VA – Motown Originals: The Classic Songs That Inspired the Broadway Show! [Special Edition] (2013)

The last frontier for Motown is the Great White Way and so, in 2013, the Sound of Young America hit Broadway via a jukebox musical loosely focused on the rise of Berry Gordy Jr. in the ’60s.
To accompany this musical came Motown Originals: The Classic Songs That Inspired the Broadway Show!, another repackaging of the songs you know and love: “Get Ready,” “Dancing in the Street,” “Shop Around,” “My Guy,” “Where Did Our Love Go,” “I Want You Back,” etc. There are two versions, one a single disc and one a double, but in either incarnation there are no songs that will surprise because that’s not the intent of this compilation.
This is supposed to serve up the biggest and best songs of Motown, and it does. While it is hard to believe that many Motown fans don’t have these…

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…tunes somewhere in their collections, it’s also hard to believe that anybody who doesn’t won’t wind up satisfied by this enjoyable collection.

The 2-CD version ups the tracks from 14 to 40, making room for artists not represented on the highlights disc such as early hitmaker Barrett Strong (“Money (That’s What I Want)”), The Contours (“Do You Love Me”), The Four Tops (“Baby, I Need Your Loving”), Rick James (“Super Freak”) and The Commodores (“Brick House”). The Temptations’ psychedelic soul period gets aired on the 2-CD set (“Ball of Confusion,” “Cloud Nine”) as well as the post-Ross Supremes era (“Up the Ladder to the Roof”). Each track on the single-disc version is also present on the double-disc edition. As the musical hasn’t begun previews yet, there’s no word on whether the track listing of either edition reflects the actual sequence of the songs in the musical penned by Gordy.  — The Second Disc

CD 1:

1. Get Ready – The Temptations
2. Dancing In The Street – Martha & the Vandellas
3. Money (That’s What I Want) – Barrett Strong
4. Shop Around – The Miracles
5. Stubborn Kind Of Fellow – Marvin Gaye featuring The Vandellas
6. Fingertips – Part 2 – Stevie Wonder
7. Please Mr. Postman – The Marvelettes
8. Two Lovers – Mary Wells
9. You’ve Really Got A Hold On Me – The Miracles
10. Do You Love Me – The Contours
11. My Guy – Mary Wells
12. Where Did Our Love Go – The Supremes
13. Stop! In The Name Of Love – The Supremes
14. Baby I Need Your Loving – Four Tops
15. Shotgun – Jr. Walker & the All Stars
16. Love Is Here And Now You’re Gone – The Supremes
17. I Heard It Through The Grapevine – Marvin Gaye
18. War – Edwin Starr
19. What’s Going On – Marvin Gaye
20. Ball Of Confusion (That’s What The World Is Today) – The Temptations

CD 2

1. Love Child – Diana Ross & The Supremes
2. Cloud Nine – The Temptations
3. For Once In My Life – Stevie Wonder
4. Who’s Lovin’ You – The Miracles
5. I Want You Back – The Jackson 5
6. I’ll Be There – The Jackson 5
7. Up The Ladder To The Roof – The Supremes
8. My Girl – The Temptations
9. You’re All I Need To Get By – Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell
10. I Hear A Symphony – The Supremes
11. My World Is Empty Without You – The Supremes
12. Reach Out And Touch (Somebody’s Hand) – Diana Ross
13. Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology) – Marvin Gaye
14. Cruisin’ – Smokey Robinson
15. Brick House – The Commodores
16. I’m Coming Out – Diana Ross
17. All Night Long (All Night) – Lionel Richie
18. Super Freak – Rick James
19. Remember Me – Diana Ross
20. Ain’t No Mountain High Enough – Diana Ross