The Motown Box

The Motown Box Artist: Various Artists
Label: Motown
Category: Music


Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
Format: Original recording remastered
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 4


UPC: 602498832936
EAN: 0602498832936
ASIN: B000A0GPOK


Release Date: 2005-08-02

The Motown Box


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Tracks:

  1. The Miracles SHOP AROUND (hit version stereo mix)*
  2. The Marvelettes- PLEASE MR. POSTMAN (extended stereo mix)*
  3. The Contours- DO YOU LOVE ME (hit version stereo mix)*
  4. Mary Wells- TWO LOVERS
  5. The Miracles- YOUVE REALLY GOT A HOLD ON ME (extended stereo mix)
  6. Marvin Gaye- HITCH HIKE
  7. Stevie Wonder- FINGERTIPS PT. 2
  8. Martha & The Vandellas- (LOVE IS LIKE A) HEAT WAVE (single version, extended stereo mix)*
  9. Martha & The Vandellas- QUICKSAND (extended stereo mix)*
  10. The Miracles- MICKEYS MONKEY (extended stereo mix)
  11. Marvin Gaye- CAN I GET A WITNESS
  12. The Marvelettes- TOO MANY FISH IN THE SEA
  13. Four Tops- BABY I NEED YOUR LOVING (extended stereo mix)
  14. The Temptations- THE WAY YOU DO THE THINGS YOU DO
  15. The Supremes- WHEN THE LOVELIGHT STARTS SHINING THROUGH HIS EYES
  16. The Supremes- WHERE DID OUR LOVE GO (extended stereo mix)
  17. The Temptations- DONT LOOK BACK
  18. The Elgins- HEAVEN MUST HAVE SENT YOU
  19. Marvin Gaye- YOURE A WONDERFUL ONE
  20. The Supremes- COME SEE ABOUT ME (extended stereo mix)

Tracks:

  1. Martha & The Vandellas- DANCING IN THE STREET
  2. The Temptations- GET READY
  3. Kim Weston- TAKE ME IN YOUR ARMS (ROCK ME A LITTLE WHILE)
  4. The Supremes- BACK IN MY ARMS AGAIN (extended stereo mix)*
  5. The Miracles- GOING TO A GO-GO (extended stereo mix)*
  6. The Miracles- THE TRACKS OF MY TEARS (extended stereo mix)*
  7. Jr. Walker & The All Stars- SHOTGUN (extended stereo mix)*
  8. Four Tops- ITS THE SAME OLD SONG (alternate stereo mix)
  9. The Isley Brothers- THIS OLD HEART OF MINE (IS WEAK FOR YOU) (alternate stereo mix)
  10. Jimmy Ruffin- WHAT BECOMES OF THE BROKENHEARTED (alternate spokenword beginning, extended stereo mix)*
  11. The Spinners- ILL ALWAYS LOVE YOU
  12. Marvin Gaye- ILL BE DOGGONE
  13. Stevie Wonder- UPTIGHT (EVERYTHINGS ALRIGHT)*
  14. The Temptations- AINT TOO PROUD TO BEG (extended stereo strings mix)*
  15. Four Tops- I CANT HELP MYSELF (SUGAR PIE, HONEY BUNCH) (extended alternate background vocals stereo mix)
  16. Four Tops- SOMETHING ABOUT YOU
  17. The Supremes- STOP! IN THE NAME OF LOVE (extended stereo mix)*
  18. Mary Wells- MY GUY
  19. The Temptations- MY GIRL (extended stereo mix)*
  20. The Miracles- MY GIRL HAS GONE (extended stereo mix)*

Tracks:

  1. Martha & The Vandellas- NOWHERE TO RUN
  2. The Temptations- SINCE I LOST MY BABY (first-time stereo mix)*
  3. The Temptations- YOURE MY EVERYTHING
  4. The Miracles- (COME ROUND HERE) IM THE ONE YOU NEED
  5. The Supremes- MY WORLD IS EMPTY WITHOUT YOU (extended stereo mix)
  6. The Supremes- I HEAR A SYMPHONY (alternate stereo mix)
  7. Four Tops- REACH OUT, ILL BE THERE (extended stereo mix)*
  8. Four Tops- STANDING IN THE SHADOWS OF LOVE
  9. Stevie Wonder- A PLACE IN THE SUN
  10. Four Tops- SHAKE ME, WAKE ME (WHEN ITS OVER)
  11. The Supremes- LOVE IS LIKE AN ITCHING IN MY HEART (extended stereo mix)
  12. Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell- IF I COULD BUILD MY WHOLE WORLD AROUND YOU
  13. Martha & The Vandellas- JIMMY MACK (single version, extended stereo mix)*
  14. Four Tops- BERNADETTE
  15. Stevie Wonder- I WAS MADE TO LOVE HER
  16. The Marvelettes- DONT MESS WITH BILL
  17. Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell- AINT NO MOUNTAIN HIGH ENOUGH (extended stereo mix)*
  18. Gladys Knight & The Pips- I HEARD IT THROUGH THE GRAPEVINE
  19. Marvin Gaye- I HEARD IT THROUGH THE GRAPEVINE (extended soundtrack version)
  20. Diana Ross & The Supremes- REFLECTIONS (extended stereo mix)

Tracks:

