Motown Anthology [Import]

Kim Weston | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (October 10, 2005)
• Original Release Date: 2005
• Number of Discs: 2
• Format: Import
• Label: Universal UK
• ASIN: B000B8Q8HK
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #19,389 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
  • #68 in Music > Imports > R&B

Track Listings

1. I Know His Name (Only His Name)

2. Love Me All The Way

3. Just Loving You

4. Meet Me Half Way

5. Looking For The Right Guy

6. Perfect Love

7. Little More Love

8. Loving Touch

9. I'm Still Loving You

10. Love, Trouble, Heartache & Misery

11. Thrill A Moment

12. Look My Way

13. Another Train Coming

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

15. Helpless

16. I Need Him

17. You Hit Me Where It Hurt Me

18. Your Mother Called On Me Today

19. Hurt A Little Everyday

20. I'm The Exception To The Rule

See all 48 tracks on this disc

Editorial Reviews

Kim Weston was one of Motown's most underrated songbirds, despite turning out classics such as 'Helpless' & 'Take Me In Your Arms (Rock Me A Little While)', she really didn't achieve the superstardom that she richly deserved. This double CD features many firsts, UK run stereo versions, first ever airings and a brace of alternative takes. 48 total tracks. Univesal. 2005.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

28 of 29 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Finally It's Happened for Kim!, November 7, 2005

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Larry Jones "Luvdauptwonsoul" (San Francisco ,Ca) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Motown Anthology (Audio CD)

All I can really say to get started, is to say FINALLY Kim Weston gets her due. After many other of her 2nd tier comrades for the Detroit label have been properly anthologized, she gets this great collection that avoids excellently duplication from her previous single disc compilations. Another blessing is the absolute lack of Marvin Gaye Duets! not to say I hate those, but it is great to see Mrs. Weston presented as the great SOLOIST she is.

Ok to actually get to the music. oh-mi0god what Music. I'm really starting to believe the rumours that her relationship with husband Mickey Stevenson did not help her release schedule. She went through 5 releases between 1963 thru 1965 that did not chart, despite excellent quality of each. The fact that there is such copious music of great quality that wasn't released is amazing. Early tracks like " I Know His Name(Only His Name)" which was also recorded at a much faster pace by The Velvelettes is given a tough Brill Building treatment not unlike Little Eva's "Keep Your Hands Off My Baby." It seems that from the start Motown did not know how to really market her, since all the recordings on the 2nd disc cover some pastiche of 1963-64 music."When We Get Together" seems like a lost Ruby & The Romantics album track(like their "Daydreaming"). "Build Him Up" seems like your typical Holland-Dozier-Holland girl group classic from 1963, but it displays some of Kim Weston's finest gospel belting towards the fade. Also throughout both discs you note that Mrs. Weston was handed more "adult" songs lyrically in comparison to her label mates. Also remarkable is the fact that so many of her songs weren't immediately passed to someone else for covering, if at all.

This set shows yet again how much female talent was wasted at Motown. In Mrs. Weston's case you cannot directly blame the Supremes however, since she signed a year ahead of any real success by that group. Given the tracks that dominate disc one she would have had one of the finer Motown Dance albums ever in 1965 had an actual album been planned. Beautiful tracks like "You Can Do It" and "I Don't Know If I'm Coming Or Going" are pure Motown graced with the warmth and sincerity not normally found in most dance music("You Can Do it" is particularly touching, one can see it as someone grieving even the death of a love one and learning how to live again...maybe I'm reading a bit too deeply, but that's how much emotion is dripping out of the song). I actually prefer Kim's version of "Hurt a Little Everyday" for it's lack of overdramatic histrionics musically (Not necessarily vocally) of Brenda Holloway's version. I can't exactly tell if The "Come and Get These Memories" track is the same used for "The Supremes A-Go-Go" in 1966, they seem similar. Also it's great not to have to listen to hissing, droning or poorly mixed bootleg tracks like "Any Girl In Love (Knows What I'm Going Through)," "Absent Minded Lover " and the outstanding "You Hit Me Where It Hurt Me" you can't really appreciate the greatness of that particular track until you've heard it in the Stereo mix heard here.

again the British Tamla Motown people give the people what they want, I dunno what to ask for next, I'm pretty sure they are digging for an all out Elgins or Tammi Terrell set.

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A MOTOWN MUST-HAVE, November 18, 2005

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P.L. (KINGSTON, NY United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Motown Anthology (Audio CD)

In a word, sublime. Kim Weston was Motown's greatest female singer and, if used properly, could have had a career like her contemporaries, Aretha Franklin and Dionne Warwick. Motown aficionados will want it for one track alone, YOUR WONDERFUL SWEET, SWEET LOVE. Yes, this is the same song that was an unsuccessful single from the Supremes' joyous FLOY JOY album in 1972. Kim's version was recorded in 1966 and, despite having hit written all over it, was never even released! Shameful, as the song is a knockout. Another unreleased gem is ANY GIRL IN LOVE (KNOWS WHAT I'M GOING THROUGH) which seems to have the same track as the Supremes' version from their I HEAR A SYMPHONY album. Of the 48 tracks, only 9 are repeated from Kim's GREATEST HITS & RARE CLASSICS collection.

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars LEGENDARY MOTOWN DIVA~BRAVO KIM WESTON!!!, June 7, 2007

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Bradly Briggs (TOLUCA LAKE, CALIFORNIA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Motown Anthology (Audio CD)

"A Thrill A Moment" is what this great legendary Motown Diva is for the lucky listener of this peerless collection of classic performances! Kim Weston technically is the greatest singer from the classic Motown Years but for some strange reason was not properly promoted although she is the duet partner with Marvin Gaye in the timeless classic "It Takes Two" which should have made Kim Weston a household name but maybe being married to the Vice President of Motown Records was a drawback as big ego's must have been raging when her husband decided to leave Barry Gordy and Motown Records...this great singer went on to record many classic recordings but seemed to be blackballed from the industry and her great work received no airplay. Without radio support a singer becomes lost and this was even true in the great musical sixties as Kim kept on recording masterworks that even to this day have not been released on compact disc and this is a sad commentary for the music industry which should have build it's house on talent and today would have been much stronger and probably would not have suffered major closures such as Tower Records...but thankfully from the British we have this incredible and brilliant double-disc delight with Kim Weston in prime form from her classic Motown days! Filled with many of the greatest burning tracks from those tremendous and wondrous Motown years, this is a magical musical feast for fans of this great fiery singer and fans of the Classic Sixties Motown years so do not miss out while this incredible Import Collection of masterful performances is available...soulful singing just does not get better than this and thank you Kim Weston!!! You are a truly incredible singer and performer and please come out wherever you are...talent like yours is needed today more than ever!!!