tracks

Where Did Our Love Go
He Means The World To Me
Castles In The Sand
Thank You (For Loving Me All The Way)
Live Wire [Commercial Version]
Old Love (Let's Try It Again)
Live Wire [Promo Version - Alternate Mix]
Shambles
Beautiful Woman
The Way You Do The Things You Do
Just Let Me Know
If Your Heart Say Yes
I'll Cry Tomorrow
He's A Good Guy (Yes He Is)
Goddess Of Love
How Can We Tell Him
Better Late Than Never
Run, Run, Run
I'm Giving You Your Freedom
After The Showers Came Flowers
Don't Be A Cry Baby
(You Can't Let The Boy Overpower) The Man In You
Heartbreak Road
Only You
Right Now
Give Me A Kiss
She's My Baby
You're A Wonderful One
When I'm Alone I Cry
Can You Do It
I'll Stand By You
Set Me Free
My Lady Bug Stay Away From That Beatle
Poor Girl
(Like A) Nightmare
If You Were Mine
Midnight Johnny
Keep Me
My Guy
Oh Little Boy (What Did You Do To Me)
In My Lonely Room
A Tear For The Girl
Devil With The Blue Dress
Wind It Up
Every Little Bit Hurts
Land Of A Thousand Boys
Bringin' In The Gold
I've Been A Long Time Leaving
Satisfied Mind
That's What's Happenin'
Once Upon A Time
What's The Matter With You Baby
Just Ain't Enough Love
I'll Be In Trouble
The Girl's Alright With Me
Hey Harmonica Man [First Pressing]
This Little Girl
Little Acorn
Cold As Usual
You're Just Like You
Here Comes That Heartache
Try It Baby
If My Heart Could Sing
Hey Harmonica Man [Alternate Mix]
I Like It Like That
You're So Fine And Sweet
You're My Remedy
A Little Bit Of Sympathy, A Little Bit Of Love
Where Did Our Love Go
He Means The World To Me
Jimmy Brown
Everybody's Angel
I'll Always Love You
Sad Song
When I'm Gone
Guarantee (For A Lifetime)
Baby I Need Your Loving
Call On Me
Since I Lost You
I Want Her Love
You Make Me Happy
You Never Looked Better
Candy To Me
If You Don't Want My Love
Dancing In The Street
There He Is (At My Door)
Baby I Miss You
Leaving Here
My Smile Is Just A Frown Turned Upside Down
I'll Come Running
Looking For The Right Guy
Feel Alright Tonight
Girl (Why You Wanna Make Me Blue)
Baby Baby I Need You
My Lil's Run Off
Spanish Lace And Memories
Satan's Blues
Monkey Jump
Bread Winner
You've Got To Change
It's A Crying Shame (The Way You Treat A Good Man Like Me)
Out To Get You
That's What Love Is Made Of
Would I Love You
Lifetime Man
Mr. Lonely Heart
Baby Don't You Do It
Walk On The Wild Side
Needle In A Haystack
Should I Tell Them
Happy Street
Sad Boy
Baby Love
Ask Any Girl
Whisper You Love Me Boy
I'll Be Available
Soul Stomp
Hot 'N' Tot
What Good Am I Without You
I Want You 'Round
Who You Gonna Run To
Same Old Story [Alternate Mix]
Sweet Thing
How Can I
Hello Love
The Further You Look, The Less You See
Tonight's The Night
You're Bad News
Too Many Fish In The Sea
A Need For Love
Come See About Me
You're Gone (But Always In My Heart) A.K.A. Always In My Heart
Pretty Little Angel [First Pressing]
Tears In Vain
Pretty Little Angel [Alternate Pressing]
Without The One You Love (Life's Not Worthwhile)
Love Has Gone
How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved By You)
Forever
A Little More Love
Go Ahead And Laugh [1st Version]
Wild One
Dancing Slow
When Someone's Good To You
My Heart
Can You Jerk Like Me
The Day When She Needed Me
Come On Do The Jerk
Baby Don't You Go
Randy, The Newspaper Boy
Happy Ghoul Tide
Talkin' To Your Picture
Our Rhapsody
Ever Since The World Began
Long Long Time Ago
This Is The Life
My Way
My Girl
(Talkin' 'Bout) Nobody But My Baby
Come See About Me
Pride And Joy
Put Me In Your Pocket
The Miles
He Was Really Sayin' Somethin'
Throw A Farewell Kiss

notes

Track-by-track annotations by Bill Dahl and Keith Hughes. Edited and augmented by Harry Weinger and Thane Tierney.

Bill Dahl of Chicago has written hundreds of album reviews, feature stories and various articles about music and musicians. He has been nominated for a Grammy(R) award for his notes to Ray Charles' Genius & Soul: The 50th Anniversary Collection. With Weldon A. McDougal III, Dahl is the author of Motown: The Golden Years.

Keith Hughes of Wantage, England, is the author of Don't Forget The Motor City, a Motown discography, and he has written articles for a variety of soul magazines. His research has appeared in a number of CD compilations.

Bilboard chart information courtesy of BPI Communications Inc. and Joel Whitburn's Record Research Inc. Note: Bilboard did not publish R&B Charts between November 30th 1963 and January 23rd 1965. Any R&B Chart without the asterisk are from after the chart's reinstatement.

R&B chart numbers with an asterisk (*) reflect chart positions from Cash Box magazine, a Bilboard competitor at the time. Where different numbers from both trade publications are shown, the lower position from Bilboard reflects the song's chart entry after it had peaked commercially.

Discographical information courtesy of Motown Records Archives.

Primary Sources: The Hitsville Session Logbooks, The Motown Library Tape Filling Card Index, The Motown 45 RPM Record Label Files, The Jobete Music Company Catalog January, 1959 / March 31, 1967.

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Digitally remastered from the original analog single masters by Ellen Fitton at Universal Mastering Studios-East.

With Thanks To: All of the artists and Motown staffers who contributed their memories, and to the Motown Winners' Circle (Chris Jenner, John Lester, Paul Nixon and Andrew Skurow); Bill Levenson, Ritchie Hardin, Martin Hughes and Eric Charge.

Our gratitude to Berry Gordy, the Gordy family, the artists, musicians, engineers, writers, producers, arrangers, handclappers and footstompers at 2468 West Grand Boulevard.

Special thanks to Claudette Robinson.

Photos: Motown Records Archives except pgs. 6-7: courtesy Janie Bradford; Pg. 33: courtesy Lee Alan; Pgs. 69, 82: Chuck Stewart; Pg. 107: Don Paulsen; Single labels and picture sleeves courtesy Lars "LG" Nilsson and Gary Johns; Earl Van Dyke picture sleeve (pg. 84) courtesy John Lester.

(C) 2006 Motown Records, a division of UMG Recordings, Inc.

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Non-release Notes

Edition limited to 8000 non-numbered limited edition copies.

Discs 1-6 corresponds to 16-21 in The Complete Motown Singles series.

All musician credits and additional backing vocals, production, engineering or songwriting credits taken from the track-by-track annotations and essays.

credits

Art Direction – Al Quattrocchi, Michele Horie, Vartan (4)
Artwork By [Art Direction] – Jeff Smith
Compilation Producer – Harry Weinger
Design – Tornado Design
Executive-Producer – Pat Lawrence
Liner Notes [Essay] – Janie Bradford, Todd Boyd
Other [Associate Producer] – Keith Hughes
Other [For Hip-O] – Thane Tierney
Other [Legal Clearance] – Karyn Friedland
Other [Product Manager] – Heather Whitten
Other [Production Manager] – Monique McGuffin
Photography By [Photo Coordinator] – Ryan Null
Remastered By [Digitally] – Ellen Fitton
Research [Tape Vault Research] – Andrew Skurow,

companies

Copyright (c) – Motown Records
Remastered At – Universal Music Studios East, NYC

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