Track Listing
DISC 1:
1. Money (That's What I Want) - Barrett Strong
2. Shop Around - The Miracles
3. Please Mr. Postman - The Marvelettes
4. Jamie - Eddie Holland
5. One Who Really Loves You, The - Mary Wells
6. Do You Love Me - The Contours
7. Beechwood 4-5789 - The Marvelettes
8. You Beat Me to the Punch - Mary Wells
9. Stubborn Kind of Fellow - Marvin Gaye
10. Two Lovers - Mary Wells
11. You've Really Got a Hold on Me - The Miracles
12. Come and Get These Memories - Martha Reeves & The Vandellas
13. Pride and Joy - Marvin Gaye
14. Fingertips (Part 2) - Stevie Wonder
15. Heat Wave (Love Is Like A) - Martha Reeves & The Vandellas
16. Mickey's Monkey - The Miracles
17. Leaving Here - Eddie Holland
18. Way You Do the Things You Do, The - The Temptations
19. My Guy - Mary Wells
20. Devil With the Blue Dress - Shorty Long
21. Every Little Bit Hurts - Brenda Holloway
22. Baby I Need Your Loving - The Four Tops
23. Dancing in the Street - Martha Reeves & The Vandellas
24. My Smile Is Just a Frown (Turned Upside Down) - Carolyn Crawford
25. Needle in a Haystack - The Velvelettes
26. Baby Love - The Supremes
27. Come See About Me - The Supremes
28. How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved by You) - Marvin Gaye
DISC 2:
1. My Girl - The Temptations
2. He Was Really Sayin' Somethin' - The Velvelettes
3. Ask the Lonely - The Four Tops
4. Shotgun - Junior Walker & the All-Stars
5. Nowhere to Run - Martha Reeves & The Vandellas
6. When I'm Gone - Brenda Holloway
7. OOO Baby Baby - The Miracles
8. I Can't Help Myself (Sugar Pie Honey Bunch) - The Four Tops
9. First I Look at the Purse - The Contours
10. Tracks of My Tears, The - The Miracles
11. It's the Same Old Song - The Four Tops
12. Love (Makes Me Do Foolish Things) - Martha Reeves & The Vandellas
13. Take Me in Your Arms (Rock Me a Little While) - Kim Weston
14. Uptight (Everything's Alright) - S. Wonder
15. Don't Mess With Bill - The Marvelettes
16. Darling Baby - The Elgins
17. This Old Heart of Mine (Is Weak For You) - The Isley Brothers
18. Greetings (This Is Uncle Sam) - The Monitors
19. Function at the Junction - Shorty Long
20. Roadrunner (I'm A) - Junior Walker & the All-Stars
21. Ain't Too Proud to Beg - The Temptations
22. What Becomes of the Brokenhearted - Jimmy Ruffin
23. How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved by You) - Junior Walker & the All-Stars
24. Love's Gone Bad - Chris Clark
25. You Can't Hurry Love - The Supremes
26. Beauty Is Only Skin Deep - The Temptations
27. Heaven Must Have Sent You - The Elgins
DISC 3:
1. Reach Out I'll Be There - The Four Tops
2. I'm Losing You (I Know) - The Temptations
3. Standing in the Shadows of Love - The Four Tops
4. It Takes Two - Marvin Gaye & Kim Weston
5. Hunter Gets Captured by the Game, The - The Marvelettes
6. Jimmy Mack - Martha Reeves & The Vandellas
7. Bernadette - The Four Tops
8. Ain't No Mountain High Enough - Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell
9. More Love - Smokey Robinson & the Miracles
10. I Heard It Through the Grapevine - Gladys Knight & the Pips
11. I Second That Emotion - Smokey Robinson & the Miracles
12. I Wish It Would Rain - The Temptations
13. I Can't Give Back the Love I Feel For You - Rita Wright
14. Does Your Mama Know About Me -Bobby Taylor and the Vancouvers
15. Ain't Nothing Like the Real Thing - Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell
16. Love Child - Diana Ross & the Supremes
17. For Once in My Life - Stevie Wonder
18. Cloud Nine - The Temptations
19. I Heard It Through the Grapevine - M. Gaye
20. Baby, Baby Don't Cry - Smokey Robinson & the Miracles
