The Icon 2 series

[daviddesper]

These threads about buying Motown CDs inspires this question. Just a few months ago in a record store [[yes I actually found a real STORE) I came across two products that I had never even heard of, much less actually seen. One was by the Temptations and the other by Marvin Gaye.

They were entitled Icon 2 and they each contained two CDs. I was of course familiar with the regular single-disc Icon series because a whole lot of artists released those, both Motown and non Motown, but I had never seen any of these Icon 2 CDs.

So how common were those and were they a Motown only item? Who else had one released?

[marybrewster]

I believe they came out in 2010 and there were 4 titles:

Marvin Gaye
The Temptations
Jackson 5
MOTOWN CLASSICS

[mysterysinger]

There were a few different ICON series which seem to be different from each other [[and which were part of larger series which weren't all Motown).

As you describe an ICON 2 2 disc set for Marvin, I'm assuming it's this one:
https://www.discogs.com/release/2559...in-Gaye-Icon-2


There's another set of 2 disc versions of which there seem to be 3 listed on Discogs for Motown artists [[but were probably more) as European releases :

Marvin Gaye [[2004)
https://www.discogs.com/release/6403...vin-Gaye-Icons

Temptations [[2009)
https://www.discogs.com/release/1829...ptations-Icons

Diana Ross & The Supremes [[2005)
https://www.discogs.com/release/1117...Supremes-Icons

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But as stated there are other types of ICON CDs [[mostly single disc) - take a look here at just some of them
- https://www.discogs.com/search/?q=ic...ype=all&page=1