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A Whole Lotta Ground: "Motown Unreleased 1969" Features Supremes, Temptations, Smokey, Marvin Gaye, Kiki Dee, More

September 20, 2019 By Joe Marchese 15 Comments

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This weekend, Motown fans and alumni are descending on Detroit for the ultimate celebration of Hitsville, USA's 60 years of music and memories culminating in the Hitsville Honors gala. But the label doesn't want fans elsewhere to be left out in the cold. In a surprise, the annual digital collection of Motown Unreleased won't be arriving in December, but instead is available now.

To mark 60 years, Motown Unreleased 1969 boasts 60 tracks, all recorded in 1969 and left unheard - until now. The label's heaviest hitters are all here, including Diana Ross and The Supremes with their rendition of the Ron Miller/Orlando Murden standard "For Once in My Life," Gladys Knight and The Pips ("You Took Me This Far (Take Me All the Way))," Jackson 5 ("What's So Good About Goodbye"), and Marvin Gaye ("I'll Take Care of Business"). Three tracks each can be heard from The Temptations, Stevie Wonder, Smokey Robinson and The Miracles, and Jr. Walker and The All-Stars, and four each from Edwin Starr and Bobby Taylor.

That's far from all. This volume also features debuts from Kiki Dee, Valerie Simpson, The Spinners, Rare Earth, Chris Clark, The Originals, The Fantastic Four, and The Volumes, as well as a clutch of tracks from renowned songwriter-producer Ivy Jo Hunter and Funk Brother Earl Van Dyke. Hitsville enthusiasts will also be happy to see tracks from such overlooked artists as The Rustix, Hearts of Stone, Michael Denton (with a medley of songs written by Motown alumnus Jimmy Webb), Terry Johnson, The Stylists, and The Volumes.

Motown Unreleased 1969 looks to be another treasure trove from one of the most legendary labels of all time. Motown 60 is heating up; don't miss out on this collection along with other previously announced titles from Marvin Gaye, The Jackson 5, Blinky, and "The Women of Motown." You'll find the full track listing for the new digital collection below, and it's available for streaming/download now at all digital service providers!

Various Artists, Motown Unreleased 1969 (Motown/UMe, 2019) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K.)

  1. For Once in My Life - Diana Ross & The Supremes
  2. Can't Do Without Your Love - Stevie Wonder
  3. It's Love I Need - Ivy Jo
  4. My World Is Empty Without You - Chris Clark
  5. Pretty Little Brown Skin Girl - The Temptations
  6. Forever I'll Love You - Volumes
  7. (Baby) I Need You - Jr. Walker & The All-Stars featuring Stevie Wonder
  8. Look Out Your Window - Frank Wilson
  9. I'll Always Love You - Edwin Starr
  10. Stone Soul Booster - Earl Van Dyke
  11. You Took Me This Far (Take Me All the Way) - Gladys Knight & The Pips
  12. Won't You Come and Fly with Me - Smokey Robinson & The Miracles
  13. Born Just to Be That Way - Edwin Starr
  14. What About Me - Smokey Robinson & The Miracles
  15. Too Many Fish in the Sea - Jonah Jones
  16. Fan the Flame - Edwin Starr
  17. The Last Thing on My Mind - Chris Clark
  18. Backfire (Version 1) - Smokey Robinson & The Miracles
  19. I Had a Dream (Opus 1) - Gladys Knight & The Pips
  20. Why (Must We Fall in Love) - The Temptations
  21. What Becomes of the Brokenhearted - The Fantastic Four
  22. Ask the Lonely - Ivy Jo
  23. Yesterday's Dreams - Ivy Jo
  24. I Got to Get to California - Ivy Jo
  25. Blame It on War - The Originals
  26. The Jackpot - Stylists
  27. Don't Think It's Me - The Spinners
  28. MacArthur Park/Didn't We - Michael Denton
  29. Someone for My Own - Michael Denton
  30. One Lucky Day I Found You - Volumes
  31. Generation - The Rustix
  32. Country Girl - Jr. Walker & The All-Stars
  33. Something You Got (Studio Version) - Jr. Walker & The All-Stars
  34. At Last (I Found a Love) - Bobby Taylor
  35. Love Is Here and Now You're Gone - Bobby Taylor
  36. What's So Good About Goodbye - The Jackson 5
  37. You've Really Got a Hold on Me - Bobby Taylor feat. The Jackson 5
  38. The Stranger - Earl Van Dyke
  39. I Wish It Would Rain - Earl Van Dyke
  40. Start Out a New Day - Stevie Wonder
  41. All the Many Shades in Between - Gordon Staples & The Motown Strings
  42. You Ain't Livin' Till You're Lovin' - Valerie Simpson
  43. Pain from My Loneliness - Edwin Starr
  44. All I Could Do Was Cry - Yvonne Fair
  45. Home Is Where the Heart Is - The Temptations
  46. Moon - Stevie Wonder
  47. Your Heartaches I Can Surely Heal - Rare Earth
  48. Dancing in the Street - Ivy Jo
  49. I'll Take Care of Business - Marvin Gaye
  50. Pride, Foolish Pride - Ivy Jo
  51. Moratorium - Earl Van Dyke
  52. While They Watch - Kiki Dee
  53. This Is the Beginning - Terry Johnson
  54. I Blew My Mind - Terry Johnson
  55. Chicken Little 69 - Earl Van Dyke
  56. You're My World - Kiki Dee
  57. Touched by Love - Bobby Taylor
  58. When Push Comes to Shove - Hearts of Stone
  59. I Gotta Cover a Whole Lotta Ground - Jimmy Ruffin
  60. Tomorrow's Child - Terry Johnson