  1. The Miracles- IVE BEEN GOOD TO YOU (extended stereo mix)*
  2. Stevie Wonder- PURPLE RAINDROPS (first-time stereo mix)*
  3. Marvin Gaye- PRETTY LITTLE BABY (first-time stereo mix)*
  4. The Supremes- LET ME GO THE RIGHT WAY
  5. The Temptations- YOULL LOSE A PRECIOUS LOVE (extended stereo mix)*
  6. Chris Clark- LOVES GONE BAD LOVE (extended stereo mix)*
  7. Martha & The Vandellas- THIRD FINGER, LEFT HAND (first-time stereo mix)*
  8. Gladys Knight & The Pips- STEPPIN CLOSER TO YOUR HEART (first-time stereo mix)*
  9. Four Tops- SINCE YOUVE BEEN GONE
  10. The Andantes- (LIKE A) NIGHTMARE (first-time stereo mix)*
  11. Brenda Holloway- JUST LOOK WHAT YOUVE DONE (extended stereo mix)*
  12. The Marvelettes- FOREVER (first-time stereo mix)*

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Customer Reviews:

4 out of 5 stars Mono is the place to start (and maybe stop).......2006-04-28

This box makes great listening on its own, but if you directly compare it to the Hitsville USA box of mono masters, the differences are quite dramatic. The stereo sound is softer, smoother and more colorful, but the mono tracks have a punch and intensity that the stereo tracks only occasionally match. I don't think anything has been botched here- the stereo mixes (where unaltered) are very similar to my LP box of stereo Motown hits- it's simply the best their equipment could do back then. Some of the remixes appear to have been done with a genuine effort to match the organic power of the mono tracks, and the results are fascinating. But I'd say the Hitsville USA has it where it matters- it swings harder, is more authentic, and costs less. Get over mono-phobia- Hitsville USA is the mandatory purchase.

2 out of 5 stars questionable choices and a 34 minute rip-off.......2006-03-31

with so many hits to choose from there is bound to be debate about what should be included in this set. there are some great works here, not my 1st choices, but as a 50 year old human i find myself reliving part of my childhood with each listening. the problem is with cd #4 which clocks in at 34 minutes which blows my mind. there are literally 1000s of hours of motown available and to fill a cd to less than 1/2 of it's capacity is a total rip-off. shame on you.

5 out of 5 stars Total Jams old skool- Motown Box.......2006-01-14

Have you ever listened to a song that you herd all your life.
Then you here a different version of it. You go what was that?
So when Old Skool got to playing this Motown Box his ears opened wide. I have always herd the Miracles Shop Around but it was in mono.The version in the Motown Box is in stereo, the first time in my life to here it so. The box has extended mix's,or alternate mix's, of all the old jam's you thought you remembered. So if you are a big Motown fan like T.J. Old Skool you have to put this on your list of got to have now !!

1 out of 5 stars Oh No They DIDN"T!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!.......2005-12-30

I was going to buy this, but I was reading the reviews and I would have been LIVID. I grew up with this music and in MY opinion, I like the MONO sound better than the stereo mixes because sometimes they can ruin the sound. Like for instance. On the Temptations "Get Ready" cd. Did you notice that "Say You" is in MONO but the rest of the stuff is in stereo. And who ever mixed "Fading Away" killed it. They brought the violins up way too high during the instrumental part. I will have to admit, the stereo of "This old heart of mines" (on the album by the Isley Bros" is a much crisper cleaner sound than the MONO version. Man, i was going to buy this but the more reviews I read, the more i did not want it. So I'll stick to Motown's Ultimate Collection. Thank you all for your realness and honesty about this

5 out of 5 stars Set your control to "Stereo".......2005-11-25

Ever since I heard the stereo version of The Supremes' "Nothing But Heartaches" in the Summer of Love from their Greatest Hits album (I had purchased "More Hits By The Supremes" in mono in the summer of '65) I wondered if their were any more stereo surprises because usually the stereo LP versions were so much shorter than the 45s. When they finally started mastering the single versions on countless of anthologies, I felt vindicated.

While collecting some of the individual artists albums (most recently The Millennium Collection by Kim Weston), I was greatly impressed with some of the full-length stereo versions, especially the duets with Marvin Gaye and "Helpless". Then, the latest anthologies by The Temptations and The Miracles with their many extended stereo mixes more than made my decade!

This latest collection of Motown re-mixes is remarkable because it shows our old favorites in a new setting. I understand the first reviewer's frustration in that some of the vocals or instrumentation is hard to hear (for instance, Joe Swift's "what key, what key?" question during the latter part of "Fingertips"). One has to come to grips with the fact that if the piano track is brought up, the reeds may not be so audible. The purpose of this set is not to bring the original product as we heard it on AM radio, but to present it in a different light. The constant cluck cluck cluck of the guitar in "Dancing In The Street", the banjo-like rhythm guitar in "Helpless" (heard on "The Best Of Kim Weston" and not here, unfortunately) and even things we've never heard like the alternate vocal of "I Hear A Symphony". The only waste of time on this set was "This Old Heart Of Mine", which was not an extended mix at all. The full length stereo version has always existed on the title album and on Rhino's "Isley Brothers' Story, Vol. 1. What is not credited as being an extended stereo mix is "Heaven Must Have Sent You" by The fabulous Elgins. I've never heard this version. The real surprises are "Reach Out, I'll Be There" and "The Tracks Of My Tears" which both flesh out to four minutes!

So, will these new stereo mixes ever take the place of the originals? Well, no, but they do justice to already great sounding records and it is nice to have multiple mixes of them.

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  5. Don't Be Cruel ~ Bobby Brown
  6. The Soul Mixtape ~ DJ Jazzy Jeff
  7. PART III ~ One Twelve
  8. Lalah Hathaway ~ Lalah Hathaway
  9. Dru Hill ~ Dru Hill
  10. What Time Is It? ~ The Time

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