The Motown Collection

Motown - the place where hits were born. The distinct Motown sound of the '60s and '70s was undeniable, crafted from soulful melodies, soothing vocals and a hint of pop. Now, you can
own a piece of this legacy with
The Motown Collection, a compilation of 150 original Motown recordings. Features songs by The Temptations, The Supremes, Stevie Wonder, The Jackson 5, Four Tops and many more. Not available in stores!


10 CDs,
1 Collector's Box
& 1 Free DVD $149.95


DISC ONE-
1 Heat Wave Martha and The Vandellas 2:44
2 How Sweet It Is To Be Loved By You Marvin Gaye 3:00
3 My Girl The Temptations 2:57
4 Shotgun Jr. Walker & the All Stars 3:04
5 Shop Around The Miracles 2:48
6 Come See About Me The Supremes 2:43
7 Baby I Need Your Loving Four Tops 2:46
8 Baby Love The Supremes 2:40
9 He Was Really Sayin' Somethin' The Velvelettes 2:31
10 You Really Got A Hold On Me The Miracles 2:53
11 Fingertips - Part 2 Stevie Wonder 3:11
12 Please Mr. Postman The Marvelettes 2:31
13 Do You Love Me The Contours 2:54
14 The Way You Do The Things You Do The Temptations 2:40
15 You Beat Me To The Punch Mary Wells 2:45
DISC TWO-
1 Take Me In Your Arms (Rock Me A Little While) Kim Weston 2:59
2 Pride and Joy Marvin Gaye 2:08
3 All I Need The Temptations 3:18
4 Where Did Our Love Go The Supremes 2:33
5 Ask The Lonely Four Tops 2:40
6 Mickey's Monkey The Mirac` 2:47
7 The One Who Really Loves You Mary Wells 2:28
8 First I Look At The Purse The Contours 3:06
9 Come and Get These Memories Martha and The Vandellas 2:22
10 Stubborn Kind of Fellow Marvin Gaye 2:45
11 Needle In A Haystack The Velvelettes 2:25
12 Beechwood 4-5789 The Marvelettes 2:11
13 My Guy Mary Wells 2:50
14 Money (That's What I Want) Barrett Strong 2:36
15 Every Little Bit Hurts Brenda Holloway 2:52
DISC THREE-
1 I Heard It Through The Grapevine Gladys Knight & The Pips 2:46
2 Uptight (Everything's Alright) Stevie Wonder 2:55
3 I Wish It Would Rain The Temptations 2:53
4 Ain't No Mountain High Enough Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell 2:29
5 Ooo Baby Baby The Miracles 2:44
6 Jimmy Mack Martha and The Vandellas 2:51
7 (I'm A) Road Runner Jr. Walker & the All Stars 2:43
8 The Hunter Gets Captured By The Game The Marvelettes 2:50
9 (I Know) I'm Losing You The Temptations 2:28
10 It Takes Two Marvin Gaye & Kim Weston 2:56
11 My Baby Loves Me Martha and The Vandellas 3:04
12 Standing In The Shadows of Love Four Tops 2:36
13 You're My Everything The Temptations 3:11
14 Stop! In The Name of Love The Supremes 2:53
15 What Becomes Of The Brokenhearted Jimmy Ruffin 2:58
DISC FOUR-
1 Dancing In The Street Martha and The Vandellas 2:40
2 You Can't Hurry Love The Supremes 2:46
3 Ain't Too Proud to Beg The Temptations 3:41
4 Two Lovers Mary Wells 3:26
5 It's The Same Old Song Four Tops 3:11
6 Beauty Is Only Skin Deep The Temptations 3:25
7 Don't Mess With Bill The Marvelettes 3:45
8 Going To A Go-Go The Miracles 3:30
9 I Can't Help Myself (Sugar Pie, Honey Bunch) Four Tops 4:07
10 Bernadette Four Tops 3:45
11 I Hear A Symphony The Supremes 4:15
12 Nowhere To Run Martha and The Vandellas 4:13
13 Since I Lost My Baby The Temptations 5:12
14 This Old Heart Of Mine (Is Weak For You) The Isley Brothers 4:47
15 The Tracks Of My Tears The Miracles 4:37
DISC FIVE-
1 Signed, Seal, Delivered, I'm Yours Stevie Wonder 2:40
2 I Heard It Through The Grapevine Marvin Gaye 3:14
3 I Second That Emotion Smokey Robinson & The Miracles 2:46
4 Love Child Diana Ross And The Supremes 2:58
5 Ain't Nothing Like The Real Thing Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell 2:18
6 I Want You Back The Jackson 5 2:54
7 Quicksand Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell 2:36
