The Funk Brothers were a group of Detroit-based session musicians who performed the backing to most Motown recordings from 1959 until the company moved to Los Angeles in 1972.
The Supremes A' Go-Go is the ninth studio album released by Motown singing group the Supremes. It was the first album by an all-female group to reach number-one on the Billboard 200 album charts in the United States.
Motown 25:Yesterday,Today,Forever is a 1983 television special,produced by Suzanne de Passe for Motown,to commemorate its 25th anniversary. The program was taped before a live audience at the Pasadena Civic Auditorium in Pasadena,California on March 25,1983,and broadcast on NBC on May 16. Among its highlights were Michael Jackson's performance of "Billie Jean",Smokey Robinson's reunion with the Miracles,a Temptations / Four Tops "battle of the bands",Marvin Gaye's inspired speech about black music history and his memorable performance of "What's Going On",a Jackson 5 reunion,and an abbreviated reunion of Diana Ross &the Supremes,who performed their final #1 hit,"Someday We'll Be Together" from 1969. The show was written by Buz Kohan,Ruth Robinson,and de Passe. The broadcast was watched by over 47 million viewers.
"I Can't Help Myself" is a 1965 song recorded by the Four Tops for the Motown label.
The Supremes is a 2000 box set compilation of the material by Motown's most popular act of the 1960s,The Supremes. The set covers The Supremes' entire recording history,from its first recordings as The Primettes in 1960 to its final recordings in 1976.
"The Tears of a Clown" is a song written by Hank Cosby,Smokey Robinson,and Stevie Wonder and originally recorded by Smokey Robinson &the Miracles for the Tamla Records label subsidiary of Motown,first appearing on the 1967 album Make It Happen. The track was re-released in the United Kingdom as a single in July 1970,and it became a number-one hit on the UK Singles Chart for the week ending September 12,1970. Subsequently,Motown released a partially re-recorded and completely remixed version as a single in the United States as well,where it quickly became a number-one hit on both the Billboard Hot 100 and R&B Singles charts.
Marvin Gaye at the Copa is a live album recorded at the exclusive New York club,the Copacabana,where singer Marvin Gaye performed in August 1966,over a year following The Supremes' 1965 performance there. Marvin was only one of just a few R&B musicians after Sam Cooke and Jackie Wilson to perform at the club where performers such as Sammy Davis Jr.,Nat King Cole and Frank Sinatra had performed at regularly. Marvin was the next act from Berry Gordy's fabled Motown label after the Supremes to perform at the nightclub and would be followed by The Temptations in 1968 and Martha and the Vandellas that same year. According to the liner notes later on,Marvin's performance there was a success,however,an ongoing feud between Gaye and his brother-in-law,Motown recording boss Gordy,was said to have been one of the reasons why the album was eventually shelved with the duo fighting over how the album was to be produced. The album had been scheduled for release in January 1967 as Tamla 273 before its permanent shelving. In 2005,Hip-O Select Records,a Motown-associated label created to re-release or release unreleased material from Motown's vaults re-mastered sessions from this album and released it that year.
An Evening with Diana Ross is a 1977 live double album released by American singer Diana Ross on the Motown label. It was recorded live at the Ahmanson Theatre in Los Angeles in December 1976 during the international tour of Ross' one-woman show,for which she was awarded a special Tony Award after the show's run at Broadway's Palace Theater,followed by an Emmy-nominated TV special of the same name. It marked the first time in history a solo female headlined a 90-minute TV special. The album reached #29 in the USA . The album showcased her live performances for the second time as a solo performer,following 1974's Live At Caesars Palace. It was the last live album Ross released until 1989's Greatest Hits Live.
Diana Ross &the Supremes:Greatest Hits Vol. 3 is a 1969 compilation album by Diana Ross &the Supremes,released on the Motown label. It features all of the hits released by the group between 1967 and 1969 save for the Supremes/Temptations duet singles. After Florence Ballard's mid-1967 departure from the group,Supremes singles were recorded by Diana Ross with session singers The Andantes on backgrounds instead of new Supreme Cindy Birdsong and founding member Mary Wilson,including "Love Child" and "Someday We'll Be Together".
