Come and Get These Memories - Martha & the Vandellas
Pride and Joy - Gaye, Marvin
Fingertips, Pt. 2 [Live] - Cosby, Henry
(Love Is Like A) Heat Wave - Martha & the Vandellas
Mickey's Monkey - Dozier, Lamont
Leaving Here - Dozier, Lamont
The Way You Do the Things You Do - Robinson, Smokey
My Guy - Robinson, Smokey
Devil With a Blue Dress On - Long, Fredrick
Every Little Bit Hurts - Cobb, Ed
Baby I Need Your Loving - Dozier, Lamont
Dancing in the Street - Martha & the Vandellas
My Smile Is Just a Frown (Turned Upside Down) - Crawford, Carolyn
Needle in a Haystack - Velvelettes
Baby Love - Supremes
Come See About Me - Supremes
How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved by You) - Gaye, Marvin
Track Listings (28) - Disc #2
My Girl - Robinson, Smokey
He Was Really Sayin' Somethin' - Holland, Eddie
Ask the Lonely - Hunter, Ivy Jo
Shotgun - DeWalt, Autry
Nowhere to Run - Martha & the Vandellas
When I'm Gone - Robinson, Smokey
Ooo Baby Baby - Moore, Warren "Pete
I Can't Help Myself (Sugar Pie, Honey Bunch) - Dozier, Lamont
First I Look at the Purse - Robinson, Smokey
The Tracks of My Tears - Moore, Warren "Pete
It's the Same Old Song - Dozier, Lamont
Love (Makes Me Do Foolish Things) - Martha & the Vandellas
Take Me in Your Arms (Rock Me a Little While) - Dozier, Lamont
Uptight (Everything's Alright) - Cosby, Henry
Don't Mess with Bill - Robinson, Smokey
Darling Baby - Dozier, Lamont
This Old Heart of Mine (Is Weak for You) - Dozier, Lamont
Greetings (This Is Uncle Sam) - Bateman, Robert
Function at the Junction
(I'm A) Road Runner - Dozier, Lamont
Ain't Too Proud to Beg - Holland, Eddie
What Becomes of the Brokenhearted - Dean, James [Produc
How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved by You) - Dozier, Lamont
Love's Gone Bad - Dozier, Lamont
You Can't Hurry Love - Dozier, Lamont
Beauty Is Only Skin Deep - Holland, Eddie
Heaven Must Have Sent You - Dozier, Lamont
Shorty Long - Holland, Eddie
Track Listings (26) - Disc #3
Reach Out (I'll Be There) - Dozier, Lamont
(I Know) I'm Losing You - Grant, Cornelius
Standing in the Shadows of Love - Dozier, Lamont
It Takes Two - Moy, Sylvia
The Hunter Gets Captured by the Game - Robinson, Smokey
Jimmy Mack - Dozier, Lamont
Bernadette - Dozier, Lamont
Ain't No Mountain High Enough - Ashford, Nickolas
More Love - Robinson, Smokey
I Heard It Through the Grapevine - Strong, Barrett
I Second That Emotion - Cleveland, Al [1]
I Wish It Would Rain - Penzabene, Roger
Does Your Mama Know About Me - Baird, Tom
Ain't Nothing Like the Real Thing - Ashford, Nickolas
Love Child - Richards, Deke
For Once in My Life - Miller, Ron [1]
Cloud Nine - Strong, Barrett
I Heard It Through the Grapevine - Strong, Barrett
Baby, Baby Don't Cry - Cleveland, Alfred
Twenty-Five Miles - Bristol, Johnny
My Whole World Ended (The Moment You Left Me) - Bristol, Johnny
What Does It Take (To Win Your Love) - Bristol, Johnny
I Can't Get Next to You - Strong, Barrett
Baby, I'm for Real - Gaye, Anna Gordy
Up the Ladder to the Roof - DiMirco, Vincent
I Can't Give Back the Love I Feel for You - Ashford, Nickolas
Track Listings (22) - Disc #4
I Want You Back - Gordy, Berry Jr.
Get Ready - Robinson, Smokey
ABC - Gordy, Berry Jr.
Ball of Confusion (That's What the World Is Today) - Strong, Barrett
The Love You Save - Corporation [1]
Signed, Sealed, Delivered I'm Yours - Garrett, Lee
War - Strong, Barrett
It's a Shame - Garrett, Lee
Ain't No Mountain High Enough - Ashford, Nickolas
Still Water (Love) - Robinson, Smokey
I'll Be There - Davis, Hal
The Tears of a Clown - Cosby, Henry
Stoned Love - Samoht, Yennik
The Bells - Gaye, Anna Gordy
Just My Imagination (Running Away with Me) - Strong, Barrett
What's Going On - Benson, Renaldo
Never Can Say Goodbye - Davis, Clifton
Nathan Jones - Caston, Leonard
I Don't Want to Do Wrong - Bristol, Johnny
Smiling Faces Sometimes - Strong, Barrett
Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology) - Gaye, Marvin
I Just Want to Celebrate - Fekaris, Dino
Motown did so many things well in the '60s and early '70s that this overview of the label's smashes (and some lesser-known classics) practically demands four CDs. It gets them, too, filling them with single mixes of more t... more »han 100 tracks. That the running order begins with Barrett Strong's statement of purpose "Money (That's What I Want)" and ends with Marvin Gaye's statement of concern "Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology)" says a lot about how far the company moved in its golden decade--but no more so than what the same two cuts' differences in sound get across. The company was able to blend the smooth and the harsh in ways that few other pop entities have ever mastered, thereby getting over not only to the feet and the wallet, but to the heart. --Rickey Wright« less
Motown did so many things well in the '60s and early '70s that this overview of the label's smashes (and some lesser-known classics) practically demands four CDs. It gets them, too, filling them with single mixes of more than 100 tracks. That the running order begins with Barrett Strong's statement of purpose "Money (That's What I Want)" and ends with Marvin Gaye's statement of concern "Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology)" says a lot about how far the company moved in its golden decade--but no more so than what the same two cuts' differences in sound get across. The company was able to blend the smooth and the harsh in ways that few other pop entities have ever mastered, thereby getting over not only to the feet and the wallet, but to the heart. --Rickey Wright
Track Listings (28) - Disc #1
