A 1-lp Motown Greatest Hits

[sup_fan]

If you were given the job of creating a greatest hits/fav songs lp out of ALL of the motown catalog, what 12 songs would you select?


You Can't Hurry Love
Tracks of My Tears
Too Many Fish in the Sea
The Boss
I Want You
If You Really Love Me

I'm in a Different World
You're All I Need To get By
I Want You Back
Ain't No Mountain High Enough [[Diana)
Ain't to proud to beg
Help me make it through the night

[Fourtopsbiggestfan]

No time
my past just crossed my future
same- o same-o
if you don't want my love
just one last look
what you gonna do with me baby

where do i go from here
can't stop this feeling
my heart is calling you
ballad to the one i love
so far
stranded on the road of love

[lucky2012]

Side A:
You're A Wonderful One
Nowhere To Run
When I'm Gone
Take Me In Your Arms [[Rock Me A Little While)
Something About You
Don't Mess With Bill

Side B:
Love Is Like An Itching In My Heart
Function At The Junction
All I Need
The Love I Saw In You Was Just A Mirage
I Heard It Through The Grapevine [[Gladys Knight & the Pips)
Heaven Must Have Sent You [[Elgins)

[soulster]

If you were given the job of creating a greatest hits/fav songs lp out of ALL of the motown catalog, what 12 songs would you select?


Only 12 songs out of decades of the company's output? It is a 100% impossible task. Not only that, but it is a technical impossibility. Some songs will run longer than five minutes.

Next...

[sup_fan]

^ok so don't play along.

[arr&bee]

Hehe,i like this,ok-side a-money,please mr.postman,shop around,you're a wonderful one,contract on love,come and get these memories-side b-my guy,my girl,baby love,ooo baby baby,uptight alright,shotgun.

[sup_fan]

i'm already starting to assemble my Greatest Hits Vol 2 lp set ;)

[blkfrost]

This is interesting... I have already complied my favorites by decade for my Motown playlist. I have more than 12, but here is my first for the 1970s in play order

Touch - The Supremes
Just My Imagination - The Temptations
We've Come To Far Too End It Now - Smokey Robinson and the Miracles
Neither One Of Us - Gladys Knight and the Pips
Still Water [[Love) - The Four Tops
Reach Out, I'll Be There - Diana Ross
My Last Chance - Marvin Gaye
The Bells - The Originals
Silly Wasn't I - Valerie Simpson
Got To Be There - Michael Jackson
In And Out Of My Life - Martha Reeves and the Vandellas
Do You Love Me Just A Little, Honey - Supremes and Four Tops

[WaitingWatchingLookingForAChance]

Only 12 songs out of decades of the company's output? It is a 100% impossible task. Not only that, but it is a technical impossibility. Some songs will run longer than five minutes.

Next...

It can be done. Just do like Motown did in the 80's on some of those 2-on-1 CDs: butcher and hack the songs so they can all be crammed onto the disc!

Imagine the fun of people trying to figure out if they've lost their minds: hmmmm weren't these songs longer before? did I just imagine they were?

MOTOWN FUN!

[soulster]

It can be done. Just do like Motown did in the 80's on some of those 2-on-1 CDs: butcher and hack the songs so they can all be crammed onto the disc!

Imagine the fun of people trying to figure out if they've lost their minds: hmmmm weren't these songs longer before? did I just imagine they were?

MOTOWN FUN!

I would have to include over three decades of music. The thread asks for greatest hits and favorites. I'm not willing to offer anything more edited than an official single version. I will not compromise sound quality just to cram a lot of songs onto a single vinyl disk.

So, again, this is an impossible task!

[Motown Eddie]

Tough call but here it goes;

Side One-
1. "Shop Around"-The Miracles
2. "Please Mr. Postman"-The Marvelettes
3. "Heat Wave"-Martha & the Vandellas
4. "Where Did Our Love Go"-The Supremes
5. "My Guy"-Mary Wells
6. "My Girl"-The Temptations

Side Two-
1. "I Can't Help Myself [[Sugar Pie Honey Bunch)"-Four Tops
2. "The Tracks Of My Tears"-The Miracles
3. "Uptight [[Everything's Alright)"-Stevie Wonder
4. "Reach Out I'll Be There"-Four Tops
5. "You Keep Me Hanging On"-The Supremes
6. "I Heard It Through The Grapevine"-Marvin Gaye

[marybrewster]

^ok so don't play along.

