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Post by Cadeho on Dec 5, 2013 22:21:23 GMT -5
Got it! Can't wait to dive into it! Oh and is that a real 45? It can't be. I thought it would be fitting to announce eight years later, I got the final volume today! My Complete Motown Singles Series collection is complete! |
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Elbridge
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Elbridge "Al" Bryant
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Post by Elbridge on Dec 6, 2013 16:43:17 GMT -5
Got it! Can't wait to dive into it! Oh and is that a real 45? It can't be. I thought it would be fitting to announce eight years later, I got the final volume today! My Complete Motown Singles Series collection is complete! Hey! How does it sound? |
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Post by PeteGunn on Feb 16, 2014 1:56:57 GMT -5
Got it! Can't wait to dive into it! Oh and is that a real 45? It can't be. I thought it would be fitting to announce eight years later, I got the final volume today! My Complete Motown Singles Series collection is complete! Did you outlay all that money for the complete collection? Wow!!! I think one day, when I get the courage, I will drop the money, for at least 1964-1970. One thing you could do, give us excerpts from the liner notes for the Tempts 45s. I think we'd like to hear the backgrounds of the songs. Good job! |
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Post by Cadeho on Mar 13, 2014 1:00:41 GMT -5
Elbridge, I love it! I want the other years until Motown was sold! Think about it, 1973-1988 is a ton of stuff!
PeteGunn, I bought each volume as they were released. Most of them I got from motownselect.com until I noticed at times Amazon had them cheaper except the final volume. I had just turned 26 when I read this thread and got the final volume at 34... that offered enough time in between releases... especially the last two.
There are gems throughout the series. Motown sat on a lot of stuff and should have promoted more. I love the early period with its diverse musical genres and hearing how things changed. The peak years to me are 1964-1966 and are worth getting. Keep in mind though if you have not gotten 1966, it may cost you because it is sold out and people are raising the prices. The downloads are probably the better choice in that case.
The only dragging point in the series is the zillion versions of over promotion for Diana Ross' "Reach Out (I'll Be There." Some of Bobby Darin can be dry too... but over all, I loved hearing and reading about artists I had never heard. there are too many Tempts liner notes to transcribe and to scan them would mean a lot of bending of the packaging... some of the info on songs can be interesting while others, it can be a list of a bunch of people who did this and that from here to there to there and they helped out here on this track and... some tracks have mysteries for me revealed while others are like reading Toni Morrison (sorry if I picked an author you like... I can't understand her style).
The series opened me up to a lot of people and I have gotten their compilations as well with several more albums to get, whenever I have the money for a bunch of albums again. I keep my eye out for any new unreleased stuff. Right now seems to be a dry spell... there are a ton of albums I wish were rereleased.
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Post by PeteGunn on Mar 14, 2014 22:46:50 GMT -5
Diana Ross was/is a star. She and Gordy would tell you that and not understand why you don't understand that fact. A lot of her fans think she is one the greatest entertainers of all time, can't understand why Mary Wilson doesn't fall in line, that she discovered the Jackson 5 and that she was working on a cure for malaria.
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Post by PeteGunn on Mar 17, 2014 23:32:07 GMT -5
I'm still a 64-72 people, the Detroit years.And it's interesting to note the changes within the company. The leaving of a lot of people including HDH, Stevenson, etc. The change of the sound. The emergence of Whitfield, while Smokey juggles touring and producing.
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