Me Down - Kim Weston - Don't Put Off Till Tomorrow What You Can Do Today - The Monitors (extended single mix) - Tell Me It Ain't The Truth - J J Barnes - You Made Me Feel Like (Everything Is Alright) - Syreeta - A Weakspot In My Heart - The Isley Brothers - Don't Make Me Live Without Your Love - The Lewis Sisters - It Must Be Love Baby - Chuck Jackson & Yvonne Fair - Ain't No Place Like Motown - The Velvelettes
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Binding/Format: Audio CD
Model No: 731454461924
Release Date: 03/06/2002
Availability: dispatched within 24 hours
Index: Music
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Music Pod Price: £5.77
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Compiled by Jazz FM's Richard Searling, A Cellarful of Motown is a truly astonishing 40-track collection featuring 39 previously unreleased 60s cuts plucked from Hitsville's archives. It's simply mind-boggling that only one of these stunning tracks--Jnr Walker's "Riding High on Love"--received an official release at the time. Incredibly, the others flunked Motown's weekly "quality control" meetings and were consigned to the vaults. Surely no other label in the history of popular music is blessed with such a boundless provision of timeless nuggets. Each gem here has been fastidiously restored from the original master tapes, so although many of these tunes are available as vinyl bootlegs on the northern-soul scene they are generally poorly pressed with inferior sound quality. This, then, is the compilation that Motown collectors have feverishly anticipated for years. It's almost impossible to pick standouts as the quality throughout is eye-rotatingly brilliant; however, celestial moments include Barbara McNair's infectious frugger "Baby A-Go-Go", Earl Van Dyke's exhilarating instrumental stampede through "He Was Really Sayin' Something", and one of the biggest northern-soul discoveries of recent years, Gladys Knight's phenomenal "If You Ever Get Your Hands on Love". This is an absolutely essential purchase for anyone even remotely interested in soul music. --Chris King
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Associated music album categories: R&B and Soul & Northern Soul |
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