Stormy - Diana Ross & The Supremes (3:06) (from The Never-Before Released Masters - Motown MCD09075MD, 1987).Suspicion - The Originals (3:07) (from This is Northern Soul! The Motown Sound Volume 2 - Motown/Debutante 530 814-2 (U.K.), 1998).Do I Love You (Indeed I Do) - Frank Wilson (2:24) (single A-side - Soul S 35019, 1965).What More Could a Boy Ask For - The Spinners (3:13) (from From the Vaults - Motown M5-190V1, 1979).This Love Starved Heart of Mine (It's Killing Me) - Marvin Gaye (2:42) (from Love Starved Heart: Rare and Unreleased - Motown 314 530 319-2, 1994).The Motown 7s Box: Rare and Unreleased Vinyl (Motown/UMC 534 542-5 (U.K.), 2013)
While it's open to interpretation as to what, if any, true finds exist on the set, many of Motown's best are featured herein on recordings you've never heard before, from The Miracles, The Supremes (a cover of "Funny How Time Slips Away"!), Stevie Wonder (alternate and early takes of "Fingertips" and "Blowin' in the Wind"), The Temptations and even lesser-known acts on the roster, including Labrenda Ben and The Contours.Īfter the jump, you'll find order links and full specs on each of these unique sets. A similar volume from Motown cropped up last year, too.) (Outside the U.S., copyright law governs that recordings not issued within 50 years lapse into public domain, prompting rights holders to quickly issue collections from Bob Dylan to, this week, The Beatles and The Beach Boys. Meanwhile, digital retailers have started carrying Motown Unreleased 1963 another copyright-savvy compilation of Motown outtakes from five decades past. (That original single is, in fact, one of the rarest in the world.) Producer Richard Searling offers track-by-track liner notes on the box, though no official mastering information is supplied.
But perhaps only one of them, Frank Wilson's "Do I Love You (Indeed I Do)," ever made it to vinyl before CD. Recently issued in the U.K., The Motown 7s Box: Rare and Unreleased Vinyl seems to take more of a tack about "tracks unreleased to vinyl" than "never-before-released tracks on vinyl." Everything here has been made available in some way, shape or form, including rare studio cuts from Marvin Gaye, Stevie Wonder, The Supremes, The Four Tops and even David Ruffin, The Spinners and Kim Weston. Motown aficionados have a lot of fun stuff to dig through on a number of formats, with the recent release of a box set collecting 14 rare cuts on vinyl and a new, copyright law-busting compilation of 52 previously unavailable outtakes from some of the label's biggest names.