All tracks produced by Brian Holland and Lamont Dozier except
Track 4 by William Stevenson and Ivy Jo Hunter
Tracks 8 and 24 produced by Ivy Jo Hunter
Track 12 produced by Holland, Dozier & R. Dean Taylor
Track 14 produced by Johnny Bristol
Track 15 produced by Tony Clarke
Tracks 16-18 produced by Frank Wilson
October 7, 1997 is the US release date from October 1997 ICE Newsletter and Universal Music Enterprises. Amazon UK says 10th August 1998 for the UK release, which seems unusually late, but Amazon could be wrong (they are pretty good on most dates, but not infallible). I have just checked the barcode on my copy of the US issue, and it is the same as the one in plerner's comment, so we can probably keep all editions on this page and make it "International". plerner, can you just confirm the format of the catalogue number on the UK edition, as I think US PolyGram did them differently from UK/Europe at this time - I suspect the UK number might be written as 530 825-2.
My impression is that the black and white cover is a UK release. There are loads in this series by a host of Motown acts (some are called "The Essential Collection", some "The Ultimate Collection"). The other edition I'm not sure about, but if it's US, then they wouldn't belong on the same page.
No, the label is definitely Motown. But I'll bow the Moderators' views as to whether it should be a separate entry (I just didn't want to repeat all the track details unless I really had to!)