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The Complete Motown Singles, Vol. 7: 1967 | 
 enlarge | Artist: Various Artists
Label: Hip-O Select
Category: Music
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Avg. Customer Rating:  5 reviews
Sales Rank: 51119
Format: Box Set, Limited Edition
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 5
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.4
Dimensions (in): 8.4 x 7.1 x 0.7
UPC: 602517341906
EAN: 0602517341906
ASIN: B000SFYZBM
Release Date: July 31, 2007
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Disc 1
| • | Love's Gone Bad - Holland, Brian | | • | Mojo Hannah - Paul, Clarence | | • | Love Is Here and Now You're Gone - Holland, Brian | | • | There's No Stopping Us Now - Holland, Brian | | • | Pucker Up Buttercup - Fuqua, Harvey | | • | Anyway You Wannta - Fuqua, Gwen Gordy | | • | Chantilly Lace - Richardson, J.P. | | • | Your Love Is Amazing - Holland, Brian | | • | Till Johnny Comes - Robinson, William | | • | The Love I Saw in You Was Just a Mirage - Robinson, William | | • | Come Spy with Me - Robinson, William | | • | Jimmy Mack - Holland, Brian | | • | Third Finger, Left Hand - Holland, Brian | | • | Travlin' Man - Miller, Ronald | | • | Hey Love - Paul, Clarence | | • | Bernadette - Holland, Brian | | • | I Got a Feeling - Holland, Brian | | • | Bernadette - Holland, Brian | | • | Gonna Give Her All the Love I've Got - Whitfield, Norman | | • | World So Wide, Nowhere to Hide (From Your Heart) - Dean, James | | • | I Want to Go Back There Again - Clark, Chris | | • | I Love You - Gaye, Anna Gordy | | • | It's So Hard Being a Loser - Dean, James | | • | Your Love Grows More Precious Every Day - Davis, Hughey |
Disc 2
| • | Just Look What You've Done - Wilson, Frank [5] | | • | Starting the Hurt All Over Again - Ashford, Nickolas | | • | Here I Am Baby - Robinson, William | | • | My World Is Empty Without You - Holland, Brian | | • | Take Me in Your Arms and Love Me - Strong, Barrett | | • | Do You Love Me Just a Little, Honey - Bristol, Johnny | | • | The Happening - Holland, Brian | | • | All I Know About You - Holland, Brian | | • | Got to Have You Back - Hunter, Ivory Joe | | • | Just Ain't Enough Love - Holland, Brian | | • | There's a Ghost in My House - Holland, Brian | | • | Don't Fool Around - Taylor, R. Dean | | • | Festival Time - Bratton, Joanne Jac | | • | Joy Road - Askey, Gil | | • | I Wonder Why (Nobody Loves Me) - Walker, Robert | | • | I've Been Blessed - Fuqua, Harvey | | • | When You're Young and in Love - McCoy, Van | | • | The Day You Take One (You Have to Take the Other) - Robinson, William | | • | All I Need - Holland, Edward Jr. | | • | Sorry Is a Sorry Word - Hunter, Ivory Joe | | • | Ain't No Mountain High Enough - Ashford, Nickolas | | • | Give a Little Love - Fuqua, Harvey | | • | 7-Rooms of Gloom - Holland, Brian | | • | I'll Turn to Stone - Holland, Brian |
Disc 3
| • | Chained - Wilson, Frank [5] | | • | Don't Let It Happen to Us - Wilson, Frank | | • | Chained - Wilson, Frank [5] | | • | For All We Know - Lewis, Sam | | • | I Cross My Heart - Hunter, Ivory Joe | | • | I Was Made to Love Her - Cosby, Henry | | • | Hold Me - Broadnax, Luvel | | • | More Love - Robinson, William | | • | Swept for You Baby - Robinson, William | | • | It's Been a Long Long Time (A Long Time) - Fuqua, Harvey | | • | I Understand My Man - Holland, Brian | | • | Everybody Needs Love - Holland, Eddie | | • | Your Unchanging Love - Holland, Brian | | • | I'll Take Care of You - Holland, Brian | | • | You're My Everything - Whitfield, Norman | | • | I've Been Good to You - Robinson, Smokey | | • | Ain't That the Truth - Willis, Eddie | | • | Don't You Miss Me a Little Bit Baby - Whitfield, Norman | | • | That's the Way Love Is - Whitfield, Norman | | • | One Too Many Heartaches - Hunter, Ivory Joe |
Disc 4
