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Artist:Various Artists
Title:Motown Chartbusters Volume 12
Label:  Motown
Country:UK
Catalogue:STML 12164
Date:Jul 1982
Format:LP
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Community: 1 Owns
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TrackArtistTitleComposerRating
A1Smokey RobinsonBeing With YouW. "Smokey" RobinsonRate
A2CommodoresLady (You Bring Me Up)W. King, H. Hudson, S. KingRate
A3Michael JacksonWe're Almost ThereB. Holland, E. HollandRate
A4Diana Ross And Lionel RichieEndless LoveL. RichieRate
A5Rick JamesGive It To Me BabyR. JamesRate
A6Diana RossI'm Coming OutB. Edwards, N. RodgersRate
A7Jermaine JacksonYou Like Me Don't YouJ. JacksonRate
A8Teena MarieIt Must Be MagicT. MarieRate
A9CommodoresOh NoL. RichieRate
B1Michael JacksonOne Day In Your LifeS. Brown III, R. ArmandRate
B2Diana RossTendernessB. Edwards, N. RodgersRate
B3Smokey RobinsonTell Me Tomorrow (Pt. 1)G. Goetzman, M. PiccirilloRate
B4José FelicianoI Wanna Be Where You AreT-Boy Ross, L. WareRate
B5SyreetaI Must Be In LoveK. Hirsch, M. MuellerRate
B6CommodoresWhy You Wanna Try MeL. Richie, D. CochraneRate
B7Jermaine JacksonParadise In Your EyesJ. JacksonRate
B8Rick JamesSuper Freak (Pt. 1)R. JamesRate
B9Diana RossIt's My TurnM. Masser, C. Bayer SagerRate


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Comments and Reviews
 
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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