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WEST GRAND

Various Artists - A Cellarful Of Motown! …A Northern Soul Love Affair Various Artists

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Genre: Soul.
Format: LP
Condition: Brand New
Release date: Jul 11, 2025
Catalogue number: WG0001LP
Barcode: 0889845987727

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LP - Black Vinyl.West Grand has been set up to mine the deep vaults of mighty Motown courtesy of a licence deal with Universal Music.The first West Grand LP fuses two musical religions, Motown and Northern Soul.In some ways they are unlikely bedfellows.Motown became known as Hitsville by churning out hit after hit, while Northern Soul passion is fired by a constant search for the unknown and the obscure.The 16 tracks here - on incredibly the first Motown various artists vinyl album released worldwide for 40 years - join the dots.All of them were recorded in the 1960s.None of them were released at the time, despite being prime examples of the sublime magic conjured up by Berry Gordy’s genius-like team of singers, writers, producers, arrangers and musicians at that tiny little snakepit of a recording studio on West Grand Boulevard in Detroit.Motown authority Adam White’s album sleeve notes confirm just how productive that studio was.It often ran 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.As a result, lots of the most sublime music ever made was somehow rejected for release.It would have stayed unknown and unloved in tape boxes if it had not been for detective work by Soul aficionados turned detectives.That’s Northern Soul power.Many were DJs and collectors tracking down cassette copies or acetates (some of them found in rubbish skips and about to be destroyed).Others, notably Paul Nixon, the founder of the CD series A Cellarful Of Motown! which inspired this album, badgered the Motown gatekeepers so much they were eventually granted access to the forbidden kingdom.Over recent years all the tracks contained here have been released—some bootlegged, some on legitimate seven-inch issues, some on CD, one download-only.The album proudly boasts debut vinyl release for some in the collection.All have been remastered and have never sounded better.
Track List

A1. Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell - Tears At The End Of A Love Affair
A2. Brenda Holloway - Think It Over (Before You Break My Heart)
A3. Jimmy Ruffin - He Who Picks A Rose
A4. Gladys Knight And The Pips - If You Ever Get Your Hands On Love
A5. The Originals - Suspicion
A6. Barbara McNair - Baby A Go-Go
A7. J. J. Barnes - (Tell Me) Ain't It The Truth
A8. The Funk Brothers - Tell Me It's Just A Rumour Baby

B1. Marvin Gaye - This Love Starved Heart Of Mine (It's Killing Me)
B2. The Monitors - Crying In The Night
B3. Kim Weston - You Hit Me Where It Hurt Me
B4. Carolyn Crawford - Keep Stepping (Never Look Back)
B5. The Contours - Baby Hit And Run (Alternate Vocal)
B6. Tammi Terrell - I Gotta Find A Way To Get You Back
B7. The Spinners - Memories Of Her Love Keep Haunting Me
B8. Chris Clarke - Come On And See Me

Format: LP

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