| • | Reflections - Holland, Brian | | • | Going Down for the Third Time - Holland, Brian | | • | Love Bug Leave My Heart Alone - Morris, Richard | | • | One Way Out - Holland, Brian | | • | Steal Away Tonight - Paul, Clarence | | • | For Once in My Life - Miller, Ronald | | • | You're Made Me So Very Happy - Gordy, Berry | | • | I've Got to Find It - Wilson, Frank | | • | You're Made Me So Very Happy - Gordy, Berry | | • | Your Precious Love - Ashford, Nickolas | | • | Hold Me Oh My Darling - Fuqua, Harvey | | • | You Keep Running Away - Holland, Brian | | • | If You Don't Want My Love - Holland, Brian | | • | From Head to Toe - Robinson, Smokey | | • | The Beginning of the End - Johnson, Margaret | | • | Window Shopping - Taylor, R. Dean | | • | California Soul - Ashford, Nickolas | | • | I Got a Feeling - Holland, Brian | | • | You Got Me Hurtin' All Over - Davis, Hal | | • | I'm Wondering - Cosby, Henry | | • | Every Time I See You I Go Wild - Cosby, Henry | | • | I'm Wondering - Cosby, Henry | | • | (Loneliness Made Me Realize) It's You That I Need - Whitfield, Norman | | • | Don't Send Me Away - Robinson, William |
Disc 5
| • | I Heard It Through the Grapevine - Whitfield, Norman | | • | It's Time to Go Now - Whitfield, Norman | | • | I Heard It Through the Grapevine - Whitfield, Norman | | • | I Want My Baby Back - Kendricks, Eddie | | • | Gonna Keep on Tryin' Till I Win Your Love - Whitfield, Norman | | • | What a Good Man He Is - Robinson, William | | • | There Are Things - Fuqua, Harvey | | • | I Second That Emotion - Robinson, William | | • | You Must Be Love - Robinson, William | | • | In and out of Love - Holland, Brian | | • | I Guess I'll Always Love You - Holland, Brian | | • | Honey Chile - Morris, Richard | | • | Show Me the Way - Morris, Richard | | • | Come See About Me - Dozier, Lamont | | • | Sweet Soul - Fuqua, Harvey | | • | You Haven't Seen My Love - Nicholoff, Carey | | • | Happy Day - Hernandez, Danny | | • | Two Can Have a Party - Fuqua, Harvey | | • | If I Could Build My Whole World Around You - Fuqua, Harvey | | • | If This World Were Mine - Gaye, Marvin | | • | My Baby Must Be a Magician - Robinson, William | | • | I Need Someone - Dean, James | | • | I Wish It Would Rain - Whitfield, Norman | | • | I Truly, Truly Believe - Johnson, Margaret | | • | I Truly, Truly Believe - Johnson, Margaret | | • | You - Hunter, Ivory Joe | | • | At Last (I Found a Love) - Gaye, Marvin | | • | Change What You Can - Gaye, Marvin |
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Album Description
It's the newest installment in the critically acclaimed, continuing series of every Motown single of the Detroit era. With 120 Tracks on five compact disks, this box set chronicles a pivotal year for "The Sound Of Young America." The story of Motown in 1967 is all here, over five disks. Included are rare cuts, promo only singles, and several surprising alternative mixes, from Stevie Wonder's "Im wondering" to the temptations' B-side, "I Truly, Truly believe," with a forgotten alternative lead vocal.
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Berry Gordy, Jr.'s Genius October 5, 2008
Berry Gordy, Jr. and Motown were incredibly busy in the sixties. The enormous task of spinning so many plates at one time would be impossible today. From recruiting talent (singers, songwriters, musicians) to recording to all the legal paperwork involved in running a not-so-small business must have weighed heavy. Despite all of this, 1967 was another banner year for recorded output at Motown.
Besides the hits (Jimmy Mack, I Was Made To Love Her, Bernadette, Ain't No Mountain High Enough, I Wish It Would Rain) there are surprising number of non-hits here. All songs pass the strict Motown quality control, however. I was interested in the rare b-sides by Marvin Gaye, Stevie Wonder, The Temptations and Four Tops but found Jr. Walker & The Allstars to be equally interesting.
