Personal Mixes: What are your favorite "home mixes"?

I thought Sunday morning would be a good time for a light topic.

Since I really got into Motown [[particularly The Supremes) in high school about 15 years ago, I've liked making mixes, and re-mixing albums. I think we all have our ideal versions of albums where a favorite track was left off, or a different mix/vocal would have been preferred. I recently made my own mix of the 70's Supremes for a friend, and was reminded how much fun it is to choose tracks.

Anyway, I'd love to read about any re-mixes you've done of your favorite Motown albums. Here's mine for The Supremes 1975 album:

Side A:
1. He's My Man [[extended version)
2. Early Morning Love
3. Dance Fever
4. This Is Why I Believe In You
5. I Can Never Recover
Side B:
6. Seed of Love
7. Color My World Blue
8. Where Do I Go from Here
9. Bend a Little [[extended version)
10. Can We Love Again

I love every track MSC recorded for this album, and chose these songs to make it more of a dance album in line with what was being released in the mid-70's.

Thornton I had a mix I made that I appear to have deleted at some point because I can't find it. Anyway it was a mix of Marvin Gaye outtakes from the What's Going On and Lets Get It On sessions to create an album that I might would call Symphony Suite. It's a mix of vocal and instrumental cuts.

Head Title [[aka Distant Lover demo)
My Love Is Growing
I Love the Ground You Walk On [[Instrumental)
Symphony [[Undubbed version)
I'd Give My Life for You
Song #3 [[Instrumental)
I'm Gonna Give You Respect
Try It, You'll Like It
Cakes [[Instrumental)
You Are That Special One
We Can Make It Baby
Running From Love [[version 2-Instrumental)

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Originally Posted by Thornton

Here's mine for The Supremes 1975 album:

Side A:
1. He's My Man [[extended version)
2. Early Morning Love
3. Dance Fever
4. This Is Why I Believe In You
5. I Can Never Recover
Side B:
6. Seed of Love
7. Color My World Blue
8. Where Do I Go from Here
9. Bend a Little [[extended version)
10. Can We Love Again

I love every track MSC recorded for this album, and chose these songs to make it more of a dance album in line with what was being released in the mid-70's.

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Good lineup. Only one I would remove for sure is "This Is Why I Believe In You". Never cared for it. Glad to see you include "Seed of Love". I can't imagine the silly reason they came up with to leave this song off the final album.

I have one for Diana Ross' Last Time I Saw Him also.

Last Time I Saw Him
Sleepin
When Will I Come Home to You
I Heard a Love Song
Stone Liberty
Behind Closed Doors
I'll Be Here When You Get Home
Why Play Games
Get It All Together
Let Me Be the One

I know some fans are very critical of the original album. I think it was decent but admit most of the tracks are extremely weak. And including "Turn Around" was the dumbest decision of all.

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Originally Posted by RanRan79

Good lineup. Only one I would remove for sure is "This Is Why I Believe In You". Never cared for it. Glad to see you include "Seed of Love". I can't imagine the silly reason they came up with to leave this song off the final album.

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Thanks! "Seed of Love" has really grown on me, and it wonderfully showcases Cindy's voice. "This Is Why I Believe In You" really doesn't make sense in terms of lyrics, but I love the beat, and the first time I ever saw an MSC clip was them performing this song on Soul Train, so I have a soft spot for it.

Really cool to see other mixes by other artists. Thanks for sharing!

I loved "Seed of Love" from the first moment I heard it. I think it's a great showcase of Mary's voice too. I would have to rank it high on my list of favorite Supremes background vocals. I also think it's a great showcase for Scherrie. She so often hits you full blast with her instrument that it's a nice change up to hear her hold back and still give a stellar performance.