This Is Northern Soul - The Motown Sound Volume 1
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Track List
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CD 1
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01. Brenda Holloway / Think It Over (Before You Break My Heart) A.K.A Reconsider 03:00
02. Frank Wilson / Do I Love You (Indeed I Do) 02:35
03. Marvin Gaye / This Love Starved Heart Of Mine (It's Killing Me) 02:44
04. Linda Griner / Goodbye Cruel World 02:29
05. The Monitors / Share A Little Love With Me (Somebody) 02:25
06. The Temptations / Forever In My Heart A.K.A Come On Back To Me Baby 02:50
07. Kim Weston / I'm Still Loving You 02:49
08. The Supremes / He's All I Got 02:40
09. Gladys Knight And The Pips / Just Walk In My Shoes 02:29
10. Frances Nero / Keep On Lovin' Me 02:29
11. The Monitors / Crying In The Night 03:14
12. Kim Weston / You Hit Me (Where It Hurt Me) 02:53
13. Andantes / (Like A) Nightmare 02:42
14. Kim Weston / A Thrill A Moment 03:02
15. The Marvellettes / I'll Keep Holding On 02:28
16. The Temptations / Truly Yours 03:10
17. Brenda Holloway / When I'm Gone 02:09
18. The Contours / Just A Little Misunderstanding 02:45
19. Gladys Knight / No One Could Love You More 03:16
20. Virgil Henry / You Ain't Saying Nothing New 02:53
21. The Originals / Goodnight Irene 02:51
22. The Temptations / I Gotta Find A Way (To Get You Back) 03:02
23. Spinners / What More Could A Boy Ask For 03:15
24. Gladys Knight / It's Too Late For You And Me A.K.A It's Never Too Late 02:51
CD 2
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01. Originals / Suspicion 03:03
02. Marvelettes / Your Love Can't Save Me 02:38
03. Eddie Holland / Just Ain't Enough Love 02:28
04. Velvelettes / Lonely,Lonely Girl Am I 02:14
05. Brenda Holloway / Lonely Boy 02:47
06. Shorty Long / Baby Come Home To Me 02:25
07. Jimmy Ruffin / I Gotta Let You Go 02:30
08. Marvin Gaye / When I Feel The Need 03:16
09. Patrice Holloway / For The Love Of Mike 02:36
10. Contours / Baby Hit And Run 03:03
11. Junior Walker / Tune Up 03:19
12. Edwin Starr / My Weakness Is You 02:36
13. Martha & the Vandellas / One Way Out 02:29
14. Junior Walker / I Ain't Goin' Nowhere 03:34
15. Isley Brothers / Tell Me It's Just A Rumour, Baby 02:54
16. Tammi Terrell / Two Can Have A Party 02:20
17. Carolyn Crawford / My Smile Is Just A Frown (Turned Upside Down) 03:02
18. Bobby Taylor / Oh, I've Been Blessed 02:48
19. Spinners / I'll Always Love You 02:48
20. Velvelettes / These Things Will Keep Me Loving You 02:42
21. Tammi Terrell / This Old Heart Of Mine (Is Weak For You) 02:29
22. Velvelettes / A Bird In The Hand (Is Worth Two In The Bush) 03:02
23. Spinners / Sweet Thing 02:43
24. Four Tops / Lonely Lover 02:49
Description
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This attractively priced 2CD replaces two separately issued CDs that appeared on the Débutante label in 1997 and
1998. The title of this reissue is slightly confusing as the original releases were called This Is Northern Soul Volumes
One and Two.
They were much heralded at the time as several of the items had never been officially released before, but were well
known from the clubs, where scratchy acetates and treasured bootlegs had been played to Northern Soul fans. While
the sound quality was obviously better on the CD releases, and the general availability much welcomed, some of the
tracks had clearly been transferred from vinyl pressings and some of them were in reprocessed fake stereo.
For this reissue on the Motown label, through the Universal Music Group, only the original Detroit analogue masters
have been used for the digital remastering. Reprocessed stereo has been quite rightly eliminated and there is
thankfully no vinyl surface noise, representing a significant improvement for most of the tracks. The Temptations'
previously unreleased Forever In My Heart was included in the speeded-up master used in the clubs before and is
now restored to the proper speed, as found on their Lost And Found CD, and The Andantes' (Like A) Nightmare,
which had surfaced briefly as a V.I.P. single in 1964, is ten second longer than before (but check out the extended
stereo remix on The Motown Box).
Carolyn Crawford's lovely single, written and produced by Smokey Robinson, also gains a couple of seconds and is
now cleaner sounding. Frank Wilson's Do I Love You (Indeed Do) was in a great alternative stereo mix with a slightly
different vocal to the familiar single, and remains so on this.
Mostly, however, the remastering and cleaning up has left the tracks slightly shorter than before. Brenda Holloway's
previously unreleased Lonely Boy had been allowed to run on until only the funky bass line was left in the mix - now it
fades a full ten seconds earlier. Her other two tracks Think It Over and When I'm Gone both still appear in mono mixes
in preference to the stereo versions on the subsequently released Motown Anthology set; this is also the case with
the three Kim Weston tracks.
Conversely, the Velvelettes' Lonely Lonely Girl Am I and Bird In The Hand are in stereo mixes that do not appear on
their Motown Anthology double CD. The Detroit Spinners' What More Could A Boy Ask For now clocks in at 2.29
whereas before it was 3.08. The Isley Brothers' Tell Me It's Just A Rumour Baby, recorded in 1966, is now a mono mix
lasting 3.08 whereas before it was in stereo and of 2.50 duration.
The Marvelettes' classic I'll Keep Holding On, with a lead vocal from the great Wanda Rogers, is also the well-known
original mono mix, though a stereo version turned up on The Millennium Collection. The Gladys Knight track No One
Could Love You More dates from 1967-68, but was extracted from her 1971 album Standing Ovation for a UK B-side a
couple of years later. Incidentally, the version of Just Walk In My Shoes is the 2.46 mix found on the British mono
version of the LP Everybody Needs Love in 1968, some twenty seconds longer than elsewhere. She can sing just
about anybody under the table and all her three tracks are wonderful. Junior Walker's I Ain't Going Nowhere was
another popular UK B-side. The oldest recording in the collection is Linda Griner's Goodbye Cruel Love, recorded in
June 1962 and a single for Motown in 1963.
Virgil Henry's You Ain't Sayin' Nothing New may be the most recent, but is a bit of an oddity, having been originally
released for Jerry Ross's Colossus label as a flipside (Colossus 115), and the same single coupling appeared on
Tamla 54212F in 1971, possibly remixed, while Jerry Ross was briefly Berry Gordy's New York A&R man. Some
collectors believe it to have been recorded in New York with local musicians as early as 1966 and this is the
publication date given here, though it sounds more recent.
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