Categories: News Formats: Digital Download, Digital Streaming Genre: Pop, R&B/Soul Tags: Diana Ross and The Supremes, Earl Van Dyke, Edwin Starr, Ivy Jo Hunter, Kiki Dee, Marvin Gaye, Rare Earth, Smokey Robinson and the Miracles, The Originals, The Spinners, Valerie Simpson, Various Artists

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Joe Marchese

JOE MARCHESE (Editor) joined The Second Disc shortly after its launch in early 2010, and has since penned daily news and reviews about classic music of all genres. In 2015, Joe formed the Second Disc Records label. Celebrating the great songwriters, producers and artists who created the sound of American popular song, Second Disc Records, in conjunction with Real Gone Music, has released newly-curated collections produced by Joe from iconic artists such as Johnny Mathis, Bobby Darin, Laura Nyro, Melissa Manchester, Chet Atkins, and many others. He has contributed liner notes to reissues from a diverse array of artists, among them Nat "King" Cole, Paul Williams, Lesley Gore, Dusty Springfield, B.J. Thomas, The 5th Dimension, Burt Bacharach, The Mamas and the Papas, Carpenters, Perry Como, Rod McKuen, Doris Day, Jackie DeShannon, and Andy Williams, and has compiled releases for talents including Robert Goulet and Keith Allison of Paul Revere and the Raiders. Over the past two decades, Joe has also worked in a variety of capacities on and off Broadway as well as at some of the premier theatres in the U.S., including Lincoln Center Theater, George Street Playhouse, Paper Mill Playhouse, Long Wharf Theatre, and the York Theatre Company. He has felt privileged to work on productions alongside artists such as the late Jack Klugman, Eli Wallach, Arthur Laurents, Betty Comden and Adolph Green. In 2009, Joe began contributing theatre and music reviews to the print publication The Sondheim Review, and in 2012, he joined the staff of The Digital Bits as a regular contributor writing about film and television on DVD and Blu-ray. Joe currently resides in the suburbs of New York City.

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Comments

  1. Joe Mac Pherson says

    September 20, 2019 at 11:33 am

    ! DIGITAL !
    In 1988, I owned close to 3,000 vinyl recordings, from the U.S., U.K., Canada, Australia, Germany. That same year, I finally switched to the CD format, vowing to replace as much of my vinyl as possible to CD, whenever the titles got released. By 2001, I owned more than 2,000 CD titles. Obviously, there's a lot more now, coming from the U.S., U.K., Canada, Australia, Germany AND Argentina, Chile, Peru, Mexico, Spain, France, the Netherlands, Denmark, Sweden, Italy and Japan.
    There's no way I'll start again, for the digital, MP3 format. Besides, I like reading the liner notes, lyrics, production notes, appreciating the photography and anything else you get with CD.
    This is another Motown product I'll never own.

