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Track Listings
| Disc: 1 | |||
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| 1. Oh Mother Of Mine | |||
| 2. Romance Without Finance | |||
| 3. Check Yourself | |||
| 4. Your Wonderful Love | |||
| 5. (You're My) Dream Come True | |||
| 6. Isn't She Pretty | |||
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| Disc: 2 | |||
| 1. Get Ready | |||
| 2. Fading Away | |||
| 3. Ain't Too Proud To Beg | |||
| 4. You'll Lose A Precious Love | |||
| 5. Beauty Is Only Skin Deep | |||
| 6. You're Not An Ordinary Girl | |||
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| Disc: 3 | |||
| 1. Runaway Child, Running Wild | |||
| 2. I Need Your Lovin' | |||
| 3. I'll Try Something New Diana Ross and the Supremes & the Temptations | |||
| 4. The Way You Do The Things You Do Diana Ross and the Supremes & the | |||
| 5. Don't Let The Joneses Get You Down | |||
| 6. Since I've Lost You | |||
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Editorial Reviews
In 1961, The Temptations signed to the Motown subsidiary Miracle. A decade later, the group had journeyed through R&B, soul, funk, psychedelia and the arrival of charged politics in their music-and they stood at the top of the Motown heap. This 50th-anniversary set is the first to collect every single in that span; rare early cuts (including their first single Oh Mother of Mine and local hit I Want a Love I Can See ) lead to a wall of Tempts classics: the smashes My Girl; It's Growing; Since I Lost My Baby; Get Ready; Ain't Too Proud to Beg; My Baby; Beauty Is Only Skin Deep; (I Know) I'm Losing You; All I Need; You're My Everything; It's You That I Need; I Wish It Would Rain; I Could Never Love Another; Cloud Nine; Run Away Child, Running Wild 74 in all!
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30 of 30 people found the following review helpful
By freak
Format:Audio CD
If you read the comments from Antonio Mazzatenta concerning this set, you have been given very misinformed information.
1) The singles presented in this collection were NOT recorded in stereo! Each song was multi-tracked, meaning, each was recorded on two, three, four, or more separate tracks, with instruments on some, and vocals on others, then mixed all together to form a final mono track that was pressed on vinyl records and copied to consumer tape formats. This means that the same sound information comes out of each speaker the end-user has. This also avoids things like phase cancelletion, and is not vulnerable to the peculiarities of the listener's stereo system.
2) The reason the music was mixed for mono for the 45 R.P.M. singles was so that they would sound their best on mono AM radio, or the millions of mono record players people used in the 60s.
3) It isn't just a case of mono vs. stereo. The mono mixes were usually different in several ways, from having different musical parts and/or vocals than the stereo, to different EQ and echo that was applied. Many of the mono singles ran longer than the stereo counterparts.
4) The mono mixes were done first by the main session engineers and/or the producers. The stereo mixes were done as an afterthought for the albums, and many were done by a nighttime engineer, literally in the house next door!
5) The stereo mixes are available everywhere. They are usually the mixes found in the stores. The mono mixes, because of several factors, have rarely been reissued, and usually found on pricey boxed sets, and not commonly found. Many fans, as a result of the push for everything stereo for decades, have not even heard the original mono 45 mixes they heard back in the 60s and early 70s.... Read more ›
1) The singles presented in this collection were NOT recorded in stereo! Each song was multi-tracked, meaning, each was recorded on two, three, four, or more separate tracks, with instruments on some, and vocals on others, then mixed all together to form a final mono track that was pressed on vinyl records and copied to consumer tape formats. This means that the same sound information comes out of each speaker the end-user has. This also avoids things like phase cancelletion, and is not vulnerable to the peculiarities of the listener's stereo system.
2) The reason the music was mixed for mono for the 45 R.P.M. singles was so that they would sound their best on mono AM radio, or the millions of mono record players people used in the 60s.
