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Hitsville USA: The Motown Singles Collection 1959-1971 | 
 enlarge | Artist: Various Artists
Label: Motown
Category: Music
List Price: $51.98
Buy New: $24.95
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Rating:  59 reviews
Sales Rank: 2800
Format: Box Set
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 4
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.6
Dimensions (in): 12.3 x 6 x 1.4
MPN: 6312
UPC: 737463631228
EAN: 0737463631228
ASIN: B000006NUW
Release Date: November 3, 1992
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Tracks:
Disc 1
| • | Money (That's What I Want) - Bradford, Janie | | • | Shop Around - Gordy, Berry Jr. | | • | Please Mr. Postman - Bateman, Robert | | • | Jamie - Stevenson, William | | • | The One Who Really Loves You - Robinson, Smokey | | • | Do You Love Me - Gordy, Berry Jr. | | • | Beechwood 4-5789 - Gaye, Marvin | | • | You Beat Me to the Punch - Robinson, Smokey | | • | Stubborn Kind of Fellow - Gaye, Marvin | | • | Two Lovers - Robinson, Smokey | | • | You've Really Got a Hold on Me - Robinson, Smokey | | • | Come and Get These Memories - Martha & the Vandellas | | • | Pride and Joy - Gaye, Marvin | | • | Fingertips, Pt. 2 - 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 |
Disc 2
| • | My Girl - Robinson, Smokey | | • | He Was Really Sayin' Somethin' - Holland, Eddie | | • | Ask the Lonely - Hunter, Ivy | | • | 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 - Holland, Eddie | | • | (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 |
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 | | • | 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 | | • | 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 |
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 | | • | 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 |
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| Editorial Reviews:
Amazon.com
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
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| Customer Reviews:
 Great Motown Collection for Great Price July 30, 2008
C. Oxford (Florida, USA)
JULY 2008 REVIEW: I purchased this particular box set a little over a month ago, and I must say: it does NOT disappoint. You really can't complain; although the box set was released several years ago, and therefore the early 1990's CD mastering here isn't necessarily as strong and powerful sounding as a 2008 mastering might be, the tracks presented here are bright and clear. Approximately 100 tracks fill out this 4-CD box set, and most of the songs are winners. And they are presented here in their original mono sound mixes as originally released (an apparent problem for some reviewers here, but I had no issue with it; the songs sound the same as they always have). I was certainly surprised upon listening, track after track, that I was familiar with almost every song on the set. And this many songs for the price!?! Right now, you really can't beat it.
I am very aware of the new MOTOWN box sets chronicling every "single" released over the years ("The Complete Singles Collection-1967" for example), but at roughly 100 bucks each, those exhaustive sets are very pricey and really only for hardcore Motown fans (and I for one would love to collect all of those sets one day, but purchasing the entire 1960's collection would run over one thousand dollars!!).
With this box set, of course everything cannot be represented, but a 100+ song collection for (as of now) 35 bucks is a real bargain for a casual fan looking for a basic overall Motown song experience.
Motown Greats July 13, 2008
wildwoman
After visitng the Motown Museum, this complilation of hits was just what we needed for great memories. Takes one back to their dancing days!
Nice collection June 20, 2008
Cut My Teeth on 60s Music (Minnesota)
I was a little torn about whether to purchase this box set. I already own many of the cuts. But there are so many great songs from the time when I was a huge Motown fan that I decided to get it. Putting all the hits (and not just the most familiar) together makes for a fun collection. It is great to listen to while at work or on the road.
Hitsville USA: The Motown Singles Collection 1959-1971 November 17, 2007
James E. Smith
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
The Motown Hits Collection is absolutely marvelous! It is a varied collection of memories and history of music in the 60's and 70's from the African-American perspective. It is music for those who enjoy excellent musical arrangements,clear and wholesome lyrics, and music that is filled with love and inspiration from the Motown writers, arrangers, and singers. Above all, it is tribute to Barry Gordy who founded Motown when our world was in racial and political turmoil. He reached in and made some sense of it all. Thanks to him, Smoky Robinson, Holland-Dozier-Holland, Ashford and Simpson, The Miracles, Marvin Gaye, Tammi Terell, Kim Weston, Mary Wells, Brenda Holloway, The Marvelettes, Martha and The Vanellas, Stevie Wonder, The Supremes, The Temptations, Gladys Knight and The Pips, Diana Ross, and many others for making this magnificant music that we have today. This music is timeless and universal. It's guaranteed to please, to soothe, to stimulate, to conjure up memories, and to entertain your deepest sense of pleasure. Sit back, quiet your mind, listen, snap your fingers, stomp your feet as you journey into a galaxy of historical and musical delight.
The REAL Story: This set is PURPOSELY in Mono, for those of you who are wrongly complaining! October 15, 2007
Michael Frank (Bellevue, WA United States)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
This set was PURPOSELY mastered in all mono, for the uninformed complainers among you! These are the tracks THE WAY THEY WERE ORIGINALLY RELEASED AND THE WAY YOU STILL HEAR THEM ON THE RADIO TODAY!
Motown had been releasing stereo versions of these songs on CD for YEARS starting in about 1985-86. Many customers complained that those were NOT the versions they had remembered hearing, in the 1960s OR the 1980s (on oldies radio). The artists' voices sounded wrong, for one thing. That's because the stereo versions were usually NEW recordings made with the artist RE-SINGING the song--and they sounded different--not the way we remembered. So, Motown in 1992 brought in top remastering engineers to go through the original tapes and re-master the original hits, the way they were originally cut, as SUNG originally.
This set represents the fruit of those efforts, and it is SUPERB. The mono recordings at all times have more punch than the stereo verions, since the stereo cuts were made for albums compiled LATER. The stereo effect itself was often a phony "stereo-like" dilution only, not true stereo. The true hit versions are what you hear on this unrivaled set.
The complaining reviewers here simply have no idea about the history of this set, which was a MAJOR project undertaken to bring back the best and ACTUAL sound, period.
My only concern . . . "What's Going On" by Marvin Gaye was, as I recall, the name of a song and its album. It was released on the album first, hence the mono version on this boxed set (which isn't as smooth and is more "funky" to me), was the afterthought version. While mono, it's NOT the original, so I don't see why it's here.
Otherwise, the only omission of real substance on this set appears to be some of the early Supremes hits . . . though, to me, if anything has been overplayed for years, those were the songs, and hence were the best choice to be omitted.
This set is the definitive Motown box set, ESPECIALLY CONCERNING AUDIO QUALITY. Those who desire stereo are just asking for the inferior versions. And those versions were available for years, because the Motown executives interviewed in the early 1990s indicated that they thought (wrongly) that stereo would be preferred on CD, even at the expense of having the true hit versions. They admitted their error, sought to correct it, and this project is the end result.
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