So I picked up this 3 disc set last time I went shopping cause the price was incredible, but would you say this has most of their definitive songs on it?

I've really been wanting to hear more of their music since hearing a mixtape with a couple songs from them on it that I didn't recognize


Here's what I got...

http://www.amazon.com/Pla...B0016CP1RI

here's the tracklist...

1 When the Lovelight Starts Shining Through His Eyes 3:02

2 A Breath Taking Guy 2:23

3 Where Did Our Love Go 2:33

4 Baby Love 2:38

5 Ask Any Girl 3:01

6 Come See About Me 2:44

7 Stop! In the Name of Love 2:54

8 Back in My Arms Again 2:55

9 Nothing But Heartaches 2:57

10 Beach Ball 2:48

11 Ain't That Good News 2:35

12 What a Wonderful World 2:45

13 I Hear a Symphony 2:38

14 (2) My World Is Empty Without You 2:33

15 (2) Everything Is Good About You 3:43

16 (2) Love Is Like an Itching in My Heart 3:20

17 (2) You Can't Hurry Love 3:00

18 (2) Take Me Where You Go 2:40

19 (2) You Keep Me Hangin' On 2:45

20 (2) This Old Heart of Mine (Is Weak for You) 2:30

21 (2) Love Is Here and Now You're Gone 2:48

22 (2) Going Down for the Third Time 2:35

23 (2) The Happening 2:50

24 (2) All I Know About You 2:09

25 (2) Reflections 2:52

26 (2) In and out of Love 2:41

27 (2) I Guess I'll Always Love You 2:38

28 (3) Forever Came Today 3:14

29 (3) Some Things You Never Get Used To 2:25

30 (3) You've Been So Wonderful to Me 3:19

31 (3) Love Child 2:56

32 (3) Honey Bee 2:29

33 (3) I'm Gonna Make You Love Me 3:08

34 (3) I'm Living in Shame 3:00

35 (3) I'll Try Something New 2:22

36 (3) The Composer 3:01

37 (3) How Long Has That Evening Train Been Gone 2:47

38 (3) No Matter What Sign You Are 2:51

39 (3) Can't Take My Eyes off You 3:14

40 (3) Someday We'll Be Together

thekidsgirl said:

Any compilation is good, you hardly see '60s studio albums by any Motown act at any store but they always have a compilation or two on them though so this looks juicy since it's got more of their post-Flo work besides "Love Child" and "Someday We'll Be Together".
[Edited 6/9/09 14:38pm]

ahh, good! about how many albums do they have?

thekidsgirl said:

Shit, lemme see:

1962: "Meet the Supremes" (pre-hit days)
1964: "Where Did Our Love Go"
1964: "Little Bit of Liverpool"
1965: "More Hits by the Supremes" (studio album)
1965: "The Supremes Sing Country, Western & Pop"
1965: "We Remember Sam Cooke"
1965: "Merry Christmas"
1965: "Live at the Copa"
1965: "I Hear a Symphony"
1966: "The Supremes 'A Go-Go"
1967: "The Supremes Sing Rodgers-Hart"
1967: "The Supremes Sing Holland-Dozier-Holland"
1967: "Reflections"
1968: "Diana Ross & The Supremes Sing Funny Girl"
1968: "Diana Ross & The Supremes Join the Temptations"
1968: "Love Child"
1968: "TCB" (live album/TV soundtrack w/the Temptations)
1969: "Cream of the Crop"
1969: "Together" (w/The Temptations)
1969: "G.I.T. (On Broadway)" (live album/TV soundtrack w/the Temptations
1969: "Let the Sunshine In"
1970: "Farewell"

....and that's just the Diana stuff!

Post-Diana:
1970: "Right On" (this features "Up the Ladder to the Roof")
1970: "New Ways But Love Stays" (this features "Stoned Love")
1970: "The Magnificent 7" (w/the Four Tops)
1970: "The Return of the Magnificent 7" (w/the Four Tops)
1971: "Touch"
1971: "Dynamite" (w/the Four Tops)
1972: "Floy Joy"
1973: "The Supremes Arranged and Produced by Jimmy Webb"
1975: "The Supremes"
1976: "High Energy"
1976: "Mary, Scherrie, Susaye" (the last album)

thekidsgirl said:

Yeah, I'd say you did quite good, esp if the price was very good. It doesn't have Flo's lead on "Buttered Popcorn" but you can probably find that as a single mp3 somewhere.

