Hard To Find Motown Classics

25 Hard-To-Find Motown Classics is a compilation CD released by Motown in 1986, and this is the third volume. A wide range of artists offering soulful classics.

"Baby It's Me" has been called one of Diana Ross's best albums, although it's been very hard to find over the years. This rerelease of the original 1977 album has been expanded to include remixes, alternate vocal takes and four bonus tracks recorded for the album yet left in the vaults. Among those bonus tracks is a cover of Peter Frampton's hit "Baby, I Love Your Way".

Sixto Diaz Rodriguez, known professionally as Rodriguez (born July 10, 1942), is an American singer-songwriter from Detroit, Michigan. His music career initially proved disappointing in the United States, but unknown to Rodriguez his albums became extremely successful and influential in South Africa, where he is believed to have sold more records than Elvis Presley. His work also found a following in some other countries in Africa, and also in Australia and New Zealand. Because information about him was scarce, it was incorrectly rumored there that he had committed suicide shortly after releasing his second album. In the 1990s, determined South African fans managed to find and contact Rodriguez, which led to an unexpected revival of his musical career. This was told in the 2012 Academy Award–winning documentary film Searching for Sugar Man and helped give Rodriguez a measure of fame in his home country.

They’ve become one of the world’s most sophisticated, lasting, and imitated vocal groups around today. You’d be hard-pressed to find a more influential group out there in this new era of network television a cappella shows like NBC’s The Sing-Off, movies like Pitch Perfect, prolific a cappella YouTube'rs, and innumerable college vocal groups that own the corner of cool on campuses everywhere.

86 Track 3-CD set of rare and collectable early Detroit Soul productions, celebrating some of the more obscure recordings from the Motor City. Boasts seven previously unissued recordings and over 20 tracks new to CD! Coincides with the release of Kathryn Bigelow’s much-anticipated new film, Detroit, inspired by the riots of 1967 within the city’s black community. Classic recordings from the vaults of Lu Pine, Sidra, Impact and other highly regarded Detroit labels of the 60s. Includes some of the earliest recordings of Wilson Pickett, Eddie Floyd and Bettye LaVette, as well as future Motown stars The Supremes (as The Primettes), Marv Johnson, The Contours and Brian Holland. Includes the most influential early soul single ‘I Found A Love’, as well as a host of Northern Soul classics by the likes of Mr. Floods Party, Just Brothers, The Precisions, Gwen Owens, The Falcons and Fork In The Road. All titles recorded between 1957 and 1977, curated by the team behind the Joe Boy and Outta Sight labels.