8 I'm Gonna Make You Love Me Diana Ross And The Supremes & The Temptations 3:08
9 Reach Out, I'll Be There Four Tops 2:56
10 The Tears Of A Clown Smokey Robinson & The Miracles 2:58
11 War Edwin Starr 3:22
12 My Cherie Amour Stevie Wonder 2:53
13 When You're Young And In Love The Marvelettes 2:39
14 You're All I Need To Get By Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell 2:39
15 Baby, I'm For Real The Originals 3:17
DISC SIX-
1 I'm Ready For Love Martha and The Vandellas 2:58
2 For Once In My Life Stevie Wonder 2:50
3 Someday We'll Be Together Diana Ross & The Supremes 3:30
4 Cloud Nine The Temptations 3:30
5 It's A Shame The Spinners 3:11
6 ABC The Jackson 5 2:58
7 More Love Smokey Robinson & The Miracles 2:49
8 Love Is Here And Now You're Gone The Supremes 2:46
9 My Whole World Ended (The Moment You Left Me) David Ruffin 3:29
10 Playboy The Marvelettes 2:47
11 Blowin' In The Wind Stevie Wonder 3:06
12 Twenty-Five Miles Edwin Starr 3:20
13 Reflections Diana Ross and The Supremes 2:51
14 What Does It Take (To Win Your Love) Jr. Walker & the All Stars 2:29
15 The Bells The Originals 3:01
DISC SEVEN-
1 If I Were Your Woman Gladys Knight & The Pips 3:12
2 Let's Get It On Marvin Gaye 4:52
3 Superstition Stevie Wonder 4:14
4 Just My Imagination (Running Away From Me) The Temptations 3:48
5 I Just Want to Celebrate Rare Earth 2:52
6 I'll Be There The Jackson 5 3:44
7 Keep On Truckin' (Part 1) Eddie Kendricks 3:36
8 I Don't Want To Do Wrong Gladys Knight & The Pips 3:23
9 Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology) Marvin Gaye 2:30
10 Ain't No Mountain High Enough Diana Ross 3:36
11 Dancing Machine The Jackson 5 2:42
12 Stoned Love The Supremes 3:00
13 I Can't Get Next To You The Temptations 2:54
14 My Mistake (Was To Love You) Diana Ross & Marvin Gaye 2:56
15 Ben Michael Jackson 2:47
DISC EIGHT-
1 You Are The Sunshine of My Life Stevie Wonder 2:54
2 Get Ready Rare Earth 2:49
3 What's Going On Marvin Gaye 3:57
4 Papa Was A Rollin' Stone The Temptations 6:55
5 Never Can Say Goodbye The Jackson 5 2:57
6 Neither One Of Us (Wants To Be The First To Say Goodbye) Gladys Knight & The Pips 4:22
7 Ball of Confusion (That's What The World Is Today) The Temptations 4:04
8 You're A Special Part of Me Diana Ross & Marvin Gaye 3:39
9 Still Water (Love) Four Tops 3:14
10 The Love You Save The Jackson 5 3:03
11 Up The Ladder To The Roof The Supremes 3:12
12 Got To Be There Michael Jackson 3:23
13 Walk Away From Love David Ruffin 5:30
14 Touch Me In The Morning Diana Ross 3:27
15 Easy Commodores 4:22
DISC NINE-
1 Sir Duke Stevie Wonder 3:56
2 Being With You Smokey Robinson 4:06
3 All Night Long (All Night) Lionel Richie 4:15
4 Got To Give It Up (Part I) Marvin Gaye 4:14
5 Super Freak (Part I) Rick James 3:21
6 Sail On Commodores 3:53
7 Love Hangover Diana Ross 3:44
8 I Just Called To Say I Love You Stevie Wonder 4:23
9 Don't Leave Me This Way Thelma Houston 3:38
10 Just To See Her Smokey Robinson 4:01
11 Smiling Faces Sometimes The Undisputed Truth 3:16
12 Brick House Commodores 3:30
13 Theme from Mahogany (Do You Know Where You're Going To) Diana Ross 3:23
14 Heaven Must Have Sent You Bonnie Pointer 3:34
15 It's So Hard To Say Goodbye To Yesterday Boyz II Men 2:47
DISC TEN-
1 Upside Down Diana Ross 3:39
2 Love Machine (Part I) The Miracles 2:57
3 Cruisin' Smokey Robinson 4:27
4 Part-Time Lover Stevie Wonder 3:44
5 Three Times A Lady Commodores 3:37
6 Boogie Down Eddy Kendricks 3:48
7 Let's Get Serious Jermaine Jackson 3:36
8 One Heartbeat Smokey Robinson 4:01
9 You And I Rick James 3:09
10 I Want You Marvin Gaye 3:57
11 Rhythm Of The Night DeBarge 3:54
12 End Of The Road Boyz II Men 5:53
13 The Boss Diana Ross 3:54
14 When I'm Gone Brenda Holloway 2:09
15 Still Commodores 3:46


