Product Description:
This 4-CD box set contains a 68-page booklet featuring artist biographies, track-by-track annotations, a historical Motown timeline, musician credits, rare photos and memorabilia from the Motown archives. Also included are essays by Harry Weinger, Janie Bradford, Larry Gabriel, Paul Grein, Elvis Mitchell, David Ritz, Leo Sacks, Allan "Dr. Licks" Slutsky and Adam White.
Engineers include: Mike McClain, Lawrence Horn, Robert Bateman.
Compilation producers: Cary E. Mansfield and Patti Drosins.
This is part of the Motown Master Series.
Entertainment Reviews:
Spin - p.109
"[The] holy grail presenting hits....[With] gospel-choir stompers, raw blues, and ghetto novelties..."
Entertainment Weekly - 12/11/92, p.66
"...the finest Motown collection on the market..." -
Rating: AQ - 2/93, p.89
5 Stars - Indispensable - "...the face of popular music changed for good right here..."
Mojo - p.111
4 stars out of 5 - "It's the most informative and fascinating music document about the label's earliest days you'll ever need."
NME - 3/6/93, p.35
9 - Excellent Plus - "...Strung end to end, it's over 250 minutes of the best jukebox you've ever heard, mastered properly so that it blasts out like it was made yesterday..."
Tracks of Disc 1:
