Motown yesteryear.

[mowsville]

Hi all...does anyone here know of any differences between the re-issue Yesteryear singles...i.e longer versions or shorter versions and different takes etc...I know of Stoned Love being the longer version with the spoken intro.

[Sotosound]

Hi all...does anyone here know of any differences between the re-issue Yesteryear singles...i.e longer versions or shorter versions and different takes etc...I know of Stoned Love being the longer version with the spoken intro.

The Duplicate Master number can be useful. Some Yesteryear singles include the original DM whereas others appear to be recuts.

I have a few Yesteryear singles and, to my ears, they're mainly original single mixes. However, "Loving You Is Sweeter Than Ever" by Four Tops is a fold-down and "You Can't Hurry Love" by The Supremes has a bad electrical hum on it.

Pressing quality is up to normal Motown standards, i.e. very mixed.

[psychedelic jacques]

On Stevie Wonder's Yesteryear "I call it pretty music", I got a copy recently which played part 2 on both sides [[the slow bluesy, virtually instrumental take), not the uptempo part 1 with first line of "i was sitting in my classroom the other day" - and it was in stereo. I then asked another seller on ebay to check their copy before I purchased it, and it was apparently the same.

Looks like a mass mispress - I therefore don't know if there are copies which play parts 1 & 2 as they should, but even if they do, I'm guessing they may be in stereo.

[144man]

If I'm right, Bobby Darin's Yesteryear single of "Moritat [Mack the Knife]" is unique in that it hadn't previously been issued as a single on any other Motown label.