The Essential Collection

The Essential Collection Artist: Tammi Terrell
Label: Polygram Int'l
Category: Music


Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
Format: Import
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1


UPC: 731454449120
EAN: 0731454449120
ASIN: B00005AVWI


Release Date: 2001-07-12

The Essential Collection


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Tracks:

  1. I Can't Believe You Love Me
  2. That's What Boys Are Made For
  3. Come On And See Me
  4. What A Good Man He Is
  5. Tears At The End Of A Love Affair
  6. This Old Heart Of Mine (Is Weak For You)
  7. He's The One I Love
  8. Can't Stop Now (Love Is Calling)
  9. Just Too Much To Hope For
  10. Hold Me Oh My Darling
  11. I Can't Go On Without You
  12. Baby Don't You Worry
  13. There Are Things
  14. Two Can Have A Party (Solo Version)
  15. Lone Lonely Town
  16. Slow Down
  17. I Gotta Find A Way To Get You Back
  18. Ain't No Mountain High Enough

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Album Description

UK budget-price compilation for the late Motown legend, best known for her classic duets with Marvin Gaye (one duet is included here). 18 tracks including her entire 1968 album, 'Irresistible' along with singles, B-sides & rarities. 2001 release.

Album Details

Terrell 's distinctive voice was silenced all too quickly in her short life. this disc incorporates her only solo album 'Irresistable', which has been out of print for many years. Includes her solo hits 'I Can't Believe You Love Me', 'Come on and See Me' and her take on the Isley's 'This Old Heart of Mine'. 'Ain't No Mountain High Enough' is the only duet with Marvin Gaye included here, as the spotlight of this disc is on Terrell.

Customer Reviews:

1 out of 5 stars ok.......2006-08-20

It had the one song I was looking for and I was thrilled to find it! The other songs didn't thrill me!!

4 out of 5 stars Under-appreciated, gone but never forgotten.......2006-01-30

Tammi Terrell, Kim Weston, Chris Clark and The Velvelettes were all Motown artists who were more talented than they were lucky. Thanks to Amazon and UK spectrum the talents of these seemingly forgotten artists can now be appreciated once again - this time on cd.

Of course Tammi Terrell will always be remembered for her duets with Marvin Gaye. In referring to her as forgotten I am thinking of her solo work, recorded at Motown between 1965 and 1968. I vividly recall taking the bus and subway downtown to buy my soul singles during the mid sixties. There were two relatively large stores (by the limited standards of those days - no music "megastores" existed!) that stocked Motown, Atlantic and Stax-Volt. Often the stores would have to place special orders for me. Listening again, after all these years, to I Can't Believe You Love Me and Come On And See Me, I am bewildered, just as I was forty years ago, that they hardly made a dent in the charts.

This cd contains the two aforementioned singles along with sixteen other songs, several previously unreleased. The sound, instrumentation, lyrics and vocals are, generally speaking, reminiscent of Motown sound of 1960-65 than 66-68. Perhaps this explains Tammi Terrell's relative lack of singles success.

4 out of 5 stars First collection of solo recordings.......2005-03-28

Although Thomasina Montgomery, better known as Tammi Terrell, was only 20 when Berry Gordy signed her to Motown in 1965, she had already been recording singles for five years at Scepter/Wand under the aegis of James Brown. At Motown She made one solo album, called Irresistible, and three singles, but went on to achieve more notable success in a musical partnership with Marvin Gaye, producing several hit singles and a couple of albums.
Tragically she died on 16 March 1970 of a brain tumour, having collapsed onstage in Virginia into Marvin Gaye's arms on 14 October 1968.
Thirty years later this first collection of solo recordings shows the extent of our loss. The entire Irresistible album is included, mostly produced by Johnny Bristol and Harvey Fuqua, together with the complete singles, both sides, and some rare and previously unreleased tracks of no lesser quality. Two well known songs are This Old Heart Of Mine (Is Weak For You), recorded a year earlier by the Isley Brothers, and an early version of I Gotta Find A Way (To Get You Back), later recorded by the Temptations (her boyfriend was their lead singer David Ruffin). The album closes with her first single with Marvin Gaye, the transcendental Ain't No Mountain High Enough.
Not included are her solo versions of material recorded with Marvin Gaye, which have found a home as bonus tracks on the compilation The Complete Duets

4 out of 5 stars "2nd-division" Motown surpasses most others' masterpieces.......2005-03-25

In Elizabethan London, such was the atmosphere's creative charge, even the less distinguished poets could be pretty amazing. So with the pressure-cooker environment of Motown's golden era: it's disconcerting to realize that these mid-1960s tracks would've been considered by their creators to have been second-division repertoire, not to be spoken of in the same breath as Martha Reeves's or Gladys Knight's output, let alone Diana Ross's. Sure enough, the two greatest Motown songwriting teams - Ashford-Simpson and Holland-Dozier-Holland - are sparsely represented on this issue. When a Holland or a Smokey Robinson appears suddenly in the songwriting credits, extra sparks are struck.

Still, the bargain-priced ESSENTIAL COLLECTION's sample of "ordinary" Motown music-making is mostly delightful, and pays Miss Terrell long-overdue homage. Yes, a few clinkers mar proceedings here, notably THERE ARE THINGS, in which an inherently vapid effort is worsened by a deranged obbligato from what sounds like a bouzouki (!?!?). But much of the rest bestrides the decades with frenetic assurance. Except whilst duetting with Marvin Gaye - and not always then - TT appears to have eschewed slow speeds, even when songs enjoy [sic] such lachrymose titles as TEARS AT THE END OF A LOVE AFFAIR.

Why I CAN'T BELIEVE YOU LOVE ME, I CAN'T GO ON WITHOUT YOU, JUST TOO MUCH TO HOPE FOR, and in particular the obsessively memorable COME UP AND SEE ME had such problems leaving an impact on the charts in both America and England is uncertain. Some have called Miss T's material unduly conservative for mid-1960s tastes. I'd have thought this material suffered from the exact opposite problem; by its explosive vitality it must've shocked Eisenhower's spiritual heirs in a way that the ill-fated Mary Wells, for instance, couldn't have done. (LONE LONELY TOWN is an honorable harmonic progenitor to the Bruce Springsteen / Natalie Cole 1988 hit PINK CADILLAC.)

Though the tracks rescued from the vaults certainly sound their age in terms of hi-fi, most other songs benefit from skilled CD remastering, admirable in its sonic simplicity - drums and percussion on the right, keyboards on the left, punchy brass approximately 15 degrees right of center - and should make us marvel at how we put up for ages with Motown's scratch-prone vinyl. (Or worse, its hissy cassettes, which made all but the noisiest passages sound like a short-wave broadcast from western Sumatra at the tsunami's height.)

As CD booklet-note writer Paul Nixon comments, a particular preciousness marks the legacy of those musicians who died far too young. The current decrepitude of Diana Ross - we won't even discuss Michael Jackson - shows that dying young is by no means a musician's worst possible fate; meanwhile, R.I.P. Thomasina Montgomery (her real name).

5 out of 5 stars gone way too soon.......2004-09-26

what a Prize Talent Tammi Terrell was. you are so blown away by all the Great duets with Marvin Gaye that it's often overlooked what a Rock Solid Career She had going before Hooking with Marvin on those Classic Duets. her Vocal range just had so much spark&soul."there are things","Come&see me" are some of the tight cuts. Musicianship&Arrangements truly compliment Her range.

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