Timmy84 said:

I have both of those albums and used to rock them out when I was a kid. I always wanted the H-D-H one. Great stuff. I always wondered how the Liverpool stuff sounded? Berry was a trip.

Timmy...have you ever seen GIT or TCB? I could never get my hands on either, but heard GIT was the ultimate in cheese.

brooksie said:

I saw a bit of both shows. GIT does seem cheesy as fuck tho.

I'd say the boxed set or the Gold collection, but the on you mentioned is a good "hits" compilation.




[Edited 6/9/09 21:28pm]

SIX albums in 1965 alone? Damn they worked artists back then! I can't imagine a modern artist having 2 full albums released in one year, let alone 6.

Imagine if they'd been around in the reggae era..."Supremes Sing Marley, Buring Spear, and Cliff" or the hip hop era "Supremes Rap H-D-H", "Supremes Sing 50 Cent" and the list goes on. That Berry They're just lucky there was no such thing as the net. They'd be toast.

brooksie said:

Yeah, Motown worked the hell out of their artists. That's why you have so many different alternate versions as well as unreleased tracks.
[Edited 6/9/09 21:28pm]

thekidsgirl said:

Looks like you got a good deal.

If you hadn't gotten that one...



...I might've suggested one of these two as starter sets.


tA

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http://www.soundclick.com...dID=182431

theAudience said:

This one is really good also.

^^^ Yes, that's the one I have also. You can really hear their improvement in that 1st disc from beginning to end.

Timmy84 said:

WTF!!! They actually had an album called the supremes
sing country, western, pop. I wonder how well that went
over.

Anyway Reflections and Love Child were very good albums
My mom had both of those.
And post diana floy joy was my joint. Never heard the
album but loved the single even though it wasn't one
of their well known hits. I actually believe solange
got the idea for the melody I decided from Floy Joy.

phunkdaddy said:

[Edited 6/9/09 21:40pm]

Word was that since the Ray Charles country sets went well, they figured the Supremes could benefit from it since they had started to get big hits.

brooksie said:

It's too bad that Prince wasn't around back then.He could have "flooded the market" and the record label would not have objected,lol.

After you've got your foundation laid, here are a few interesting Hip-O-Select releases.









Let The Music Play: Supreme Rarities - (2-disc "vault" cuts)
In Japan! (Live in '73 with the Mary Wilson, Jean Terrell & Lynda Laurence version of the group)
There's A Place For Us - (Unreleased Motown album plus bonus tracks)
This Is The Story: The 70s Albums Vol.1 1970-1973 (subtitled The Jean Terrell Years)
Where Did Our Love Go - (40th Anniversary Edition of their breakthrough album)


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SoulAlive said:

James Brown was Prince before Prince came along. James released so much stuff it isn't funny.

daPrettyman said:

James got like 60 albums or something!

Timmy84 said:

Most of them were in the 60s and 70s, too.

daPrettyman said:

...Like gummint mules.


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daPrettyman said:

Didn't he release like three or four albums every year?

daPrettyman said:

Good estimates.

According to this site (just counting the 60s & 70s, not including reissues): http://www.funky-stuff.co.../disco.htm

60s: 37
70s: 28

That's 65 albums in a 20 year span!


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theAudience said:

WOW!

Not to mention he released about 85 singles during that time period! No wonder he became the GODFATHER!

thanks everybody

I've been listening to this set all day and I'm in love!!!

Had no idea they had so much music

theAudience said:

Word, Marvin released like three or four albums in 1964 alone and two of them were Broadway/jazz covers.

Timmy84 said:

That was the Motown way for sure.

daPrettyman said:

And even more odd was when Marvin started he wanted to be a jazz singer, Motown insisted he do R&B yet they still allowed him to do jazz albums until it was obvious where the money flew. Even more odder he pushed the jazz/Broadway stuff on the Supremes after they got popular with the mainstream.