Vinyl Album - Various Artists - Motown Chartbusters Volume 12 - Motown

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Artist:	Various Artists
Title:	Motown Chartbusters Volume 12
Label:	Motown
Country:	UK
Catalogue:	STML 12164
Date:	Jul 1982
Format:	LP
Collection:	I Own It I Want It
Community:	1 Owns
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Track	Artist	Title	Composer	Rating
A1	Smokey Robinson	Being With You	W. "Smokey" Robinson	Rate
A2	Commodores	Lady (You Bring Me Up)	W. King, H. Hudson, S. King	Rate
A3	Michael Jackson	We're Almost There	B. Holland, E. Holland	Rate
A4	Diana Ross And Lionel Richie	Endless Love	L. Richie	Rate
A5	Rick James	Give It To Me Baby	R. James	Rate
A6	Diana Ross	I'm Coming Out	B. Edwards, N. Rodgers	Rate
A7	Jermaine Jackson	You Like Me Don't You	J. Jackson	Rate
A8	Teena Marie	It Must Be Magic	T. Marie	Rate
A9	Commodores	Oh No	L. Richie	Rate
B1	Michael Jackson	One Day In Your Life	S. Brown III, R. Armand	Rate
B2	Diana Ross	Tenderness	B. Edwards, N. Rodgers	Rate
B3	Smokey Robinson	Tell Me Tomorrow (Pt. 1)	G. Goetzman, M. Piccirillo	Rate
B4	José Feliciano	I Wanna Be Where You Are	T-Boy Ross, L. Ware	Rate
B5	Syreeta	I Must Be In Love	K. Hirsch, M. Mueller	Rate
B6	Commodores	Why You Wanna Try Me	L. Richie, D. Cochrane	Rate
B7	Jermaine Jackson	Paradise In Your Eyes	J. Jackson	Rate
B8	Rick James	Super Freak (Pt. 1)	R. James	Rate
B9	Diana Ross	It's My Turn	M. Masser, C. Bayer Sager	Rate

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Neil Forbes 12th Oct 2015		Yep, not surprising! Like I said, If Astor had "left well enough alone" and not tried to buy the Motown rights off EMI Australia, maybe, just maybe, Astor might've survived beyond 1982.



Record Collector 12th Oct 2015		according to the Astor Label Discography astor folded in 1982



Neil Forbes 12th Oct 2015		Unless I miss my guess, I figure that not long after this LP was issued in Britain, EMI relinquished British rights to Motown. EMI had already lost the Australian rights to Astor. Astor's purchase of Motown sent them broke. Not only did the record division go down the "gurgle-hole"(drain) but the consumer electrical/electronics division followed close behind. Astor went *"Ker-Blooey"*! Should've left well enough alone.



RogerFoster 11th Oct 2015		The 1998 Spectrum/Polygram CD Reissue



Neil Forbes 1st Mar 2015		"One Day In Your Life" had two British issues! The copy I have is on the black Tamla/Motown label and shows 1975 as its publishing/issue date. First issue number was TMG-946. Then in 1981, reissued with a catalogue number thirty places along from the first, that number being TMG-976. First time out in 1975, probably too soon to have any impact, second time out....WHACK! Big Hit!



Record Collector 1st Mar 2015		"One Day in Your Life" is a song recorded by Michael Jackson for his 1975 album, Forever, Michael. Written by Sam Brown and composed by Renée Armand, it was later released in 1981 as a single off the compilation album One Day in Your Life due to the commercial interest that generated from the sales of Jackson's hit 1979 album Off the Wall, even though Jackson released that album on a different label. Jackson and Whitney Houston rehearsed and were meant to perform the song during the 2001 Michael Jackson: 30th Anniversary Special concerts, but for unknown reasons the song was not performed. While a modest US hit, it was a bigger hit in the UK, where it became Jackson's first solo recording to hit No. 1 on the UK Singles Chart. It was number one in the UK for two weeks in June and July 1981.[1] It also topped the Irish Singles Chart, and also featured strongly on the South African singles charts. It was released on the Motown label. It went on to become the sixth best-selling single of 1981 in the UK. Robert Christgau called this song a romantic ballad that is as credible on its "own terms as the rockers."[2] An Allmusic editor highlighted the song on '81 re-release. This was also number one in Australia



Neil Forbes 1st Mar 2015		Fixed, RC? What's fixed?



Record Collector 1st Mar 2015		Fixed



Neil Forbes 1st Mar 2015		RC: "One day in your life I regard as one of his best", As you said back on Boxing Day, last year, RC! You've been eating radishes, matey, you're starting to repeat yourself....repeat yourself....repeat yourself....repeat yourself....repeat yourself....!(ha-ha) But as I commented on the same day, that song, and his other Motown singles far eclipsed anything he did on the lesser label, CBS/Epic.



Neil Forbes 1st Mar 2015		Actually, RC, beyond Vol.7 I hadn't seen that many Chartbusters series issues. I do recall seeing Vol.8, and it had an effect of a "halo" image of a solar eclipse as its cover design, and I think that volume was issued around 1973 or so, but then I never laid eyes on any more volumes after that. It surprises me that the Chartbusters series actually got as far as Vol.12. Just how many volumes were there, exactly? I realise now I commented here on this earlier, but it's been a while since this album had come up. My comments were on "One Day In Your Life" by Michael Jackson. It would be good to see the back cover and labels too. If PhilWill could upload those at some time in the future?



