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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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51 How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved by You) - Walker, Junior & the All-Stars
52 Love's Gone Bad - Clark, Chris [1]
53 You Can't Hurry Love - Supremes
54 Beauty Is Only Skin Deep - Temptations
55 Heaven Must Have Sent You - Elgins [1]
56 Reach Out (I'll Be There) - Four Tops
57 (I Know) I'm Losing You - Temptations
58 Standing in the Shadows of Love - Four Tops
59 It Takes Two - Weston, Kim
60 The Hunter Gets Captured by the Game - Marvelettes, The
61 Jimmy Mack - Martha & the Vandellas
62 Bernadette - Four Tops
63 Ain't No Mountain High Enough - Gaye, Marvin
64 More Love - Robinson, Smokey & the Miracles
65 I Heard It Through the Grapevine - Knight, Gladys & the Pips
66 I Second That Emotion - Robinson, Smokey & the Miracles
67 I Wish It Would Rain - Temptations
68 I Can't Give Back the Love I Feel for You - Wright, Rita
69 Does Your Mama Know About Me - Taylor, Bobby [1]
70 Ain't Nothing Like the Real Thing - Terrell, Tammi
71 Love Child - Ross, Diana
72 For Once in My Life - Wonder, Stevie
73 Cloud Nine - Temptations
74 I Heard It Through the Grapevine - Gaye, Marvin
75 Baby, Baby Don't Cry - Robinson, Smokey & the Miracles
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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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