Through these boxed sets you can see how Motown succeeded: Release covers of other Motown artists to perpetuate the brand, change with the times, promote new artists, update older artists and offer a wide variety of music styles.
This set is a must have.
[DW]
Only a Northern Song August 8, 2008
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
As other reviews have stated, the music, packaging and concept of this set is flawless. But the track-by-track notation is starting to get really annoying starting with the 1965 volume. Wasn't there an American writer able to handle this? I say this because the writer CONSTANTLY is putting the songs into the perspective of the British "Northern Soul" movement. WHO CARES! To American readers/listeners, that means nothing. Even though I have a vague idea of what that means, I don't care. I want the songs put into the proper context of their impact on release on the public, the artists' careers, and Motown, not what some goon collectors thought 10 or 20 years later.
If this set was a British release, I'd understand it. But it is really annoying. There has to be something more substantial or interesting to a Four Tops B-side than it later "became a Northern Soul dance floor monster".
Box of Wonders April 26, 2008
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
Of this unique, amazingly ambitious multi-volume set, this is the third volume I've purchased, following Volume 2 (covering the 1962 singles) and Volume 4 (covering 1964). In 1962, Motown was The Little Independent Label That Could, trying to build upon its handful of big hits from the previous three years. In 1964, everything finally came together for the company and the "Motown Sound" came to maturity. By 1967, the feisty little label had become a commercial powerhouse, as the hit factory churned out one smash after another.
Except to a die-hard Motown fan, I would hesitate to recommend the 1962 or 1964 volumes, because both include lots of big misses among the gems. But I can unequivocally recommend the 1967 volume to anybody who cares about Motown, or `Sixties music in general. The hits speak for themselves: "Love Is Here and Now You're Gone," "Jimmy Mack," "Bernadette," "All I Need" "Ain't No Mountain High Enough," "7 Rooms of Gloom," "I Was Made to Love Her," "More Love," "You're My Everything," "Reflections" "Your Precious Love," "(Loneliness Made Me Realize) It's You That I Need," "I Second That Emotion," "Honey Chile," "If I Could Build My Whole World Around You" and the Gladys Knight and the Pips version of "I Heard It Through the Grapevine."
But those 1967 B-sides: wow! The past master of the B-side, Smokey Robinson, created a couple of memorable ones for The Miracles that year: the subdued "Swept for You Baby" and the lush "You Must Be Love." But he also created the kitschy-but-clever "Come Spy With Me," evoking for me a cultural moment when cinematic spies (both serious and campy) were all the rage. There's also Gladys Knight and the Pip's gentle and touching "It's Time to Go Now"; Gaye's splendid composition "If This World Were Mine"; Edwin Starr's version of Norman Whitfield's "Gonna Keep On Tryin' Till I Win Your Love"; Junior Walker's "Sweet Soul" (in which the sax master hits some impressive high notes); and The Temptation's gorgeous doo-wop tribute, the Robinson-penned "Don't Send Me Away" (with, for once, Otis Williams on lead). The best B-side of all, perhaps, is Martha Reeves & the Vandellas' "Show Me the Way" (flip side to "Honey Chile"), which is very nearly as good as her earlier hard-driving hits. (Martha's Sixties work, as opposed to the dated-sounding Supremes, seems to get better and better with age.)
This box is just full of goodies: the big, beautiful and very blonde Chris Clark ("Head to Toe"), Jimmy Ruffin ("Gonna Give Her All the Love I've Got"), the lovely Brenda Holloway (her original version of "You've Made Me So Very Happy"), the Isley Brothers (an uptempo version of "That's the Way Love Is"), The Spinners ("For All We Know" -- not The Carpenters' tune), The Contours (the memorably titled "It's So Hard Being a Loser"), The Marvelettes ("My Baby Must Be a Magician"), and on and on. Even the label's MOR artists, distinctly out of place among the soul performers, do very well: the songs by veteran Billy Eckstine and supper-club singer Barbara McNair are never less than pleasant, and one recording -- McNair's haunting take on The Supremes' "My World Is Empty Without You" -- is much more than that.
