Cellar Full of Motown 2 [Import]

Various Artists (Artist) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (July 11, 2005)
• Number of Discs: 2
• Format: Import
• Label: Universal UK
• ASIN: B0009A21J4
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #70,565 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
  • #66 in Music > R&B > Soul > Northern

Track Listings

1. All Day All Night

2. Take Me In Your Arms (Rock Me A Little While)

3. Every Day I'll Love You More Than Yesterday

4. Everty Time I See You I Go Wild

5. My Tow Arms -You = Tears

6. Keep Stepping (Never Look Back)

7. Take My Hand

8. Boy From Crosstown

9. I Can't Get Along Without You

10. I Gave Up Quality For Quantity

11. Start With Joy In The Morning

12. What Am I Gonna Do Without You

13. After Teh Rain

14. Let's Talk It Over

15. Choo Choo Train

16. I've Gotta Get Away

17. How Girl

18. In The Dark

19. Love Trouble Heartache & Misery

20. Positively Absolutely Right

See all 42 tracks on this disc

Editorial Reviews

Nearly Three Years Later Comes the Second Volume of the Series of Motown Rarities. While the Premise of the Original Has Remained Intact - all 42 Songs Are Previously Unreleased, the Horizons have Been Broadened Just a Bit. So You Will Find a Couple of Familiar Songs in a Totally Different Format, a Few Tracks from the Label's Early Years and a Surprising Revisit to an Early 60's Instrumental by a 70's Female Vocalist. What Remains Constant Though is the Quality of These Long-lost Grooves. These Are Not Fillers, Nor Are They Throwaway Songs; Why They were Never Released is a Mystery that Will Probably Always Remain So.

Customer Reviews

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19 of 20 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Another Collection of Rare Gems From Motown UK, August 22, 2005

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James E. Bagley "Jim Bagley" (Sanatoga, PA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Cellar Full of Motown 2 (Audio CD)

This second volume of rare gems is just as good as the first two-disc set that came out in 2002. Nearly all were previously unreleased on cd (I have the Marvelettes' "Boy From Crosstown" on two other imports so I am not sure why it is included here). What I particularly love about these sets is that they continue to round up quality material by second tier (but first rate) artists from the `60s like Carolyn "My Smile Is Just A Frown Turned Upside Down" Crawford, Kim Weston, Blinky, the Monitors, the Elgins, and my favorite Brenda Holloway. Volume One had way more Brenda recordings, but with the release of her two-disc Anthology earlier in the year which included several previously unreleased tracks, it must be getting harder to dig up quality Holloway rarities. Plus, the focus of this set seems to be on highlighting a greater number of artists, as no one was given more than two tracks.


Following is the track lineup with performers

Side 1:
Earl Van Dyke - All Day, All Night
Eddie Holland - Take Me In Your Arms
Gladys Knight & the Pips - Everyday I'll Love You More Than Yesterday
JJ Barnes - Everytime I See You, I Go Wild
The Elgins - My Two Arms - You = Tears
Carolyn Crawford - Keep Stepping (Never Look Back)
Dalton Boys - Take My Hand
Marvelettes - Boys From Crosstown
The Monitors - I Can't Get Along Without You
Stevie Wonder - I Gave Up Quality For Quantity
Martha & the Vandellas - Start With Joy In The Morning
The Spinners - What Am I Gonna Do Without You
Kim Weston - After The Rain
Marv Johnson - Let's Talk It Over
Little Lisa - Choo Choo Train
Tommy Good - I've Gotta Get Away
The Vows - Show Girl
Creations - In The Dark
Hattie Littles - Love Trouble Heartache & Misery
The Temptations - Positively Absolutely Right
Shorty Long - A Woman Just Won't Do Right

