Magazine:
UNCUT

Label:
Motown

Take 88, september 2004

15 tracks, 48:18

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"The Sound Of Young America" was the slogan Berry Gordy coined for his label in the'60s when Tamla Motown created a soundtrack that changed the face of rnusic. Here Uncut presents some of the most potent tracks by the greatest artists in Motown's history - Martha & The Vandellas, Diana Ross &The Supremes, Smokey Robinson &The Miracles, Marvin Gaye, The Temptations, and The Four Tops. But we also include cult recordings by some of Motown's lesser lights, such as Barbara Randolph and Barbara McNair.

Most of these tracks were recorded in the tiny downstairs studio at 2648 West Grand Boulevard in Detroit, the "Motor City" that gave the label its name. It was from this modest white house - " Hitsville USA", as Gordy dubbed it - that he and his team of writers, producers and artists set about creating the most thrilling hit machine the world has ever seen. Prominent in that team were Holland-Dozier-Holland, who wrote more hits than The Beatles and the Stones combined. Four of their songs are featured here. Then there was Norman Whitfield, the man who in the late '60s moved Motown into the new era with psychedelic soul, represented here by The Temptations and Undisputed Truth. Then there were the musicians. Known as The Funk Brothers, they were the best house band in the world and can be heard on most of the tracks here recorded before 1972, when Gordy moved the label to LA.

After the move, the sound and spirit of Motown changed. But the hits kept on coming, and the post-Detroit period is represented among these 15 tracks by such second-generation Motown performers as Teena Marie and the Dazz Band.
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