Hitsville USA, Vol. 1: The Motown Singles Collection 1959-1971

by Motown

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Release Date:	1992-11-03
Label:	Motown
UPC:	737463631228
Binding:	Audio CD
Published By:	Motown
ASIN:	B000006NUW
Category:	Music

Tracks on Hitsville USA, Vol. 1: The Motown Singles Collection 1959-1971 by Motown

1. Money (That's What I Want) - Bradford, Janie
2. Shop Around - Gordy, Berry Jr.
3. Please Mr. Postman - Bateman, Robert
4. Jamie - Stevenson, William
5. The One Who Really Loves You - Robinson, Smokey
6. Do You Love Me - Gordy, Berry Jr.
7. Beechwood 4-5789 - Gaye, Marvin
8. You Beat Me to the Punch - Robinson, Smokey
9. Stubborn Kind of Fellow - Gaye, Marvin
10. Two Lovers - Robinson, Smokey
11. You've Really Got a Hold on Me - Robinson, Smokey
12. Come and Get These Memories - Martha & the Vandellas
13. Pride and Joy - Gaye, Marvin
14. Fingertips, Pt. 2 - Cosby, Henry
15. (Love Is Like A) Heat Wave - Martha & the Vandellas
16. Mickey's Monkey - Dozier, Lamont
17. Leaving Here - Dozier, Lamont
18. The Way You Do the Things You Do - Robinson, Smokey
19. My Guy - Robinson, Smokey
20. Devil With a Blue Dress On - Long, Fredrick
21. Every Little Bit Hurts - Cobb, Ed
22. Baby I Need Your Loving - Dozier, Lamont
23. Dancing in the Street - Martha & the Vandellas
24. My Smile Is Just a Frown (Turned Upside Down) - Crawford, Carolyn
25. Needle in a Haystack - Velvelettes
26. Baby Love - Supremes
27. Come See About Me - Supremes
28. How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved by You) - Gaye, Marvin
29. My Girl - Robinson, Smokey
30. He Was Really Sayin' Somethin' - Holland, Eddie
31. Ask the Lonely - Hunter, Ivy
32. Shotgun - DeWalt, Autry
33. Nowhere to Run - Martha & the Vandellas
34. When I'm Gone - Robinson, Smokey
35. Ooo Baby Baby - Moore, Warren "Pete
36. I Can't Help Myself (Sugar Pie, Honey Bunch) - Dozier, Lamont
37. First I Look at the Purse - Robinson, Smokey
38. The Tracks of My Tears - Moore, Warren "Pete
39. It's the Same Old Song - Dozier, Lamont
40. Love (Makes Me Do Foolish Things) - Martha & the Vandellas
41. Take Me in Your Arms (Rock Me a Little While) - Dozier, Lamont
42. Uptight (Everything's Alright) - Cosby, Henry
43. Don't Mess With Bill - Robinson, Smokey
44. Darling Baby - Dozier, Lamont
45. This Old Heart of Mine (Is Weak for You) - Dozier, Lamont
46. Greetings (This Is Uncle Sam) - Bateman, Robert
47. Function at the Junction - Holland, Eddie
48. (I'm A) Road Runner - Dozier, Lamont
49. Ain't Too Proud to Beg - Holland, Eddie
50. What Becomes of the Brokenhearted - Dean, James [Produc
51. How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved by You) - Dozier, Lamont
52. Love's Gone Bad - Dozier, Lamont
53. You Can't Hurry Love - Dozier, Lamont
54. Beauty Is Only Skin Deep - Holland, Eddie
55. Heaven Must Have Sent You - Dozier, Lamont
56. Reach Out (I'll Be There) - Dozier, Lamont
57. (I Know) I'm Losing You - Grant, Cornelius
58. Standing in the Shadows of Love - Dozier, Lamont
59. It Takes Two - Moy, Sylvia
60. Hunter Gets Captured by the Game - Robinson, Smokey
61. Jimmy Mack - Dozier, Lamont
62. Bernadette - Dozier, Lamont
63. Ain't No Mountain High Enough - Ashford, Nickolas
64. More Love - Robinson, Smokey
65. I Heard It Through the Grapevine - Strong, Barrett
66. I Second That Emotion - Cleveland, Al
67. I Wish It Would Rain - Penzabene, Roger
68. Does Your Mama Know About Me - Baird, Tom
69. Ain't Nothing Like the Real Thing - Ashford, Nickolas
70. Love Child - Richards, Deke
71. For Once in My Life - Miller, Ron [1]
72. Cloud Nine - Strong, Barrett
73. I Heard It Through the Grapevine - Strong, Barrett
74. Baby, Baby Don't Cry - Cleveland, Alfred
75. Twenty-Five Miles - Bristol, Johnny
76. My Whole World Ended (The Moment You Left Me) - Bristol, Johnny
77. What Does It Take (To Win Your Love) - Bristol, Johnny
78. I Can't Get Next to You - Strong, Barrett
79. Baby, I'm for Real - Gaye, Anna Gordy
80. Up the Ladder to the Roof - DiMirco, Vincent
81. I Can't Give Back the Love I Feel for You - Ashford, Nickolas
82. I Want You Back - Gordy, Berry Jr.
83. Get Ready - Robinson, Smokey
84. ABC - Gordy, Berry Jr.
85. Ball of Confusion (That's What the World Is Today) - Strong, Barrett
86. The Love You Save - Corporation [1]
87. Signed, Sealed, Delivered I'm Yours - Garrett, Lee
88. War - Strong, Barrett
89. It's a Shame - Garrett, Lee
90. Ain't No Mountain High Enough - Ashford, Nickolas
91. Still Water (Love) - Robinson, Smokey
92. I'll Be There - Davis, Hal
93. Tears of a Clown - Cosby, Henry
94. Stoned Love - Samoht, Yennik
95. The Bells - Gaye, Anna Gordy
96. Just My Imagination (Running Away With Me) - Strong, Barrett
97. What's Going On - Benson, Renaldo
98. Never Can Say Goodbye - Davis, Clifton
99. Nathan Jones - Caston, Leonard
100. I Don't Want to Do Wrong - Bristol, Johnny
101. Smiling Faces Sometimes - Strong, Barrett
102. Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology) - Gaye, Marvin
103. I Just Want to Celebrate - Fekaris, Dino

Editorial Reviews and Product Descriptions

Customer Reviews

Great Motown Collection for Great Price - Reviewed on 2008-07-30

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 - Reviewed on 2008-07-13

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 - Reviewed on 2008-06-20

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 - Reviewed on 2007-11-17

1 customer 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! - Reviewed on 2007-10-15

1 customer found this review helpful, 1 did not.

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.

Book Subjects

• 60's
• 70's
• AM Pop
• Album Rock
• Bass
• Bop
• Box Sets (Audio Only)
• Bubblegum
• Crossover Jazz
• Disco
• Early Pop/Rock
• Early R&B
• Frat Rock
• Funk
• Fusion
• Girl Group
• Hard Bop
• Motown
• Northern Soul
• Pop