The Complete Motown Singles, Vol. 9: 1969

Artist	Various Artists
Format	CD
Label Name	Hip-O Select
Producer	Ivory Joe Hunter, Marvin Gaye, Smokey Robinson, Wade Marcus, Tom Baird, Johnny Bristol, Billie Jean Brown, Henry Cosby, Hal Davis, Lamont Dozier, Harvey Fuqua, Gwen Fuqua, Berry Gordy, Jr., George Gordy, Brian Holland, Don Hunter, Terry Johnson, Clay McMurray, Ronald Dean Miller, Warren "Pete" Moore, Richard Morris, Deke Richards, Valerie Simpson, William "Mickey" Stevenson, William Weatherspoon, Norman Whitfield, Stevie Wonder, Suzanne de Passe, Duke Browner, Allen Story, Harry Balk, Al Cleveland II, Frank Beaty Wilson, James Frank Dean, Keith Hughes
Release Date	2007
Song List	1: Twenty-Five Miles (3:21) 2: Love Is My Destination (2:54) 3: I'm Livin in Shame (3:04) 4: I'm So Glad I Got Somebody (Like You Around) (3:38) 5: Good Lovin' Aint Easy to Come By (2:26) 6: Satisfied Feelin' (2:58) 7: We've Got a Way out of Love (3:09) 8: You're the One (3:12) 9: We've Got a Way out of Love [Alternate Mix] (3:07) 10: My Whole World Ended (The Moment You Left Me) (3:27) 100: Rainy Mourning (2:53) 101: Home on the Range (Everybody Needs a Home) (3:17) 102: It's a Family Thing (2:11) 103: Mend This Generation (2:58) 104: A Place in the Sun (2:28) 105: Your Love (2:22) 106: Never Had a Cream Come True (3:06) 107: Yester Me, Yester You, Yesterday (3:05) 108: I'd Be a Fool Right Now (2:54) 109: It's Private Tonight (3:12) 11: I've Got to Find Myself a Brand New Baby (2:57) 110: Let's Make Some Love (2:24) 111: These Eyes (3:38) 112: I've Got to Find a Way to Win Maria Back (3:10) 113: Friendship Train (3:46) 114: Cloud Nine (3:11) 115: In My Diary (2:47) 116: (She's Gonna Love Me) At Sundown (2:35) 117: I Want You Back (3:00) 118: Who's Lovin' You (4:22) 119: If You Will Let Me, I Know I Can (3:02) 12: Muck-Arty-Park (4:06) 120: Farewell Is a Lonely Sound (3:02) 121: Gonna Put It on Your Mind (2:36) 122: Henry Blake (2:42) 123: Someday We'll Be Together (3:26) 124: He's My Sunny Boy (2:21) 125: Don't Let Him Take Your Love from Me (2:36) 126: The Key (2:36) 127: Baby, I'll Get It (2:39) 128: The Day the World Stood Still (3:02) 129: What You Gave Me (2:36) 13: Green Grow the Lilacs (3:06) 130: How You Gonna Keep It (After You Get It) (2:58) 131: Generation (Light Up the Sky) (2:47) 132: Magic Key (3:29) 133: I'm So Glad I Fell for You (3:07) 134: I Pray Every Day You Won't Regret Loving Me (3:06) 135: I'm So Glad I Fell for You [Alternate Mix] (4:16) 136: Point It Out (2:39) 137: Darling Dear (3:13) 138: Point It Out [Alternate Mix] (2:35) 139: Can We Talk to You? (For a Little While) (2:18) 14: I Don't Know Why (3:03) 140: Love and Peace (2:59) 141: Can't You Hear the Music Play (2:18) 142: I Guess This Is Goodbye (2:55) 143: I Will Never Love Another (2:45) 144: Love Unto Me (2:08) 145: How Can I Forget (2:03) 146: Gonna Give Her All the Love I Got (3:28) 147: Psychedelic Shack (3:50) 148: That's the Way Love Is (3:20) 15: My Cherie Amour (2:54) 16: Don't Know Why I Love You [Commercial Version] (2:47) 17: Runaway Child, Running Wild (4:47) 18: I Need Your Lovin' (2:30) 19: Don't Mess with My Weekend (2:41) 20: I Had a Dream (3:41) 21: Ain't No Justice (2:48) 22: Didn't You Know (You'd Have to Cry Sometime) (3:34) 23: Keep an Eye (2:34) 24: I'll Try Something New (2:25) 25: The Way You Do the Things You Do (1:43) 26: Are You Lonely for Me Baby (3:05) 27: Your Wonderful Love (2:57) 28: Are You Lonely for Me Baby [Alternate Long Mix] (3:21) 29: I Feel Like Falling in Love Again (3:14) 30: Pin Point It Down (3:05) 31: (We've Got) Honey Love (2:40) 32: I'm in Love (And I Know It) (2:31) 33: Runnaway Child, Running Wild (3:16) 34: Gonna Give Her All the Love I've Got (3:30) 35: For Better or Worse (2:55) 36: Don't Mess with Bill (3:52) 37: The Composer (2:54) 38: The Beginning of the End (2:29) 39: My Cup Runneth Over (2:27) 40: Ask the Lonely (2:56) 41: Too Busy Thinking About My Baby (2:56) 42: Wherever I Lay My Hat (That's My Home) (2:18) 43: What Is a Man (2:35) 44: Don't Bring Back Memories (2:58) 45: Cherie (3:01) 46: Baby (2:54) 47: What Does It Take (To Win Your Love) (2:30) 48: Brainwasher, Pt. 1 (2:53) 49: Don't Let the Joneses Get You Down (4:39) 50: Since I've Lost You (2:41) 51: Just Ain't Enough Love (2:18) 52: Green Grow the Lilacs (2:44) 53: No Matter What Sign You Are (2:55) 54: The Young Folks (3:15) 55: No Matter What Sign You Are [Alternate Mix] (2:58) 56: I'm Still a Struggling Man (2:29) 57: Pretty Little Angel (2:14) 58: The Nitty Gritty (3:01) 59: Got Myself a Good Man (3:09) 60: Doggone Right (2:58) 61: Here I Go Again (2:58) 62: Abraham, Martin, And John (2:52) 63: Abraham, Martin, And John [Alternate Mix] (3:00) 64: I've Lost Everything I've Ever Loved (2:47) 