What I mean by CORE COLLECTION is a release that contains something not found elsewhere. Therefore a completist collector must have all CORE COLLECTION releases.

I was listening to "FREE SOUL. the classic of MARVIN GAYE", released in Japan on January 20, 1999 as Motown POCT-1610, and noticed something I had never noticed before :
"You sure love to ball" has a count-in [[albeit less than 2 seconds).
By 1999, I don't think there were any altenates of that track released.

Has this count in appeared elsewhere since the FREE SOUL cd? I wonder...

Anyway, this is a great compilation cd to listen to; the way some songs from WHAT'S GOING ON segue into the other is interesting