Motown's Chart Topping hits the Number 1's

MOTOWN’S CHART-TOPPING HITS ON Motown Number 1’s and
Motown Number 1’s: Vol. 2, and Number 1’s Collections From DIANA ROSS & THE SUPREMES, Marvin Gaye and The Temptations


Motown has been home to some of the greatest artists in history and many of the most popular songs ever recorded. Now the best of the best has been collected on four Motown/UMe albums in the new and ongoing Number 1’s series from UMe, each released April 3, 2007 in a ground-breaking, environmentally-friendly packaging format. A first for the music industry, the standard package (both sleeve and tray) will be completely paper-recyclable.

Motown Number 1’s Vol. 2 follows its 2004 best-selling Motown Number 1’s. Together they offer 47 No. 1 hits, songs that topped the Pop, R&B, Dance/Disco and/or Adult Contemporary industry charts. The sequel opens with the label’s first R&B #1: “Shop Around” from The Miracles.

The Supremes are also here with the most selections: “Baby Love,” “You Can’t Hurry Love” and “Someday We’ll Be Together.” The Sixties are also represented by “Do You Love Me” from The Contours, “I Second That Emotion” from Smokey Robinson & The Miracles, “You’re All I Need To Get By” from Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell, “What Does It Take (To Win Your Love)” from Jr. Walker & The All Stars and “I Can’t Get Next To You” from the Temptations.

The Temptations are heard in the Seventies with “Just My Imagination (Running Away With Me).” The Jackson 5 chime in with “ABC” and “I’ll Be There”; former Temptation Eddie Kendricks with “Keep On Truckin’ (Pt. 1)”; Stevie Wonder with “Signed, Sealed, Delivered I’m Yours”; Gladys Knight & The Pips with “If I Were Your Woman” and Gaye with “Got To Give It Up (Pt. 1),” which zoomed to No. 1 on three major charts – Pop, R&B and Dance. Supremes diva Diana Ross hit No. 1 in the Eighties with “Upside Down.” Other No. 1’s from that decade are Lionel Richie’s “All Night Long (All Night),” Rick James’ “Give It To Me Baby,” the Dazz Band’s “Let It Whip” and the Commodores’ “Nightshift.” The most recent track is 1994’s “On Bended Knee,” from Boyz II Men.

The original Motown Number 1’s, now reissued in the new eco-pak, kicks off with Motown’s debut Pop #1: Please Mr. Postman” by The Marvelettes. The Sixties also yield “(Love Is Like A) Heat Wave” (Martha & The Vandellas), “My Guy” (Mary Wells) and “My Girl” and “Ain’t Too Proud To Beg” (The Temptations). The Supremes contribute “Where Did Our Love Go” and “Stop! In The Name Of Love,” while the Four Tops’ No. 1’s include “I Can’t Help Myself (Sugar Pie Honey Bunch)” and “Reach Out, I’ll Be There.” The decade also adds “Uptight (Everything’s Alright)” (Wonder), “I Want You Back” (Jackson 5), “Shotgun” (Jr. Walker & The All Stars) and Marvin’s “I Heard It Through The Grapevine” and, with Tammi, “Ain’t Nothing Like The Real Thing.”

From the Seventies are Gaye’s “What’s Going On” and “Let’s Get It On”; “The Tears Of A Clown” (Smokey Robinson & The Miracles), “Love Machine (Part 1)” (The Miracles); “War” (Edwin Starr), “Don’t Leave Me This Way” (Thelma Houston), also No. 1 across three charts; and “Three Times A Lady” (Commodores). The lone Eighties selection is the Richie-Ross duet “Endless Love,” No. 1 for more than two months. From the Nineties is “I’ll Make Love To You” (Boyz II Men) and from 2003 is Michael McDonald’s rendition of “Ain’t No Mountain High Enough.”

For Marvin Gaye – Number 1’s, highlights include “Let’s Get It On,” “What’s Going On,” “Ain’t Nothing Like The Real Thing,” “You’re All I Need To Get By,” “I Heard It Through The Grapevine” and “Got To Give It Up (Pt. 1).” Also included are Marvin’s huge comeback hit, “Sexual Healing,” plus more of his Sixties No. 1’s, “Too Busy Thinking About My Baby,” “Ain’t That Peculiar” and “I’ll Be Doggone.” From the Seventies, his other No. 1’s are “Inner City Blues (Make Me Wanna Holler),” “Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology)” and “I Want You.” There’s more too: as bonus tracks, the collection includes his smash No. 2 hits, from the solo singles, “Pride And Joy” and “That’s The Way Love Is,” to his duets with Tammi Terrell, “If I Could Build My Whole World Around You” and “Your Precious Love.”

The Temptations – Number 1’s features an astonishing 20 No. 1 hits, encompassing more 30 years of hits from the group. “My Girl” is here of course, plus from the Sixties the smash hits “I Can’t Get Next To You,” “Ain’t Too Proud To Beg,” “The Way You Do The Things You Do,” “Get Ready,” “Beauty Is Only Skin Deep,” “(I Know) I’m Losing You,” “You’re My Everything,” “I Wish It Would Rain,” “I’m Gonna Make You Love Me” (with Diana Ross & The Supremes), “I Could Never Love Another (After Loving You)” and “Run Away Child, Running Wild.”

From the Seventies are “Ball Of Confusion (That’s What The World Is Today),” “Just My Imagination (Running Away With Me),” “Papa Was A Rollin’ Stone,” “Masterpiece,” “Let Your Hair Down,” “Happy People” (missing from previous Tempts collections) and “Shakey Ground.” The collection concludes with “Stay,” the group’s 1998 return to the top of the charts.

Additionally, UMe is re-releasing in the eco-pak the successful Diana Ross & The Supremes – Number 1’s collection, first released in 2003: 23 era-defining tracks, 15 from the Motown group, from “Where Did Our Love Go” through “Stoned Love” (with Jean Terrell replacing Ms. Ross); plus eight more from Ms. Ross solo, from “Ain’t No Mountain High Enough” through Endless Love” with Lionel Richie. Included is a bonus track, the Almighty Mix of “You Keep Me Hangin’ On.”


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Available Titles:

James Brown - Number 1’s
Marvin Gaye - Number 1’s
Diana Ross & The Supremes - Number 1’s
Temptations - Number 1’s
Motown Number 1’s
Motown Number 1’s Volume 2
Love Songs Number 1’s
Jazz Number 1’s
Country Number 1’s
Dance Number 1’s
Soundtrack Smashes Number 1’s
60s Pop Number 1’s
70s Pop Number 1’s
80s Pop Number 1’s
60s Soul Number 1’s
70’s Soul Number 1’s
80’s Soul Number 1’s
90s Soul Number 1’s

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