Tamla Motown

Limited Edition four CD set. Housed in a compact hardback casing, this wonderful four disc boxset guides listeners through the Tamla/Motown label's considerable success in Europe and looks at the way Berry Gordy's message travelled around the Globe. A fascinating way of reading a familiar story, the box is a marvelous companion to the US Hitsville box set. All the Motown favorites are here, from Smokey Robinson to Stevie Wonder, Diana Ross to Michael Jackson and many others. Each disc is broken down into themes: Milestones And Influences (Disc One), British Chartbusters (Disc Two), Live in London And Paris (Disc Three) and Killer Bs (Disc Four). Includes extensive sleeve notes by author Brian Southall. 94 tracks.

Rightly revered for the storming protest classic "War," Edwin Starr didn't really need another hit to achieve legendary status in soul circles, so electrifying was that single performance….

Let's Get It On is the 1971 album by late American singer Marvin Gaye. A huge hit for him, this is not a 2CD Deluxe Edition but it could be considered a 30th anniversary pressing.

Digitally remastered treasure trove of every great hit single produced by the legendary label through the 1960's in their heyday. The sheer volume of hits in this collection is mind boggling for any fan of pop music. Not an ounce of filler on these discs…this is the real deal! The sweetest part of the deal is that this set is priced like a double set and you get an extra third disc as a bonus!

Edwin Starr was born Charles Hatcher in Nashville, TN, on January 21, 1942 (his cousin was deep soul singer and songwriter Roger Hatcher). He grew up in Cleveland and formed a doo wop quintet called the FutureTones while still in high school. They won numerous local talent competitions and even recorded a single for a small label, but Starr was drafted into the military in 1960, stalling the group's momentum. When he returned in 1962, he tried to get things going again, but to no avail; instead, he wound up joining Bill Doggett's group as a featured vocalist in 1963. Two years later, Starr wrote what he felt was a surefire hit in the spy-themed "Agent Double-O-Soul," and left Doggett's band to sign with Ric Tic Records and settle in Detroit. "Agent Double-O-Soul" hit the R&B Top Ten later in 1965, and just missed the pop Top 20.

Probably more than any other single creative and production source, the Motown operation, founded in Detroit by Berry Gordy Jr. as Tamla Records in January 1959, has made an extraordinarily powerful and significant contribution to popular music over the last 60 years, with a seemingly never-ending supply of uniquely talented artists and writers, chart hits and landmark albums.

It was Ace Records’ good fortune in 2009 to become the first independent record company in the world to acquire the rights to release previously unissued Motown material from the 1960s. Our tenth and latest Motown project is “Finders Keeper”, a compilation titled for the Marvelettes’ 1964 recording that first surfaced on the British Tamla Motown logo in 1980.

Rockabilly singer Dorsey Burnette was part of Motown Records short-lived foray into country music on their spin-off label Mel-o-dy Records and this package includes the 28 tracks he recorded in 1964 and 1965. Burnette's biggest hit from this era, Jimmy Brown, was even released in the UK under the Tamla Motown imprint, a rarity at the time.