3) It isn't just a case of mono vs. stereo. The mono mixes were usually different in several ways, from having different musical parts and/or vocals than the stereo, to different EQ and echo that was applied. Many of the mono singles ran longer than the stereo counterparts.
4) The mono mixes were done first by the main session engineers and/or the producers. The stereo mixes were done as an afterthought for the albums, and many were done by a nighttime engineer, literally in the house next door!
5) The stereo mixes are available everywhere. They are usually the mixes found in the stores. The mono mixes, because of several factors, have rarely been reissued, and usually found on pricey boxed sets, and not commonly found. Many fans, as a result of the push for everything stereo for decades, have not even heard the original mono 45 mixes they heard back in the 60s and early 70s.... Read more ›
By omnipop
Format:Audio CD
This set is called the Singles collection, so what you you hear are the single mixes , which are mono, and all the better for it. They sound better for a start; Motown was a singles label, so they put more time and effort to singles than albums. (Ironically the Temptations , with Norman Whitfield producing, started Motown's belated foray into albums as artistic statement, that was perfected by Stevie Wonder and Marvin Gaye.)
I did not give this set five stars, simply because the record company could have easily added a fourth disc for the years 1972 and 1973, which would include 'Papa was a Rollin Stone' and 'Masterpiece'
I will add that the best box set of all-time is Motown Singles 1961-1971, all the major Motown hits, in the original mono, which is worth looking for...
I did not give this set five stars, simply because the record company could have easily added a fourth disc for the years 1972 and 1973, which would include 'Papa was a Rollin Stone' and 'Masterpiece'
I will add that the best box set of all-time is Motown Singles 1961-1971, all the major Motown hits, in the original mono, which is worth looking for...
By P. J. Baatz
Format:Audio CD
Great collection and sound fab. Now for those who want the stereo many cd out there with the hard left to right fake stereo, much like the Beatles eary music.
For those who don't like this, please note the CD box says "Singles" and Singles AKA 45's were in mono only. So Hip-o is doing it correct for what they were back when released to the public to hear on there radios then go to the store and buy the LP's Mono or Stereo versions.
If you want some fun stereo mixes then look no further than the Motown Box on Shout which will have stereo and the songs from many Motown artist will sound different due to the mixes used.
When mixing from mono to the Stereo be it the Temps, Beatles or who ever you will always noticed a harder brighter sound to those mixes.
Mono was mixed first in the studio because Stereo back in the early 60's was a new format and many did not have stereo record players yet, so the slow move away from mono took several years. To me as long as they have taken the time to master the music right, they will sound just fine on Vinyl and CD's and I have no beef in that arugement, both can sound great or crappy depending on the care taken in producing the final product.
Ths is an excellent set and sounds as it should.
For those who don't like this, please note the CD box says "Singles" and Singles AKA 45's were in mono only. So Hip-o is doing it correct for what they were back when released to the public to hear on there radios then go to the store and buy the LP's Mono or Stereo versions.
If you want some fun stereo mixes then look no further than the Motown Box on Shout which will have stereo and the songs from many Motown artist will sound different due to the mixes used.
When mixing from mono to the Stereo be it the Temps, Beatles or who ever you will always noticed a harder brighter sound to those mixes.
Mono was mixed first in the studio because Stereo back in the early 60's was a new format and many did not have stereo record players yet, so the slow move away from mono took several years. To me as long as they have taken the time to master the music right, they will sound just fine on Vinyl and CD's and I have no beef in that arugement, both can sound great or crappy depending on the care taken in producing the final product.
Ths is an excellent set and sounds as it should.
7 of 25 people found the following review helpful
By rollo
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Format:Audio CD|Amazon Verified Purchase
I know that many of the earlier singles tracks by the Temptations were pressed monaurally as 45 rpm records but many of the album versions were available in STEREO. I fail to understand why Universal music decided to take these tracks, remaster them for 24 bit and release them in MONO. There are a lot of great songs on this collection, many that I know for a fact that were recorded in STEREO. The music is wonderful, nice package, nice liner notes and such but MONO, no no no.
