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Music : Motown Chartbusters Volume 1
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Motown Chartbusters Volume 1 by: Various Artists List Price: £5.99 CD-Charts Price: £3.97 You Save: £2.02 (34%)Prices subject to change. |
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Binding: Audio CD EAN: 0731455414424 Label: Spectrum Music Manufacturer: Spectrum Music Number Of Discs: 1 Publisher: Spectrum Music Release Date: November 10, 1997 Running Time: 44 minutes Studio: Spectrum Music Sales Rank: 16669 Disc 1:
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 Rating: - The First of a Legengary SeriesA couple of decades before the 'Now' series started, even years before all those 'K-Tel' and 'Ronco' albums, Tamla Motown in Britain were trotting out their finest on compilations. This one released in autumn 1967, catalogues the patchy but growing popularity of the Motown sound in Britain in 1966/7. It may have seemed folly to put so many hits on one album, but they were looking to raise their profile and to consolidate on their recent successes. Let me take it back a little further. Tamla Motown's first album in Britain, released in spring 1965 was '16 Big Hits'. That series continued for the rest of the 60s, reaching Volume 8. They continued in conjunction with the Chartbusters, featuring betwixt and between ... Read More: Rating: - Volume 1 of 12 looks at 1966 and 1967This series of Motown recordings is in approximate chronological order but only begins in 1966. This means that some notable early UK hits are missing from the series including hits by the Supremes (Where did our love go, Stop in the name of love, You can't hurry love) and the Four tops (It's the same old song, Loving you is sweeter than ever, Reach out I'll be there) as well as tracks by the Temptations, Stevie Wonder and others - and that's not counting all the great Motown songs from the early sixties that were big hits in America but didn't chart in Britain. Some early classics such as Baby love, Dancing in the street and My guy, all of which first made the UK charts in 1964, re-entered the UK charts later and are included in the volumes ... Read More: |
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