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This is an old revision of this page, as edited by Doveliezer (talk | contribs) at 20:14, 28 May 2014 (→(From User_talk:Halls4521#H-D-H_songs): Talk piece is about additions to the list. I can't do the edit myself.). The present address (URL) is a permanent link to this revision, which may differ significantly from the current revision.

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It's an ambitious project to gather all Motown and its major sub-labels releases in one page. The question is how to organize such vast collection of titles. By year is one stage. But inside each year's block there has to be some sub-level of classification, such as 'by label'. Or should there exist different pages for the Tamla, Gordy etc releases? And then, for a certain year should the albums be sorted by month release? Another option is to follow the catalog numbers. But they do not always agree with the chronological order. So let's decide on the format of this page. Catalog information can be found in Both Sides Now Album discographies page Zos80 18:16, 14 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I've edited the link to my site (which I didn't add, but which is where all the singles discography information was taken from) to point to the most relevant (index) page. Please don't revert it back! 90.198.51.237 (talk) 14:19, 24 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

(From User_talk:Halls4521#H-D-H_songs)

On the subject of the UK singles (and let me point out at the offset I'm British myself)... I might add a page somewhere on my site with a list of the singles' release dates in the UK (and/or a note on each record's individual page as to when it was released in Britain) but otherwise there didn't seem to be much point, since no Motown material came out in the UK before the US (although a couple of tracks were released as singles in the UK first, most notably The Tears of a Clown and I'm Still Waiting, they'd been available on US albums for ages beforehand).

Oh yeah, and Paul Gayten's "The Hunch" / "Hot Cross Buns" isn't a Motown single - it was released on Anna Records in the US and licensed to London American along with a few of the late-50s/early-60s Motown releases which had also come out on, or been distributed by, Anna in the US. Confusing, I know; up until early 1961, Anna was the bigger label and had much better distribution in the US and internationally, and so a few Motown releases were licensed to Anna for better sales - most notably Money (That's What I Want), which sold a lot more copies on Anna than its limited Tamla release, and Shop Around, which was also reissued for national distribution. 90.198.51.237 (talk) 14:41, 24 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I'm not technically able to do this, but I have 8 vinyl albums not listed here. They are:

6059ML "Can't Slow Down" Lionel Richie copyright date 1983 MS 702 "Greatest Hits, Volume 3" Diana Ross and the Supremes copyright 1969 TS-341S1 "Smokey's Family Robinson" Smokey Robinson copyright 1976 (Tamla) M7-902RI "Natural High" Commodores copyright 1978 2615-S "Diana Ross' Greatest Hits" Diana Ross 1976

compilations: M6-881S1 "Motown's Preferred Stock Stock Option No.1" 1977 M9-937 A2 A-D "20/20 Twenty No.1 Hits From Twenty Years At Motown" 1980 5385MLA "Endless Love Motown's Greatest Love Songs" 1986 my coy says "Promotional Use Only" - maybe it was never released

My reference is that I own vinyl copies of these albums

Barry Wendell (doveliezer) contact me at doveliezer2001@yahoo.com Sorry I don't have the expertise to edit this.

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