The artist who dominates this volume, however, is Marvin Gaye. In the previous year, he had sung at the Copacabana nightclub in New York for a live album the company chose not to release. The experience seemed to liberate him, however, for both as a duet partner (with the wonderful Tammi Terrell) and as a solo singer, he was terrific in 1967. The final disc ends with a triple triumph for Gaye: the minor hit "You," inaugurating his "tortured lover" phase; the exuberant gospel number "At Last (I Found a Love)" and (later replacing it as the B-side) the jazzy "Change What You Can," which seems to have been inspired by the words of St. Francis.
Finally, the liner notes by Bill Dahl and Keith Hughes -- despite the occasional bewildering inaccuracy -- are tremendously informative and offer some real surprises. For example, we discover that "Jimmy Mack" was actually a tribute, by Lamont Dozier, to the writer of the classic "He's So Fine," Ronnie Mack, who died young. We learn, to our astonishment, that Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell were not in the studio together when they recorded their first hit, "Ain't No Mountain High Enough" (Gaye dubbed his part over Tammi's solo performance). But it didn't matter because, according to Johnny Bristol, one of the song's producers, "Marvin could feel Tammi." And there's the occasional amusing anecdote: the songwriters Brian and Eddie Holland and Lamont Dozier all had friends named Bernadette, each of whom thought The Four Tops' classic was written about her.
It should be noted that there is nothing in this box even remotely resembling the revolutionary 1967 work of Jimi Hendrix (Are You Experienced), Pink Floyd (The Piper at the Gates of Dawn), The Velvet Underground (The Velvet Underground and Nico) or The Beatles (Sgt. Pepper). No surprise there: Motown always owed as much to the traditions of Broadway, Tin Pan Alley and The Brill Building as to those of contemporary rock and R&B. For example, at least ninety-five percent of the songs in Volume 7 are about romantic love, when most rock artists were moving on to other themes. But Motown's songwriting and producing craftsmanship -- and musicianship -- remain peerless after all these years.
I can't imagine anyone of any age possessing the slightest feeling for soul music who would listen to these five disks with anything less than awe at the depth and range of talent on display. The music of this era never ceases to astound.
Motown Magic from '67 December 4, 2007
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
1967. I was 13 and my parents had given me a transistor radio for Christmas. I can remember taking that radio with me everywhere I went, listening intently for the local radio station (CHED) to play the Supremes "Love Is Here And Now You're Gone", which eventually became my favourite Supremes single of all time. Fortunately, the song had gone "Top Ten" so it was frequently played. Unfortunately, other than the Supremes and the Temptations, the station didn't play a lot of Motown, but my father had also given me an amazing old tube-type radio which picked up signals from stations south of the border. Especially at night, I could get my "fix" of Motown and more. I have purchased all of the "Complete Motown Singles" volumes (1 -6), and I have to say this is an amazing collection. Hip-O-Select has done a great job! The songs are wonderfully annotated in a beautiful bound "booklet" which is modeled after an old 78rpm record collector's book (my father had lots of these!). Each volume includes a faithfully recreated copy of a popular Motown 45rpm single from that year. The notes and trivia about every song in the collection make for some fascinating reading (until this collection, I had no idea that Motown had actually dabbled in County music!). One of the highlights for me was hearing the mono version of the Supremes "My World Is Empty Without You" (on Volume 5) for the first time on CD. Volume 7 represents (for me) the first year that I actually began to appreciate and pursue an interest in the Motown genre. After that, I realized I had a lot of "catching up" to do, as the company had already been in production for 8 years. This collection is a must-have for anyone who is a musical history buff, and volume 7 represents one of the peak years for Motown. If you are an avid Motown collector or just someone who wants to recall musical memories of 1967, then this volume is highly recommended.
Still classic after all these years November 7, 2007
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
Think about it...as I type this review , this material is 40 years old. Still classic after all these years. 5 discs , 120 songs , 5 hours , 33 minutes and 24 seconds. Through volumes 1-7 we now have 962 selections on 37 discs topping 43 hours. Four more volumes to go. It will be disappointing when it comes to an end. But , we will have ALL the Motown singles from the heyday years of 1959-1972. I can only imagine what it was like. You can hear it in these discs. All the passion , all the excitement. They had to know they were making history. History that is as alive and vibrant today as it was 40 years ago. Bring on the rest of the series !!!
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