Right? Lol.

[sup_fan]

Soulster acts like we really care - ok so you aren't willing to sit and think about a limited number of songs. life will go on :rolleyes:

and it's not like i'm mandating a format lolol. shift the rules up. it's just a forum

what would be your lp of missed/rare classics? best songs by obscure motown artists?

[Ngroove]

Kim Weston / The Contours, were not given many lp presentations, Contours with only "Do You Love Me", Kim Weston, only a couple lps: she was 1/2 of a Marvin Gaye duet album, 1/4 of a Marvin Gaye & his Girls album:

The Contours / Kim Weston - Greatest Hits

Side 1
1. Do You Love Me
2. Shake Sherry
3. Can You Do It
4. Can You Jerk Like Me
5. First I Look At The Purse
6. Just A Little Misunderstanding

Side 2
1. Love Me All The Way
2. Just Loving You
3. Looking For The Right Guy
4. I'm Still Loving You
5. Take Me In Your Arms [[Rock Me A Little While)
6. Helpless

[Sotosound]

I would have to include over three decades of music. The thread asks for greatest hits and favorites. I'm not willing to offer anything more edited than an official single version. I will not compromise sound quality just to cram a lot of songs onto a single vinyl disk.

So, again, this is an impossible task!
You’re no fun. �� Let’s pretend.

The early British Motown Chartbusters squeezed 16 tracks onto an LP quite well. There was a little compromise on bass but more so on the stereo pressings. The mono pressings came across loud and clear. As the 70s rolled in, however, tracks got longer and volume 8 had several horrible edits.

I’d squeeze in 16 and arrange for Motown Chartbusters Volume 3 to be re-released with the original mono mixes as opposed to the fold-downs that we got given. That album is a classic.

[gordy_hunk]

Here are my 12 - but I'd want the full LP versions, none of the edited stuff:

1. Maybe tomorrow – Jackson 5
2. No one there – Martha Reeves
3. This use to be the home of Johnnie Mae – Eddie Kendricks
4. Like a rolling stone – Undisputed Truth
5. Bill, when are you coming back – The Supremes
6. If I were your woman – Gladys Knight + The Pips
7. With you I’m born again – Billy Preston + Syreeta
8. That’s how heartaches are made – The Marvelettes
9. 1990 – The Temptations
10. Simple game – 4 Tops
11. Ma – Rare Earth
12. The night – Frankie Valli + The Four Seasons

[Sotosound]

Here are my 12 - but I'd want the full LP versions, none of the edited stuff:

1. Maybe tomorrow – Jackson 5
2. No one there – Martha Reeves
3. This use to be the home of Johnnie Mae – Eddie Kendricks
4. Like a rolling stone – Undisputed Truth
5. Bill, when are you coming back – The Supremes
6. If I were your woman – Gladys Knight + The Pips
7. With you I’m born again – Billy Preston + Syreeta
8. That’s how heartaches are made – The Marvelettes
9. 1990 – The Temptations
10. Simple game – 4 Tops
11. Ma – Rare Earth
12. The night – Frankie Valli + The Four Seasons

I have a great fondness for “No On There” and I love the UK single mix of “Simple Game”.

”The Night” is a classic track that UK Northern Soul fans brought to prominence but I’m still puzzled as to why it was otherwise overlooked by the rest of the world. Great track.

[gordy_hunk]

I have a great fondness for “No On There” and I love the UK single mix of “Simple Game”.

”The Night” is a classic track that UK Northern Soul fans brought to prominence but I’m still puzzled as to why it was otherwise overlooked by the rest of the world. Great track.

Martha recently toured, and she sang "No one there". It's the first time I've ever heard her sing it - and the music was light and simple, allowing her voice to really shine through. Friends who were with me didn't know the track, and they were stunned to silence.

[jobeterob]

Love Woke Me Up This Morning - Valerie Simpson
Where Did Our Love Go - Supremes
Smiling Faces Sonetimes - Undisputed Truth
Isn’t She Pretty - Temptations
Alternate You Keep Me Hangin On - Supremes
Sinner Man - Valerie Simpson
I’ll Be Doggone - Ross Supremes Temptations
Uptight - Stevie Wonder
My Baby Loves Me - Martha Vandellas
Alternate Love Is Like An Itching In My Heart - Supremes