Never Before Released

Supremes | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (October 25, 1990)
• Label: Motown
• ASIN: B000008K95
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #31,455 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
  • #60 in Music > Pop > Oldies > Girl Groups

Track Listings

1. Sweet Thing

2. It's Going All The Way (To True True Love)

3. Little Breeze

4. Am I Asking Too Much

5. Stormy

6. Slow Down

7. Don't Let True Love Die

8. Too Much A Little Too Soon

9. Too Hurt To Cry, Too Much In Love To Say Goodbye

10. Can I Get A Witness

11. Come Into My Palace

12. I'm The Exception To The Rule

13. Our Day Will Come

14. Save Me A Star

15. Mr. Blues

16. Little Miss Loser

17. Fancy Passes

18. The Ballad Of Davy Crockett

19. Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious

20. Whistle While You Work

See all 27 tracks on this disc

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars ABOVE AVERAGE MATERIAL; SOME VERY GOOD PERFORMANCES, July 29, 2008

By 

VINCENT P TARSITANO (PORT ORANGE, FL USA) - See all my reviews
(REAL NAME)   

This review is from: Never Before Released (Audio CD)

As a big Supremes fan, this is one collection I would not be without. The main assets here are the songs themselves---an above average collection of material---and excellent performances by the singers, arrangers and players.

The minuses would be the lack of a concept: here you have some custom-tailored originals, as well as some very good Motown covers, plus selections from a proposed--and shelved--Supremes Disney collection, as well as previously unreleased Christmas tunes. An additional minus is the remastering. [When I put these songs side-by-side with tunes from other early Supremes albums to make a custom collection, those songs were much brighter and clearer, while the ones from this collection sound more muted and muddy.]

Since there are about 17 rather wonderful original Motown songs here, the producers could have chosen to create separate collections, one including originals, another featuring the Disney and/or Broadway stuff, and another as part of a Christmas collection.

It's a shame that there wasn't more thought and care applied [or a Motown Select branch of Hip-o!] back then. There also was very skimpy artwork and notes included.

My suggestion to Hip-o-Select would be to take some of these tunes and remix them and re-release them with some semblance of a theme. In fact, these tunes are far superior to many included on Hip-o's expanded WHERE DID OUR LOVE GO and THERE'S A PLACE FOR US sets!

In summary, the songcraft, production and performaces of this collection are strongly above average. [Many of Motown's brightest: Holland-Dozier-Holland, Smokey Robinson, Norman Whitfield, have material represented here.] The remastering stinks. But, there is a definite opportunity here to include much of this material in future collections, with superior mixing and mastering and artwork and notes.