1.Where Did Our Love Go
2.Baby Love
3.Come See About Me
4.Stop ! In The Name Of Love
5.Back In My Arms Again
6.You Can’t Hurry Love
7.You Keep Me Hangin’ On
8.Love Is Here And Now You’re Gone
9.The Happening
10.Reflections
11.Love Child
12.I’m Gonna Make You Love Me
13.Someday We’ll Be Together
14.Stoned Love
15. Ain’t No Mountain High Enough
16.I’m Still Waiting
17.Touch Me In The Morning
18.Theme From Mahogany
19.Love Hangover
20.Upside Down
21.I’m Coming Out
22.Endless Love
23.Chain Reaction
24. You Keep Me Hangin’ On ( Almighty Remix )
This World’s most successful girl group,
Diane Earle (aka Diana Ross ) Mary Wilson and Florence Ballard turn up on
The No.1s. It’s a popular theme at the moment: The Beatles and Elvis
got the treatment – now it’s Tamla Motown’s biggest stars.
The chart-topping Soul trio’s greatest UK moments, as they roll back the years,
crammed into 24 tracks. Bursting at the seams with out-and-out pop classics,
it’s a mouth-watering nostalgia trip from the halcyon days of Motown. Berry
Gordy’s objective was to smoothen – up the rawer Stax / Verve interpretation of
the genre, by employing songwriters like Holland , Dozier and Holland, Gamble
and Huff, and Ashford and Simpson.
They blazed a trail both here and the States, but the CD packshot doesn’t
tell the whole story. Two other singers who contributed to their overall
success: Cindy Birdsong replaced Ballard in the late 60’s, then Jean Terrell
replaced Ross in 1970. This final line-up ran out of steam in 1974. Ross had
gone before Stoned Love, then she amassing world-wide radio-friendly hits,
singing on at least one hit every year for a record 32 years (’64-’96).
All permutations are explored, but it’s probably not a definitive. You’ll know
just about every song off by heart – the smoochers – I’m Still Waiting, I’m
Gonna Make You Love Me (with The Temptaions) and the groovers – Where Did
Our Love Go, Stoned Love, Stop! In The Name Of Love et al.
Bonus tracks include Chain Reaction and a bang up-to-date storming club
Almighty Remix of You Keep Me Hanging On. Just the job for parties:
Check out the Funk Brothers on swinging instruments - Hitsville USA at its
best.
As of April 2009, Blu-rays and DVDs reviewed by the editor are watched on a Panasonic TH-37PX80B
37" Plasma TV with a Sony BDP-1500 Blu-ray player and played through a Yamaha DSP-AX820 amplifier.
PC games reviewed by the editor are on:
Since Jan 2011: Intel Quad Core Dell XPS 8100, i7 CPU 860 @ 2.80Ghz, 8Gb RAM, nVidia GeForce GTS 240, Windows 7
Since Nov 2005: Intel Pentium D 830 3.0Ghz, 1Gb RAM, 128Mb nVidia GeForce 6700XL, Windows XP
Since Aug 2003: Intel Pentium 4 2.66Ghz, 512Mb RAM, 128Mb GeForce4 MX440 graphics, Windows XP
Since May 2003: Intel Pentium 4 2.6Ghz, 512Mb RAM, 128Mb ATI Radeon 9600TX graphics, Windows XP
Since Jun 2002: Intel Pentium III 600Mhz, 384Mb RAM, Windows 98 SE, 64Mb ATI Radeon 8500LE
Since May 2000: Intel Pentium III 600Mhz, 384Mb RAM, Windows 98 SE, Voodoo 3 3000 AGP