21. Twenty-Five Miles - Edwin Starr
22. My Whole World Ended (The Moment You Left Me) - David Ruffin
23. What Does It Take (To Win Your Love) - Junior Walker & the All-Stars
24. I Can't Get Next to You - The Temptations
25. Baby I'm For Real - The Originals
26. Up the Ladder to the Roof - The Supremes
DISC 4:
1. I Want You Back - The Jackson 5
2. Bells, The - The Originals
3. Get Ready - Rare Earth
4. ABC - The Jackson 5
5. Ball of Confusion (That's What the World Is Today) - The Temptations
6. Love You Save, The - The Jackson 5
7. Signed, Sealed, Delivered I'm Yours - Stevie Wonder
8. War - Edwin Starr
9. It's a Shame - The Spinners
10. Ain't No Mountain High Enough - Diana Ross & the Supremes
11. Still Water (Love) - The Four Tops
12. I'll Be There - The Jackson 5
13. Tears of a Clown, The - Smokey Robinson & the Miracles
14. Stoned Love - The Supremes
15. If I Were Your Woman - Gladys Knight & the Pips
16. Just My Imagination (Running Away With Me) - The Temptations
17. What's Going On - Marvin Gaye
18. Never Say Goodbye - The Jackson 5
19. Nathan Jones - The Supremes
20. I Don't Want to Do Wrong - Gladys Knight/Pips
21. Smiling Faces Sometimes - The Undisputed Truth
22. Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology) - Marvin Gaye
23. I Just Want to Celebrate - Rare Earth
| Details | | Playing Time: | 303 min. | | Distributor: | Universal Distribution | | Recording Type: | Mixed | | Recording Mode: | Mixed | | SPAR Code: | n/a |
Album Notes
This 4-CD box set contains a 68-page booklet featuring artist biographies, track-by-track annotations, a historical Motown timeline, musician credits, rare photos and memorabilia from the Motown archives. Also included are essays by Harry Weinger, Janie Bradford, Larry Gabriel, Paul Grein, Elvis Mitchell, David Ritz, Leo Sacks, Allan "Dr. Licks" Slutsky and Adam White.
Engineers include: Mike McClain, Lawrence Horn, Robert Bateman.
Compilation producers: Cary E. Mansfield and Patti Drosins.
This is part of the Motown Master Series.
Instead of following Stax/Volt's pattern and delivering an exhaustive box set containing all of their singles, Motown decided to limit their singles box, Hitsville USA: The Motown Singles Collection 1959-1971, to four discs that concentrated on the hits. There are a handful of wonderful lesser-known songs here, such as the Contours' "First I Look at the Purse," but the main strength of the 103-track box is that it features all of the biggest songs from Motown's golden era in one place. Collectors could have used a more comprehensive set, and the box itself could have been packaged with a little more care (there are no artists listed on the back of the individual discs, only songs), but Hitsville USA stands as a definitive overview and introduction to one of the most groundbreaking labels in pop music history. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine
Editorial Reviews
5 Stars - Indispensable - ...the face of popular music changed for good right here...
Q (02/01/1993)
9 - Excellent Plus - ...Strung end to end, it's over 250 minutes of the best jukebox you've ever heard, mastered properly so that it blasts out like it was made yesterday...
NME (03/06/1993)
...the finest Motown collection on the market... - Rating: A
Entertainment Weekly (12/11/1992)
[The] holy grail presenting hits....[With] gospel-choir stompers, raw blues, and ghetto novelties...
Spin
4 stars out of 5 - It's the most informative and fascinating music document about the label's earliest days you'll ever need.
Mojo
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