Record Collector 1st Mar 2015		Back in the 1980's I did come across Motown chartbusters but with a different cover design Neil woul know what design I'm referring to



Neil Forbes 26th Dec 2014		Record Collector wrote, re: Michael Jackson - "One day in your life one of his best". I'll agree. A lot of... nay, just about all his Motown work is far superior to anything he's done at CBS-Epic! At least back then he didn't have the(sadly, well-deserved) tag of Whacko Jacko!



Record Collector 26th Dec 2014		One day in your life one of his best



Neil Forbes 26th Dec 2014		My single of One Day In Your Life is the black Tamla/Motown issue, so it will likely be TMG-946. I bought the LP "It's Summer" off the Axis rack at a small electrical and mixed business years ago at Stockton(inner suburb of Newcastle, and oldest too, I hasten to add). I bought the Motown Chartbusters Vol.6 in Newcastle but forget which store. It was a Polygram reissue and I think they only had Volumes 1 to 8 at the time but my collection fell short, ending at Vol.7(the three-reel poker machine cover). When I got Vol.6 I too saw that two tracks had been dropped for the Australian Axis LP. They were: These Things Will Keep Me Loving You(Velvelettes) and Heaven Must Have Sent You(Elgins), both 1966. From Vol.5 the tracks cut were: It's All In The Game(Four Tops), It's Wonderful(Jimmy Ruffin), Abraham, Martin & John(Marvin Gaye) and It's A Shame(Spinners). The first and fourth were 1970, the middle two were 1969. The cover for Vol.5 and "Giants was the same, artwork-wise but just a change in title on the cover was the cosmetic change.



PhilMH 26th Dec 2014		Did a bit more checking, and there WAS a 1975 UK single of "One Day In Your Life" that I had forgotten about (TMG 946), but which didn't chart; however the 1981 reissue (TMG 976) went all the way to #1. I have that IT'S SUMMER lp, I never realised that it was a cut-down CHARTBUSTERS VOL. 6 (unlike MOTOWN GIANTS, it doesn't show the original UK catalogue number in the matrix numbers).



Record Collector 26th Dec 2014		Is this the same motown chartbusters I saw in the record shops back in the 80's ? very good complilations too



Neil Forbes 26th Dec 2014		Hi, Phil. The Brit. issue single of One Day In Your Life is, I suspect, a 1975 vintage(EMI may have issued it as a single BEFORE Motown.... beat them to the punch, as it were, whilst Motown itself might've held back on the track. After all, it was EMI in the UK that pushed Motown into issuing Tears Of A Clown[Smokey & Miracles] as a single in 1970 when Motown were originally going to leave it as an LP track from their 1967 Make It Happen album). As for Chartbusters Vol.5 I have it in both configurations, on CD(issued by Polygram) as Chartbusters 5, and on a pre-Dolby commercial-issue Tamla-Motown cassette as Motown Giants. Four tracks went AWOL from the Chartbuters album to form the Giants album, other than that the sequence of tracks was the same. And Chartbusters Vol.6 turned up here as "It's Summer" on an Axis budget-issue with two tracks missing from the Brit version.



PhilMH 26th Dec 2014		Hi Neil, even though "One Day In Your Life" was a 1975 recording (hence the (P) 1975 on labels), March 1981 (US release date) was the first time that it had been issued on single (M 1512 F), and Motown issued an album with that as the title track at the same time, to cash in on Michael's success at Epic (though this was still pre-THRILLER). Astor released both single and album with the same numbers soon after. As for the EMI-UK manufactured 45 in an RCA sleeve, when RCA took over the Motown license from EMI in October 1981, they also bought EMI's unsold stock, so presumably some just-manufactured singles hadn't yet been put into sleeves. This is the last volume of MOTOWN CHARTBUSTERS. Some of them got issued in Oz, and at least one of them, VOLUME 5, got retitled as MOTOWN GIANTS, cut down to 12 tracks, but still retained the UK cover design, including a couple of acts (Marvin Gaye and The Spinners) whose tracks had been cut out! Phoebe Snow didn't issue her first album (on Shelter) until 1974, so if her 1979 single of "Every Night" on Columbia/CBS is showing 1970, that would have to be the copyright date for Paulie's song, not the record.



Neil Forbes 26th Dec 2014		I have the B1 track as a single(even though it was in an RCA-produced sleeve, the label of the single still credited EMI as manufacturer. The record, One Day In Your Life(Michael Jackson) is shown as from 1975. It showed up in Australia when Astor had bought Motown(and eventually the purchase sent Astor hurtling head-long into that oh-so-familiar wall of bankruptcy)in 1981, which meant it took six years from issue to chart debut. Usually a record might take a couple of years in this situation, they're usually called "sleepers" but this one must've been comatose!, Still, I guess the longest delay between issue and chart debut, the "record"(pun intended - maybe) is held by Phoebe Snow's version of the Paul McCartney composition, Every Night, issued in 1970, chart debut in 1979.....zzzzzzzzzz...huh? P.S. Just how many volumes were there in this Chartbusters series?

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