Vinyl Album - Various Artists - British Motown Chartbusters Vol.2 - Tamla Motown

Vinyl Album

Artist:	Various Artists
Title:	British Motown Chartbusters Vol.2
Label:	Tamla Motown
Country:	UK
Catalogue:	STML 11082
Date:	Oct 1968
Format:	Stereo LP (also Mono LP)
Collection:	I Own It I Want It
Community:	11 Own, 1 Wants
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Track	Artist	Title	Composer	Rating
A1	Marvin Gaye And Tammi Terrell	Ain't Nothing Like The Real Thing	Ashford, Simpson	Rate
A2	Diana Ross And The Supremes	Reflections	Holland, Dozier, Holland	Rate
A3	Smokey Robinson And The Miracles	If You Can Want	Robinson	Rate
A4	Four Tops	You Keep Running Away	Holland, Dozier, Holland	Rate
A5	Temptations	I Could Never Love Another (After Loving You)	Whitfield, Strong, Penzabene	Rate
A6	Gladys Knight And The Pips	I Heard It Through The Grapevine	Whitfield, Strong	Rate
A7	Stevie Wonder	I'm Wondering	Cosby, Wonder, Moy	Rate
A8	Jimmy Ruffin	I've Passed This Way Before	Dean, Weatherspoon	Rate
B1	Diana Ross And The Supremes	Some Things You Never Get Used To	Ashford, Simpson	Rate
B2	R. Dean Taylor	Gotta See Jane	Holland, Miller, Dean Taylor	Rate
B3	Stevie Wonder	Shoo-Be-Doo-Be-Doo-Da-Day	Cosby, Moy, Wonder	Rate
B4	Temptations	You're My Everything	Whitfield, Penzabene, Grant	Rate
B5	Martha Reeves	Honey Chile	Morris, Moy	Rate
B6	Four Tops	If I Were A Carpenter	Hardin	Rate
B7	Smokey Robinson And The Miracles	I Second That Emotion	Robinson, Cleveland	Rate
B8	Marvin Gaye And Tammi Terrell	If I Could Build My Whole World Around You	Fuqua, Bristol, Bullock	Rate

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Comments and Reviews


Neil Forbes 8th Oct 2015		Took a quick look, yep! That's the one, all right! EMI Australia did not issue the entire Chartbusters series, though they did issue this volume. But, as I said other volumes were broken down and "rejigged" into other titles and only a few of the volumes made it to our shores "intact" but we never got anymore after Volume 8. There were a few EMI-issued Australian compilations put out since Chartbusters 8, but EMI Australia, pretty-much did its own thing when it came to Motown.



RogerFoster 8th Oct 2015		Volume 8 certainly did depict an eclipse on the front cover Neil Forbes ... and it has now made its appearance here on 45worlds.



Neil Forbes 8th Oct 2015		You're lucky, RogerFoster. For some odd reason, Polygram in Australia only had Volumes 1 to 7 available here, the other 5 volumes were, seemingly, only available in Britain and Europe. I once saw the original EMI LP issue of Vol.8, and, from memory, the artwork depicted a solar eclipse. I was, until now, totally unaware of Volumes 9 to 12. As I'd said elsewhere, EMI in Australia didn't really make much effort in pushing the Motown product here. Because of this, there were so many albums EPs and singles we never saw or heard here in Australia. We've missed out on so much, whereas EMI in Britain just couldn't get enough of Motown, They'd issue nearly everything that came out of "Hitsville", 2648 West Grand Blvd, Detroit! And they'd put out compilation series like Chartbusters and other "best-of..." albums that'd make our small army of Motown fans here simply drool! We were sorely let down by EMI, and now I see Polygram in Australia has also been a dismal failure in not marketing the entire 12-volume Chartbusters series here.



RogerFoster 8th Oct 2015		Neil Forbes ... Volume 8 certainly did come out on CD during that late 1990s Spectrum/Polydor reissue spree .. as did Volumes 9, 10, 11 and 12 (the series finally ended in 1982). I should know as I have the full set (I seem to recall that they were all being sold at £3.99 in my local Woolworths). I think the entire set were also made available as a box-set.



Record Collector 8th Oct 2015		WOW



Neil Forbes 8th Oct 2015		Some of these "Chartbusters" series LPs were issued locally and in their original 16-track form. I had seen an Australian issue of Vol.3, the rear cover had a roughly 1-inch-wide silver border around it, which is not on the British version(I have the original British LP as well as the CD reissue). Others had been "cut down". Motown Chartbusters Vol.5 had been reduced in tracks(4 tracks deleted) to create "Motown Giants" while Vol.6 had some deletions and one or two different tracks added, plus new cover artwork to become "It's Summer", issued on the Axis label.



Record Collector 8th Oct 2015		I seen this at a local op shop yes a Australian issue



Neil Forbes 8th Oct 2015		As I'd stated about another of these(Vol.1, I think), Polygram re-issued these on CD in the 1990s, I have Volumes 1 to 7 but never saw a any trace of Volume 8 on CD. For the most part it was only the front cover artwork that was replicated in the "booklet"(front cover). From Volume 3 onwards, the "British" tag was dropped and the rest of the series was simply Motown Chartbusters!



TopPopper 7th Oct 2015		It seems we have the same photo on the stereo and mono pressings - can we be absolutely certain there's no minute differences on the front? Hopefully in due course, we'll have a set of images for the stereo one too. Nice set of albums, these.

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UK - Tamla Motown - 1968 [Mono]