100 Greatest Motown Hits - Really?

[mysterysinger]

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B008PR7XQY/ref=dm_att_alb5?ie=UTF8&qid=1390480455&sr=1-2-acs

Such a strange collection that includes Percy Sledge and Johnny Kidd and The Pirates [[well ok it's The Pirates we know and love). What a, not so, funny set!

[smark21]

Looks like a mix of public domain recordings and re-recorded songs by the residue of acts long after they left Motown.

[mysterysinger]

....with the addition of Marvin & Tammi, Kim Weston and Bobby Taylor. Those Four Tops numbers sound like re-recordings to the original backing tracks so who gets the royalties from this set?

[marybrewster]

Looks like you'll get what you pay for at 6.99E.

[paul_nixon]

Johnny Kid and The Pirates? Methinks NOT

[copley]

Johnny Kid and The Pirates? Methinks NOT

From DFTMC
Mind Over Matter [[I'm Gonna Make You Mine) [[Devora Brown) publ. Trianon

The Temptations; recorded Hitsville, completed 24-Sep-62 ; produced by Clarence Paul ; [lead - Eddie Kendricks]

29-Sep-62; 45 [[M): Mel o-dy M-105 A [artist shown as the Pirates]
Feb-86; LP [[M): Motown 5380 Never-Before-Released Masters From Motown's Brightest Stars - The 1960s
20-Sep-94; CD [[M): Motown 530 338 2 Emperors Of Soul
13-May-05; CD [[M): Hip-O Select B0004402-02 The Complete Motown Singles Vol. 2 1962 [artist shown as the Pirates]
23-Feb-07; CD [[M): Reader's Digest RDCD 5561-3 The Ultimate Motown Collection - The Early Years
07-Oct-11; CD [[M): Hip-O Select B0154942-02 50th Anniversary | The Singles Collection 1961-1971



The Gracenote CD database, and thus much of the Internet, insists that this group is actually white British novelty rockers Johnny Kidd and the Pirates, but that’s a bad mistake; these are the Temptations, under a stupid name, with Eddie Kendricks on lead.

[daviddesper]

Something else that does not add up......how can you get 100 full-length songs on just two CDs?

[roger]

....with the addition of Marvin & Tammi, Kim Weston and Bobby Taylor. Those Four Tops numbers sound like re-recordings to the original backing tracks so who gets the royalties from this set?

Yes .. the version of "Ain't No Mountain High Enough" in the sound clips sounds identical to the version released in 1967 by MARVIN GAYE & TAMMI TERRELL so how on earth they have managed to slip that into this set is beyond me. The same goes for the BOBBY TAYLOR tracks, though as they are less well known than ANMHE I can see how they might be able to slip under the radar as being "Out of Copyright".

Not sure how PERCY SLEDGE managed to appear on here, maybe the compilers had heard this one ...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6JKRNMGeWbQ
Roger

[copley]

Something else that does not add up......how can you get 100 full-length songs on just two CDs?

It's download only and obviously a bootleg.

[thomas96]

The Gracenote CD database, and thus much of the Internet, insists that this group is actually white British novelty rockers Johnny Kidd and the Pirates, but that’s a bad mistake; these are the Temptations, under a stupid name, with Eddie Kendricks on lead.

I had that record and never knew what it was [[I had my suspicions) until I read in Otis' book that it was a promotional plan by BG to turn them into stars as the Pirates. I couldn't believe it, I almost died laughing!