Side 2:
Diana Ross & the Supremes - Honey Bee (Out On The Floor mix)
JJ Barnes - Everybody Needs Somebody
The Miracles - Hoping the Pause Is Helping The Cause
Debbie Dean - Baby Baby I'm In Love Again
The Isley Brothers - I Can't Go On Sharing Your Love
The Lewis Sisters - Breakaway
Four Tops - It's A Lonely World Without Your Love
Connie Haines - Midnight Johnny
The Contours - Take Him Back If It Makes You Happy
Chris Clark - Sweet Loving
Terry Johnson - My Spring Time
Martha & the Vandellas - Lone Lonely Town
The Originals - Nothing In This World Like My Baby
The Monitors - Words
The Supremes - You've Got To Pay The Price
Syreeta - Where Is The Love
Blinky - Rescue Me
Patrice Holloway - Those DJ Shows
Tammi Terrell - My Heart
Marvelettes - I Hope You Have Better Luck Than I Did
Brenda Holloway - Crying Time

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Another great collection of unreleased Motown gems., December 29, 2005

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rollo (usa) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Cellar Full of Motown 2 (Audio CD)

Cellarful of Motown vol.1 and now this Vol.2 contain many stellar performances that were panned by Motown for various reasons thus never released. Cellarful Vol.2 is a European pressing only which may be hard to find in American record shops. Some of this stuff is corny while other stuff is noteworthy. The remastering is 24 bit and there are many selections that are stereo. Some people only like HIT records which renders this collection useless to them. Those folks who like strange Motown tunes and performances will be mostly pleased with the contents of Cellarful of Motown, both volumes.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Must be a big cellar, March 31, 2006

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Laurence Upton (Wilts, UK) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Cellar Full of Motown 2 (Audio CD)

When A Cellarful Of Motown appeared in 2002 the general consensus was that it was astonishing that so many tracks of such amazing quality could have remained languishing unheard in an archive, lost and undocumented for so many years. Even the compilers registered their surprise and doubted there would be enough fresh discoveries to warrant a sequel of previously unreleased material.

Motown was on a phenomenal roll throughout the sixties, with the Hitsville studio in Detroit augmented by a second studio in the Davison area, and further recording and talent spotting operations setting up in New York, Chicago and especially in Los Angeles, where the company eventually relocated. Hitsville seemed to operate around the clock, like a factory, with songs being tried out with various groups and singers in a highly competitive and creative ferment, and an extremely discard rate.

A few tracks into Volume 2, three years later, having heard new classic cuts by Earl Van Dyke, Eddie Holland and Gladys Knight, any fears that quality control may have been lowered to fill another double-CD collection were blown away. How could any of these have been deemed unworthy of release at the time?

Sometimes a recording remained in the can because the song was released by another artist (often using the same backing track), but often both song and recording were consigned to oblivion.
Here, for example is The Boy From Crosstown in its original 1965 version by the Marvelettes, featuring Gladys Horton. A re-recording appeared the following year on an obscure compilation called Year By Year, and the song turned up on Gladys Knight and the Pips' 1968 album Feelin' Bluesy, but was never the single it deserved to be despite two other attempts featuring the Velvelettes, also unreleased at the time. Smokey Robinson and the Miracles' Hoping The Pause Is Helping The Cause could only have improved the Special Occasion album had it been included, and there are six other masterful Smokey songs, five of which have not been heard before, one co-written with his wife Claudette, her only known Jobete composer credit.

Chris Clark recently benefitted from a 2CD Anthology with a whole second disc of previously unheard recordings, yet another choice gem not included there, Sweet Lovin', surfaces on this collection. The same could be said of After The Rain by Kim Weston, and the closer Crying Time by Brenda Holloway.

There are new finds by artists legendary for not getting released as they deserved at the time - Carolyn Crawford, Patrice Holloway, Hattie Littles and Debbie Dean are just a few who appear once each here and just whet the appetite for more.

Some go beyond obscure - the Beatle-influenced Dalton Boys song is a B-side that was replaced by a different track at the last moment, and so was unreleased, but here is an alternative version to that. There are too many highlights to cite individually, but it was intriguing to hear a Monitors recording (Words) with a female lead, presumably Sandra Fagin. There are some towering vocals from Martha Reeves and the Vandellas from 1967 and 1969, and a fresh version by Blinky of Rescue Me produced by Raynard Miner, who co-wrote and produced the Fontella Bass smash original, in stereo, as are seven others including a great Marvelettes track that was almost the follow-up to The Hunter Gets Captured By The Game.

I now have every confidence that Volume 3 will contain further revelations.