Release Info

Motown Records was a veritable hit-producing machine in the 1960s, and anthologies of the label’s successes are everywhere and easily found. What makes the compilation series called Motown Chartbusters a little different, though, is that each volume includes a handful of obscurities that didn’t exactly end up big hits -- through no fault of their own. Still, it’s the hits the really lift things and set off the feel-good nostalgia bells. This box combines the first three volumes of the Motown Chartbusters series, and includes the classics “(I Know) I’m Losing You” by the Temptations, Stevie Wonder's “I Was Made to Love Her,” Marvin Gaye's “I Heard It Through the Grapevine,” Smokey Robinson's “I Second That Emotion” and “The Tracks of My Tears,” and Junior Walker's “(I’m A) Road Runner,” to name just a few. ~ Steve Leggett

Tracks

1. Blowin' in the Wind - Wonder, Stevie
2. You Keep Me Hangin' On - Ross, Diana & the Supremes
3. Standing in the Shadow Of Love - Four Tops
4. It Takes Two - Weston, Kim
5. When You're Young and in Love - Marvelettes
6. (I Know) I'm Losing You - Temptations
7. What Becomes of the Broken Hearted - Ruffin, Jimmy
8. The Happening - Ross, Diana & the Supremes
9. 7 Rooms of Gloom - Four Tops
10. How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved by You) - Walker, Junior & the All-Stars
11. I'm Ready for Love - Reeves, Martha & The Vandellas
12. Love Is Here and Now You're Gone - Ross, Diana & the Supremes
13. Gonna Give Her All the Love I've Got - Ruffin, Jimmy
14. I Was Made to Love Her - Wonder, Stevie
15. Take Me in Your Arms and Love Me - Knight, Gladys & the Pips
16. Jimmy Mack - Reeves, Martha & The Vandellas

1. Ain't Nothing Like the Real Thing - Terrell, Tammi
2. Reflections - Ross, Diana & the Supremes
3. If You Can Wait - Robinson, Smokey & the Miracles
4. You Keep Running Away - Four Tops
5. I Cold Never Love Another (After Loving You) - Temptations
6. I Heard It Through the Grapevine - Knight, Gladys & the Pips
7. I'm Wondering - Wonder, Stevie
8. I've Passed This Way Before - Ruffin, Jimmy
9. Some Things You Never Get Used To - Ross, Diana & the Supremes
10. Gotta See Jane - Taylor, R. Dean
11. Shoo-Be-Doo-Be-Doo-Da-Day - Wonder, Stevie
12. You're My Everything - Temptations
13. Honey Chile - Reeves, Martha & The Vandellas
14. If I Were a Carpenter - Four Tops
15. I Second That Emotion - Robinson, Smokey & the Miracles
16. If I Could Build My Whole World Around You - Terrell, Tammi

1. I Heard It Through the Grapevine - Gaye, Marvin
2. I'm Gonna Make You Love Me - Temptations
3. My Cherie Amour - Wonder, Stevie
4. This Old Heart of Mine (Is Weak for You) - Isley Brothers
5. I'll Pick a Rose for My Rose - Johnson, Marv
6. No Matter What Sign You Are - Ross, Diana & the Supremes
7. I'm In a Different World - Four Tops
8. Dancing in the Street - Reeves, Martha & The Vandellas
9. For Once in My Life - Wonder, Stevie
10. You're All I Need to Get By - Terrell, Tammi
11. Get Ready - Temptations
12. Stop Her on Sight (SOS) - Starr, Edwin
13. Love Child - Ross, Diana & the Supremes
14. Behind a Painted Smile - Isley Brothers
15. (I'm A) Road Runner - Walker, Junior & the All-Stars
16. The Tracks of My Tears - Robinson, Smokey & the Miracles