The Motown Collection DVD

You'll also receive a FREE DVD of 12 performances from your favorite Motown artists.


http://www.timelife.com/webapp/wcs/stor ... ctId=63001

Am the only one p'd off that companies keep releasing these multi-disc anthologies with discs that are well below capacity? Fifteen three-minute songs per CD?

Without putting too fine a point on it, those 450-500 minutes that take up 10 CDs could easily be placed on seven, maybe even six CDs. But then, they couldn't charge a $150 for it.

They'd have to, to maintain margins -- in the U.S., it's the number of tracks that determines royalties, not the number of discs. As to pressing, I'd say that the difference between 6 and 10 discs is negligible. But of course (and this may be what you're getting at) ten CDs looks like more, the total number of tracks notwithstanding.

Or: would a person who would pay $150 for ten compact discs be willing to pay, say, $135 for the same number of songs on six discs? Unless you're paying attention, ten discs looks like the better deal.

"would a person who would pay $150 for ten compact discs be willing to pay, say, $135 for the same number of songs on six discs? Unless you're paying attention, ten discs looks like the better deal."

Probably not because most Americans are mathematically illiterate. Best Buy has a bunch of 3-CD "Box Sets" of people like Neil Diamond, packaged as round tin boxes, with 12 songs per disc. Fewer total songs than many two-CD sets. But they're 3-CDs. What a great buy.

Of course much of my concern comes from space considerations. Many on this board can sympathize but most people don't have that problem.

I totally agree about multi-disc sets that come nowhere near capacity for each disc. One typical giveaway is when they make a big deal on the front cover about how many CDs are in the set. Best Buy and other stores have entire sections of these. It's really kind of insulting when you think about it.

As for this particular set, I'll make the obvious point that there isn't exactly a lack of Motown compilations already out there. Still, thanks to the inevitable late night informercials, this Time-Life collection will reach people who might never browse a CD department or look at AmazWAN. I suspect it will be a big seller.

These three disc "box sets" have been around for years. I remember seeing them in places like Costco, Sam's Club and BJ's over a decade ago. Even then, all I had to do was look at the number of tracks per disc to realize what a waste of disc space they were.

Hitsville U.S.A., baby. Hitsville U.S.A. is the way to go when it comes to Motown.

No argument here. They did that one right.

I still play it all the time, Dr. Evil. Great sound, great song selection (because they tossed in some lesser-known gems), great everything. You couldn't ask for a better box set. (I have only the first box, as those are THE classic Motown years.)

I think the complete Motown single boxes at Hip-O-Select are interesting, but I don't know if I'd really want to own every single and b-side. Hitsville USA sums that classic era up very nicely, I agree. And it's the only one you really need, because after Motown left Detroit, it wasn't the same.

I have several of the single artist compilations but I would like to get the Motown Box set that came out a few years ago (I believe in conjunction with a PBS special) as it concentrates on stereo mixes. I just haven't found a good deal on it yet.

I've got BOTH Hitsville USA sets (the 2nd one is pretty good too), and the Motown Box (stereo). Now there's 12 discs that pretty well sum everything up to me. Add the Deluxe Edition of the Standing In The Shadows soundtrack as a bonus look at the Funk Brothers' instrumentation, and you're good to go.

And if I had to drop something, it'd be the Motown Box (stereo). Some of the new Moulton mixes are flangey messes. But as curiosities they're OK.

I'm with you on the two "Hitsville USA" box sets and the deluxe edition of "Standing in the Shadows of Motown" as being great overviews of the Motown era (and I also like "The Motown Box" for the long versions of "Heat Wave" and "Please Mr. Postman" but those mixes by Tom Moulton will never take the place of the orignal single mixes that were done in Motown's heyday). And I agree with the folks who feel that the new 10 CD "Motown Box" set from Time-Life does not make the best use of CD playing time and they could've placed all of it's contents on fewer discs and charge a lower price for the box set