Soundtrack to a NBC TV special - "Getting It Together" - aired in November 1969, two months before Diana left the trio for a solo career. As a long time fan of both Supremes and Temptations I try to get most of their sixties stuff and love almost all of it, but with this I'm not sure. Though very well arranged and performed with mostly ok audio I don't feel at home here at all. Tracking mostly consists of known Broadway ear pleasers that's been done before by other artists and to me the two combos sound a bit out of their league with the material. Singing as good as ever, though without the old magic Motown backing it doesn't catch me as I'm used to. Very posh but also lacking much of the feeling that made the label such a giant on the sixties music scene. On the bright side - the Diana Ross "Leading Lady Medley" works just fine and you get no less than twenty sleeve images from the show. Seeing it now on Youtube makes me like it a little better, but the album alone still doesn't do it for me all the way. Originally issued on vinyl in Canada, France, Holland, South Africa, Downunder and a couple of South American countries. Also as US 8-track, reel-to-reel and a 2017 CD on Motown (MS 699). Premiere US had label as shown here in a glossy fold/out cover. (YZÄ*) (LYBÖ*) (ZÖNT*) (ZYZÖ*) (ÄIÖ*) (TÖMÖ*)
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I do love the US Motown label, so much prettier than the bland Tamla Motown label we got here in the UK.
SvaraRaderaYes more colorful indeed, but the UK has some kind of sparse elegance I can't deny.
RaderaI know what you mean, but for me it's too similar to other EMI owned labels of the period e.g. Parlophone, Columbia etc.
RaderaI get it. Earlier in the sixties the UK EMI labels had separate and attractive designs, but from late -69 most of them were changed to black/silver as the Tamla Motown one had been from the start.
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