65: We Have a Good Thing Going On (2:37) 66: Stubborn Kind of Fellow (3:06) 67: Try It Baby (3:48) 68: The Luney Landing (2:24) 69: The Luney Take-Off (1:19) 70: Oh, I've Been Blessed (2:50) 71: It Should Have Been Me Loving Her (2:59) 72: Cheating, Is Telling on You (2:41) 73: Need Your Love (2:57) 74: Oh How Happy (2:46) 75: Ooo Baby Baby (2:41) 76: My Springtime (2:33) 77: Suzie (2:47) 78: My Girl Has Gone (2:56) 79: I Can't Get Next to You (2:54) 80: Running Away (Ain't Gonna Help You) (2:51) 81: That's the Way Love Is (3:35) 82: Gonna Keep on Tryin' Till I Win Your Love (2:53) 83: Honey Come Back (3:35) 84: What Am I Gonna Do Without You (2:31) 85: Baby, I'm for Real (3:18) 86: Moment of Truth (3:13) 87: Taking My Love (And Leaving Me) (3:03) 88: Heartless (3:04) 89: In Bed (2:51) 90: Reality (3:28) 91: The Weight (3:02) 92: For Better or Worse (2:38) 93: A Whiter Shade of Pale (2:59) 94: When You Are Available (2:49) 95: Just Another Lonely Night (2:53) 96: Don't Care Why You Want Me (Long as You Want Me) (3:12) 97: Midnight Cowboy (2:44) 98: Green Grow the Lilacs (2:51) 99: That's How Heartaches Are Made (2:59)
Style.Categories	Pop-Soul, Motown, R&B, Soul

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A Diana Ross & the Supremes B-side in 1969 was called "The Beginning of the End," and it's hard not to think that the title applies to Motown in 1969, especially as depicted in the six-disc, 148-track box set The Complete Motown Singles, Vol. 9: 1969. Berry Gordy uprooted Motown to Los Angeles at the end of 1968, a move that couldn't help but be seen as symbolic no matter what good business reasons there might have been behind it. It seemed that Gordy was abandoning Detroit in the wake of the 1967 Riots, leaving behind tumult in the Motor City and also severing ties with the label's roots, if not its history. It was ten years since the label's inception, and in that decade Motown rose from a scrappy independent to a label with so much success it was almost an institution, and what better way to cement its mainstream institutional success than by relocating to the heart of show biz? It made sense on paper even if it nevertheless had the byproduct of removing some of the label's soul, as it seemed as if its heart belonged in Detroit. But most cultural change is slow, not sudden, so it's not like 1969 saw the debut of a brand-new Motown: instead, it was the beginning of the label's third act, one that saw it broadening its borders and eventually leading to the artistic triumphs of Stevie Wonder and Marvin Gaye in the early '70s -- in other words, it was "the beginning of the end."
Within that fledgling ending were remnants of the very beginning, of course, sometimes remnants that appeared to be just a shade too self-conscious, as when Gordy had Detroit TV legend Soupy Sales cut a single, almost as a way to illustrate how Motown still had ties to its hometown even if the 45 itself was an ultra-bizarre "Macarthur Park" parody non-too subtly titled "Muck-Arty Park." And, of course, the label's leading lights remained the superstars from the '60s -- Diana Ross & the Supremes, Marvin Gaye, Martha Reeves & the Vandellas, the Temptations, the Four Tops, Stevie Wonder. But even if the names are familiar, the sounds reflected the time, as the productions are studded with wah wah guitars, fuzztones, and elastic funk beats. The feeling of the era is reflected most glaringly in the very title of "Psychedelic Shack," but also in how Smokey Robinson & the Miracles sang Dion's "Abraham Martin & John," the elegiac undertones of the Supremes' "Someday We'll Be Together," and the smooth, lush tones of Wonder's "My Cherie Amour." These lush, soft tones are improbably echoed in, of all places, Jr. Walker's recordings; once the toughest, hardest of the Motown stable, he is also held under the sway of the softer sophistication of the new era Motown (quite fetchingly so on "What Does It Take (To Win Your Love)") unlike Marvin Gaye, whose "Too Busy Thinking About My Baby" has a bounciness to it that is the closest thing to a throwback to classic Motown among the hits in 1969. Even if the sound recalled earlier days, there's a sophistication within his writing and the production, just as there is in Stevie Wonder's "Yester Me, Yester You, Yesterday," which is one of his best moments.
Nevertheless, these kind of mammoth hits -- hits that turned into pop classics -- didn't dominate Motown's year; they were the exception, not the rule, as the label had its most uneven year since 1963. From 1964 through 1968, almost every single the label released turned into a hit of some magnitude, and their bench was so deep the records that didn't appear on the charts were nevertheless by and large terrific.