Make It Happen is a 1967 album by Smokey Robinson &the Miracles. It featured ballads such as the hit singles "The Love I Saw in You Was Just a Mirage" and "More Love",as well as the up-tempo "The Tears of a Clown" co-written by Stevie Wonder and his producer Hank Cosby.
Anthology,also known as Anthology:The Best of Diana Ross and the Supremes,first released in May 1974,is a series of same or similarly titled compilation albums by The Supremes. Motown released revised versions in 1986,1995 and 2001. In its initial version,a 35-track triple record collection of hits and rare material,the album charted at No. 24 on Billboard's "Black Albums" and No. 66 on "Pop Albums".
Get Ready is the seventh studio album by Australian pop vocal group Human Nature and third in their series Motown covers release. It was released on 17 November 2007.
Anthology is the first compilation album by American rhythm and blues group The Miracles. It was released in 1974 by Motown Records.
1957–1972 is a 1972 double album by The Miracles on Motown Records' Tamla label. This two-record set is noted as the group's final series of live concerts with original lead singer Smokey Robinson,recorded over a period of three days,July 14–16,during the 1972 National Parks Centennial,at the Carter Barron Amphitheater in Washington,D.C.,and charted at No. 75 on the Billboard Top 200 Album chart,and at No. 14 on its R&B Album chart. During the show,Smokey's wife,original Miracles member Claudette Rogers Robinson,who stopped touring with the group in 1964,reunited with the Miracles on stage for the first time in eight years. As a celebration of the group's fifteen years together,The Miracles made this an "all request" show,where audience members could choose which of the group's long string of hits they wanted performed. Also,at the end of the concert,Miracles fans were introduced to the group's new lead singer,Billy Griffin. According to Smokey's autobiography,Smokey:Inside My Life,The Miracles' final concert was videotaped in movie form,but was never publicly released. However,1957–1972 was released on CD originally in 1990,and re-released again in 2004 along with The Miracles' 1969 "Live" album in the 2004 Motown/Hip-O Select release Smokey Robinson and The Miracles:The Live Collection.
The Motor City Collection is a box set by Australian pop vocal group Human Nature,which was issued on 19 April 2008 and peaked at No. 18 on the ARIA Albums Chart. It comprises three CDs of cover versions by the band of Motown artists' material and a live DVD.
Longplay Album –Volume II is the second album by the Dutch soundalike studio group Stars on 45,released on the CNR Records label in the Netherlands in August 1981. In the US,the album was retitled Stars on Long Play II,released on Atlantic Records' sublabel Radio Records and credited to 'Stars On'. In the UK,Ireland,Australia and New Zealand,the album was listed as Stars on 45 Volume 2 or Stars on 45 –The Album –Volume 2,credited to 'Starsound' and issued on CBS Records. Just like the first Stars on 45 album Longplay Album –Volume II was also officially released in the Eastern Bloc by state-owned czechoslovak label Opus,credited to Stars On 45 but under the title Stars on 45 –Volume II. In the Philippines,it was released under the title More Stars! Stars on 45 Volume Two or Stars on 45 Long Play Album - Volume 2.
Motown Chartbusters is a series of compilation albums first released by EMI under licence on the Tamla Motown label in Britain. In total,12 editions were released in the UK between 1967 and 1982. Volumes 1 and 2 were originally called British Motown Chartbusters;after this the title Motown Chartbusters was used.
Let the Music Play:Supreme Rarities 1960-1969 is a 2-CD set of The Supremes music released by Hip-O Records on March 25,2008.
20 Golden Greats is a 1977 compilation album by Diana Ross &the Supremes,released on the Motown label in the United Kingdom. The release spent seven weeks at number one on the UK Albums Chart,selling over 1,000,000 copies. Despite the album's title and that Ross &the Supremes had scored 21 UK chart hit singles,the compilation included two tracks that had never been hit singles in the UK:"My World Is Empty Without You" and "Love Is Like an Itching in My Heart",which were top 10 hits on the US Hot 100. All the other 18 tracks had made the UK singles chart. The three other hits scored by the group in partnership with The Temptations,were all excluded.
Grand River Crossings is an album of songs associated with or inspired by Detroit and Motown by pianist Geri Allen recorded in 2012 and released on the Motéma label in 2013.
