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Hitsville USA: The Motown Singles Collection
Various Artists:  Hitsville USA: The Motown Singles Collection

$27.96 4-CD Set
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Released: 1993
Label: Motown
Selection #: 207000
Definitive set includes 104 songs by The Supremes, Marvin Gaye, Smokey Robinson, Jackson 5, Four Tops and many others.
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26 Baby Love - Supremes
27 Come See About Me - Supremes
28 How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved by You) - Gaye, Marvin
29 My Girl - Temptations
30 He Was Really Sayin' Somethin' - Velvelettes, The
31 Ask the Lonely - Four Tops
32 Shotgun - Walker, Junior & the All-Stars
33 Nowhere to Run - Martha & the Vandellas
34 When I'm Gone - Holloway, Brenda
35 Ooo Baby Baby - Miracles
36 I Can't Help Myself (Sugar Pie, Honey Bunch) - Four Tops
37 First I Look at the Purse - Contours, The
38 The Tracks of My Tears - Miracles
39 It's the Same Old Song - Four Tops
40 Love (Makes Me Do Foolish Things) - Martha & the Vandellas
41 Take Me in Your Arms (Rock Me a Little While) - Weston, Kim
42 Uptight (Everything's Alright) - Wonder, Stevie
43 Don't Mess with Bill - Marvelettes, The
44 Darling Baby - Elgins [1]
45 This Old Heart of Mine (Is Weak for You) - Isley Brothers
46 Greetings (This Is Uncle Sam) - Monitors [1]
47 Shorty Long - Long, Shorty [1]
48 (I'm A) Road Runner - Walker, Junior & the All-Stars
49 Ain't Too Proud to Beg - Temptations
50 What Becomes of the Brokenhearted - Ruffin, Jimmy
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Album Review

Instead of following Stax/Volt's pattern and delivering an exhaustive box set containing all of their singles, Motown decided to limit their singles box, "Hitsville USA: The Motown Singles Collection 1959-1971", to four discs that concentrated on the hits. There are a handful of wonderful lesser-known songs here, such as the Contours' "First I Look At The Purse," but the main strength of the 103-track box is that it features all of the biggest songs from Motown's golden era in one place. Collectors could have used a more comprehensive set, and the box itself could have been packaged with a little more care (there are no artists listed on the back of the individual discs, only songs), but "Hitsville USA" stands as a definitive overview and introduction to one of the most groundbreaking labels in pop music history. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All Music Guide

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