    Reply
    • Phil Cohen says

      September 21, 2019 at 4:29 am

      While i agree with you that I would prefer CD's and I loath lossy audio (such as MP3 and AAC), there are lossless editions of "Motown Unreleased 1969", though, for unknown reasons, the lossless versions are available to U.S.A. consumers only from unofficial Free sites (The official sellers of the 44.1Khz/16-bit & 96Khz/24-bit versions are prohibited by Universal to sell them to consumers in the U.S.A.). If consumers in the U.S.A. get the lossless versions from unofficial sites, Universal Music is hardly suffering. The whole point of "Copyright Extension" sets such as the "Motown Unreleased" series wasn't to sell lots of "units"(and make lots of money), but rather to extend the UK/Europe copyright protection on the recordings for another 20 years.
      By the way, you don't have to risk the existence of a collection of downloaded music on the potential instability or crashes of a computer or music server. Burn the music to CD-R. That's what I do . And there are programs available that will enable you to burn High Resolution audio to disc in the DVD-Audio format.

      Reply
      • Jarmo Keranen says

        September 21, 2019 at 6:37 am

        But you can't download booklets!

        Reply
    • Robert Lett says

      September 21, 2019 at 10:42 am

      The 1966 box was super and it gets good money on Ebay so it sold out quickly. I hate that they don't release the others on CD too. Digital is a hard pass for me always.

      Reply
      • Joe Mac Pherson says

        September 21, 2019 at 11:05 am

        I own that box set. I ordered it, the same day it was issued. I knew better than to wait!
        This might surprise many of the readers to this site, but I also have a serious passion for Alternative/Indie bands and recording artists, of this decade and the last. To my regret, some of these bands stopped issuing their music on CD, selecting MP3 files and vinyl, exclusively. Or, they're only issuing their music on vinyl/MP3 format. I decided, I'll only support those artists who realize, not everyone wants vinyl, which eventually or quickly reveals surface noise. Alternatively, MP3 will never happen, for me. So, I'm no longer buying tickets to see these people in concert.

        Reply
  2. Mike Mullins says

    September 20, 2019 at 12:26 pm

    Is this available on CD?

    Reply
    • Avatar photoJoe Marchese says

      September 20, 2019 at 12:41 pm

      This is a digital-only release. To date, only “Motown Unreleased 1966” has been made available in a physical format.

      Reply
  3. Michael Bailey says

    September 20, 2019 at 12:46 pm

    This is great news and a total surprise. Usually I have to wait until December to get these annual "Unreleased" releases.

    Reply
  4. therocksnob says

    September 20, 2019 at 6:09 pm

    When this hit my e-mail on Monday, it totally made my week. As the ultimate Ross-O-Phile and Motown freak, this early drop was a happy surprise!

    Reply
  5. Phil Cohen says

    September 21, 2019 at 4:13 am

    It appears that, for now, that the 44.1Khz/16-bit and 96Khz/24-bit versions are (officially) available only to consumers in Japan & Germany, while one U.S.A. seller is offering a lossy (AAC) version. I don't want a lossy version. Of course, unofficial free sites wil cheerfully supply the 44.1Khz/16-bit & 96Khz/24 bit versions. On the plus side, no previous "Motown Unreleased" volume has been offered as 96Khz/24-bit audio, though given the low fidelity nature of many 1960's Motown recordings, I doubt that 24-bit audio will offer any audible benefit.

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    • DanMan869 says

      September 21, 2019 at 5:06 pm

      If you go to us.7digital.com, you can purchase the lossless 44.1Khz/16-bit & 96Khz/24 bit versions--plus the 320kbps MP3 or M4A versions, too.

      Reply
      • Phil Cohen says

        September 24, 2019 at 1:47 am

        I initially looked at 7Digital's site, and it wasn't available at the time.

        Reply
      • Joe Mac Pherson says

        September 24, 2019 at 3:18 am

        Does a booklet accompany this MP3 issue? Are there marvelous historic photographs, too? Are there liner notes, or interviews with any of the singers, producers, musicians, songwriters? Can you discover what dates the recordings were made, or what take these songs are? Will you know the names of any backup singers, or the producer's name, or songwriter's name, or names? Will you gain insight as to why these songs weren't released? Will your MP3 file release provide answers to these questions?
        If not, it's a significant loss of information, and knowledgeable appreciation for the label, the music, the recording artists, the people who made it all possible. Your MP3 file will be a promotion of ignorance.

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        • DanMan869 says

          September 24, 2019 at 8:44 am

          Why are you giving me a hard time about the fact that this set is only available digitally? My response was to Phil Cohen asking about purchasing lossless digital copies of the music and I gave him a site option. Direct your anger about digital vs. physical release at Universal--not at me.

          Reply
  6. David B says

    September 24, 2019 at 5:43 pm

    Anyone notice the price difference? USA $11.49, UK £26.69 .. great set but not good for UK buyers ..

    Reply

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