Tamla - Latest Updates

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Comment by arjayvee SUBS:

Added label variants and large, hi-res scans of front and back covers.

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Comment by johnnyhotspur:

Track A4 was a tape swappers favourite on the NS scene. Once covered up as 'Situation Desperate'

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Comment by mleg56:

The Marvelettes a.k.a. The Pink Album is a 1967 album
by American vocal group The Marvelettes, also their seventh LP.
Recording for The Pink Album began in 1966. While Smokey Robinson
handled much of the production, there is also production from
James Dean and William Weatherspoon

credits:

Gladys Horton- Lead and background vocals.
Wanda Young- Lead and background vocals.
Katherine Anderson- background vocals.
The Andantes- background vocals
Smokey Robinson- Producer
Norman Whitfield- Producer
Brian Holland- Producer
Lamont Dozier- Producer
James Dean- Producer
William Weatherspoon- Producer
The Funk Brothers- Instrumentation
Recorded Hitsville USA; 1966-1967

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Comment by arjayvee SUBS:

Added label variants.

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Comment by johnnyhotspur:

RD
I'd go by what is on the LP/label rather than the youtube video.

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Comment by RecordDragon:

Was there a title change, or just an error when the video for track B5 was posted? Title on the video is "Tonight Was Made For Love" as opposed to what is on the label.

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Comment by RecordDragon:

Entire stereo LP including the alternative version of track B4 (as opposed to the B-side mono version)

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Comment by johnnyhotspur:

I've just realised that track B4 'Keep Off, No Trespassing' is an alternate take to the 45.
Different start among other things, slightly slower tempo and clocks in at 2.34.
The 45 and mono LP clock in at 2.38.

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Comment by arjayvee SUBS:

Added scans of label variants and back cover.

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Comment by johnnyhotspur:

Track A3 'The Hunter Gets Captured By The Game' clocks in at 2.38, it registers 2.47 on the mono album and the 45.
Apparently an extra verse on those but not on this stereo LP.

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Comment by mleg56:

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Comment by mleg56:

notes:
Easy is an album recorded by Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell,
and released by Motown Records on September 16, 1969
under the Tamla Records label. One song on the album,
"Good Lovin' Ain't Easy To Come By", was a hit single and
remains popular to this day.

credits:
Marvin Gaye – lead vocals
Valerie Simpson – lead vocals with additional background vocals
Tammi Terrell – lead vocals with additional background vocals
The Originals – background vocals
The Andantes – background vocals
The Spinners – background vocals
The Funk Brothers – instrumentation

Recorded 1969
Studio Hitsville, USA, Detroit, Michigan

Producer
Nickolas Ashford and Valerie Simpson,
Harvey Fuqua, Johnny Bristol

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Comment by arjayvee SUBS:

Added label variants.

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Comment by mleg56:

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Comment by mleg56:

What's Going On is the eleventh studio album by soul musician
Marvin Gaye, released May 21, 1971, on the Motown-subsidiary
label Tamla Records. Recording sessions for the album took
place in June 1970 and March–May 1971 at Hitsville U.S.A.,
Golden World and United Sound Studios in Detroit and at The
Sound Factory in West Hollywood, California.
What's Going On was the first album on which Motown Records'
main studio band, the group of session musicians known as
the Funk Brothers, received an official credit.

credits:

Recorded June–September 1970; March–May 1971
Hitsville U.S.A.
Golden World
United Sound Studios
(Detroit, Michigan)
The Sound Factory
(West Hollywood, California)

Alto Saxophone – Angelo Carlisi
Art Direction – Curtis McNair
Artwork [Graphic Supervision] – Tom Schlesinger
Backing Vocals – Andantes, The, Elgie Stover,
Lem Barney, Mel Farr, Bobby Rodgers*
Baritone Saxophone – Tate Houston
Bass – Bob Babbit*, James Jamerson
Bass [String Bass] – Max Janowsky
Bongos – Earl DeRouen, Eddie Brown*
Celesta [Celeste] – Johnny Griffith
Cello – Edward Korkigian, Italo Babini, Thaddeus Markiewicz
Conductor, Arranged By – David Van DePitte
Congas – Earl DeRouen, Eddie Brown*
Drums – Chet Forest
Flute – Dayna Hartwick, William Perich
Guitar – Joe Messina, Robert White
Harp – Carole Crosby
Liner Notes – Marvin Gaye
Percussion – Jack Ashford
Piano – Marvin Gaye
Producer – Marvin Gaye
Soloist, Alto Saxophone – Eli Fountain*
Soloist, Tenor Saxophone – William "Wild Bill" Moore
Soprano Saxophone – Larry Nozero
Tambourine – Jack Ashford
Tenor Saxophone – George Benson (2)
Trombone – Carl Raetz
Trumpet – John Trudell*, Maurice Davis
Vibraphone [Vibes] – Jack Brokensha
Viola – David Ireland, Edouard Kesner, Meyer Shapiro, Nathan Gordon
Violin – Alvin Score, Beatriz Budinszky*, Felix Resnick,
Gordon Staples, James Waring, Lillian Downs, Richard Margitza,
Virginia Halfmann, Zinovi Bistritzky

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Comment by Bgray1:

Added label variant images.

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Comment by arjayvee SUBS:

Back cover incorrectly lists a repeat of Side 1's "I Know How It Feels" as Side 2's Track 5. It is actually "Whisper" as the label correctly states.

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Comment by mleg56:

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Comment by arjayvee SUBS:

With a nod to cussincarryinon02, added larger, hi-res scan of cover without price sticker.

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Comment by Bgray1:

Fourth label variant images added.

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Comment by Upsetter FC:

Latin genre is me. Looks like I got this one accidently while tagging my latin LPs. Mod correction sent.

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Comment by PhilMH:

"Latin"??? Very odd! And, re pudgym's comment from 2016, that 23-CD set didn't have any licensed material, so nothing from Teenage, Mark-X, Gone, Cindy, Atlantic, Wand or United Artists either, all of which plus the Motown tracks would have added at least another five CDs to the set, so Sony quite reasonably decided to restrict the box to the recordings that they own; they probably should have included the two Isley-Jasper-Isley albums though, as they were issued via CBS.

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Comment by edlongus SUBS ●:

I see the genre here is currently being shown as Latin (?!?)

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Comment by johnnyhotspur:

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