Ace Records are delighted to announce “It Moves Me - The Complete Eddie Holland Recordings 1958-1964”, which is scheduled for release in January. This is a two-CD set [[the first such in Ace’s specially-licensed Motown series), and, as the title states, it contains the complete recordings up to 1964 of the man who went on to become a member of the most successful songwriting team of the 1960s after Lennon and McCartney – Holland, Dozier and Holland.
Following an extensive trawl of the Vaults, we’ve included everything that we’ve been able to find that Eddie Holland recorded for Mercury, United Artists, Motown – and the tiny Kudo label, where Eddie appeared under his brother Brian’s name on a commercial for Cadillac Club “Nature Boy” wine. As well as all the released material and recordings which didn’t pass the Motown Quality Control auditions, we’ve included home recordings, alternate versions, and studio demos for artists such as Kim Weston and the Four Tops.
The set contains 55 tracks; 30 of them have never till now appeared [[legitimately) on CD, and 18 have never been released in any form before, and are known only to fans still cherishing their hissy, stretched collectors’ tapes from the 1980s. And even those folk have some surprises coming, we hope.
The story of Eddie’s recording career is narrated in the booklet by the man himself, in an exclusive interview with Ace Records for this collection. And a few of his wry comments are included in the Track Notes, which, as is usual with Ace/Motown releases, provide an insight into every track in the set. The booklet also contains rare pictures, snippets from record magazines of the era and a huge number of label scans, including one of a commercial copy of the rarer-than-rare Motown 1026.
Enormous thanks are due to Mr Harry Weinger of Universal Music, whose idea the project was, and who has helped us through innumerable “sticky patches” along the road to release. And thanks are due also to other readers of this Board who supplied us with memories, pictures, and – in a very few cases – their rare records, where a tape source could not be found.
Watch this space for announcements of more Ace/Motown releases in the not too distant future!
And now, the track list:
Disc 1 – The Singles
1. LITTLE MISS RUBY Mercury 71290 [[1958)
2. YOU [[YOU YOU YOU YOU) Mercury 71290 [[1958)
3. [[WHERE’S THE JOY?) IN NATURE BOY Kudo 667 [[1958)
4. SHOCK Kudo 667 [[1958)
5. MERRY-GO-ROUND Tamla 102 [[1959)
6. IT MOVES ME Tamla 102 [[1959)
7. BECAUSE I LOVE HER United Artists 191 [[1959)
8. EVERYBODY'S GOING United Artists 191 [[1959)
9. MAGIC MIRROR United Artists 207 [[1960)
10. WILL YOU LOVE ME United Artists 207 [[1960)
11. WHY DO YOU WANT TO LET ME GO United Artists 280 [[1961)
12. THE LAST LAUGH United Artists 280 [[1961)
13. JAMIE Motown 1021 [[1961)
14. TAKE A CHANCE ON ME Motown 1021 [[1961)
15. YOU DESERVE WHAT YOU GOT Motown 1026 [[1962)
16. LAST NIGHT I HAD A VISION Motown 1026 [[1962)
17. IF CLEOPATRA TOOK A CHANCE Motown 1030 [[1962)
18. WHAT ABOUT ME Motown 1030 [[1962)
19. IF IT'S LOVE [[IT'S ALRIGHT) Motown 1031 [[1962)
20. IT'S NOT TOO LATE Motown 1031 [[1962)
21. DARLING, I HUM OUR SONG Motown 1036 [[1963)
22. JUST A FEW MORE DAYS Motown 1036 [[1963)
23. BABY SHAKE Motown 1043 [[1963)
24. BRENDA Motown 1043 [[1963)
25. I'M ON THE OUTSIDE LOOKING IN Motown 1049 [[1963)
26. I COULDN'T CRY IF I WANTED TO Motown 1049 [[1963)
27. LEAVING HERE Motown 1052 [[1963)
28. JUST AIN'T ENOUGH LOVE Motown 1058 [[1964)
29. CANDY TO ME Motown 1063 [[1964)
30. IF YOU DON'T WANT MY LOVE Motown 1063 [[1964)
Disc 2 – Rare And Unreleased
1. ACTION SPEAKS LOUDER THAN WORDS Previously unissued [[2012)
2. BASHFUL KIND Previously unissued [[2012)
3. RAIN AND THUNDER Previously unissued [[2012)
4. HAPPY DAYS Previously unissued [[2012)
5. I'M SO GLAD I LEARNED TO DO THE CHA-CHA Previously unissued [[2012)
6. TRUE LOVE WILL GO A MIGHTY LONG WAY Motown LP MT604 [[1962)
7. GOTTA HAVE YOUR LOVE Motown LP MT604 [[1962)
8. A LITTLE BIT OF LOVIN' Motown LP MT604 [[1962)
9. LOVE IS WHAT YOU MAKE IT Previously unissued [[2012)
10. DAY DREAMER Previously unissued [[2012)
11. SO GREAT IS MY LOVE Previously unissued [[2012)
12. TWIN BROTHER [Version 1] Previously unissued [[2012)
13. TWIN BROTHER [Version 2] Motown CD 882 4009 [[2010)
14. WELCOME BACK Previously unissued [[2012)
15. [[LONELINESS MADE ME REALIZE) IT'S YOU THAT I NEED Motown CD B0003619-02 [[2005)
16. I'M GRATEFUL Previously unissued [[2012)
17. HEART BROKEN, HEART BREAKER [[AND THE CLOCK) Previously unissued [[2012)
18. YOU'RE SWEETER AS THE DAYS GO BY Previously unissued [[2012)
19. IT'S BEST TO BE SURE Previously unissued [[2012)
20. HAPPY GO LUCKY Previously unissued [[2012)
21. TOO LATE TO CRY Previously unissued [[2012)
22. PRETTY LITTLE ANGEL FACE Previously unissued [[2012)
23. TAKE ME IN YOUR ARMS [[ROCK ME A LITTLE WHILE) Motown CD 982 9297 2 [[2005)
24. I LIKE EVERYTHING ABOUT YOU Previously unissued [[2012)
25. JAMIE [Stereo Version] Motown LP MS614 [[1966)
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