Motown Love Songs

Various Artists (Artist) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (August 8, 1995)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Motown
• ASIN: B000001AA4
• Also Available in: Audio Cassette
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #609,620 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Ooo Baby Baby

2. What Becomes of the Brokenhearted

3. Does Your Mama Know About Me

4. I'll Take Care of You

5. Baby, Baby Don't Cry

6. Baby, I'm for Real

7. I'll Be There

8. Just My Imagination (Running Away With Me)

9. Got to Be There

10. Love (Makes Me Do Foolish Things)

11. A Fork in the Road

12. Neither One of Us (Wants to Be the First to Say Goodbye)

13. One Day in Your Life

14. Three Times a Lady

15. Ben

16. It's So Hard to Say Goodbye to Yesterday

17. Easy

18. Ebony Eyes

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com

Creating an 18-track collection of love songs from the vast Motown catalog is no easy task. Sensibly, this package includes some obvious classics like the Miracles' "Ooh Baby Baby," the Originals' "Baby I'm for Real"--penned and produced for the group by Marvin Gaye--and the Temptations' "Just My Imagination." On the obscure tip, there's Gaye's own "I'll Take Care Of You" (a 1967 B-side) and former Spinner G.C. Cameron's original version of the Cooley High theme, "It's So Hard to Say Goodbye to Yesterday," later revived by Boyz II Men as a No. 1 hit in 1991. But there are some major flaws. Why three tracks each by the Miracles and Michael Jackson (including "Ben," his famed ode to a rodent) when there are countless major Motown artists--like Diana Ross and the Four Tops--missing from this package? Arbitrary choices in the selection of repertoire and some strange sequencing make this a little less than satisfying, but if you want a half-dozen Motown classics on one CD, this will do the trick. --David Nathan