Compiled by former Wigan Casino DJ Richard Searling, A Cellarful of Motown is a
truly astonishing 40-track collection featuring 39 previously unreleased
60s cuts plucked from Hitsville’s archives. It’s simply mind boggling
that only one of these stunning tracks Jnr Walker’s “Riding High on Love” received an official release at the time. Incredibly, the others
flunked Motown’s weekly “quality control” meetings and were consigned to
the vaults. Surely no other label in the history of popular music is
blessed with such a boundless provision of timeless nuggets.Each gem here has been fastidiously restored from the original master
tapes, so although many of these tunes were available as vinyl bootlegs
on the northern soul scene they are generally poorly pressed with
inferior sound quality. This, then, is the compilation that Motown
collectors have feverishly anticipated for years. It’s almost impossible
to pick standouts as the quality throughout is eye rotatingly
brilliant, however, celestial moments include Barbara McNair’s
infectious frugger “Baby A-Go-Go”, Earl Van Dyke’s exhilarating
instrumental stampede through “He Was Really Sayin’ Something”, and one
of the biggest northern soul discoveries of recent years, Gladys
Knight’s phenomenal “If You Ever Get Your Hands on Love”. I truly cant pick a fave as their all fantastic in my book.This is an
absolutely essential purchase/must have for anyone even remotely interested in
soul music....and 4 more volumes to come!
AMM
The Tasters!
19 comments:
Really a fantastic collection this must be, thank you AMM!
Thank you AMM for this collection. It is indeed amazing the amount of material at the music producing company. Thanks for the review and the tracks. Thanks AMM.
Lucky lucky me to be a member of this fine community! 😎
Thanks, AMM!
Awesome Album AMM,Thank You Very Much
Fantastic collection, thank you AMM for the review
A great compilation, which I can recommend to anyone. Thanks for review, P.
Thanks AMM. Nice excavation job.
Fantastic collection thanks for the review AMM.
Cool collection, thanks for the review ✌🏻☀️☮️
Detroit rules!
Oddly enough I have Vols 2-5 but not Vol 1, so looking forward to filling the gap.
much appreciated upgrades and booklets thank you so much AMM
I certainly also can recommend this to all players a great start to this Motown set Great review AMM
Cheers Pedro
A must-have collection
Many thanks AMM for an upgrade to flac of this fine comp
Reb
Thanks AMM appreciated great review
excellent review - thank you mate!
Great to see this collection reviewed !
Many thanks for the info
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