Anyone interested in buying the new Motown 7's Box Set, note Amazon UK have it to pre-order at the moment for £24.99.

 

 https://www.amazon.co.uk/Motown-7s-Vinyl-VINYL/dp/B01H2UZOSS/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1468060885&sr=8-1&keywords=motown+7's+box+set

heres the blurb...

Track Listings
Disc: 1
  1. The Touch of Venus - Patrice Holloway
  2. Your Love Can Save Me - The Marvelettes

Disc: 2
  1. The Way You Been Acting Lately - Al Kent
  2. My Love Is Your Love (Forever) - Barbara Randolph

Disc: 3
  1. It's Gonna Take a Whole Lot of Doin' - David Ruffin
  2. Sweet Was the Love - The Four Tops

Disc: 4
  1. The Stranger - Gladys Knight and The Pips
  2. The 'In' Crowd - Jimmy Ruffin

Disc: 5
  1. Show Me the Way - J.J. Barnes
  2. I'm Gonna Make It Up to You - Kim Weston

Disc: 6
  1. It's Not Unusual - Marvin Gaye
  2. We'll Be Satisfied - Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell

Disc: 7
  1. Crying in the Night - The Monitors
  2. Head Over Heels in Love With You Baby - The Spinners

Product Description
Product Description
The third in our series of highly desirable limited edition 7" box sets once again delivers with 14 top in-demanders from the vaults of Motown. Seriously soulful dance delights, only ever previously hidden-away on albums or CD collections, these are all high on any Hitsville collector's wants list, and all these masterpieces are making make their first ever appearance on 45rpm singles worldwide.

wow some fantastic tracks top one for me  the spinners 

got my order in roll on September 

Am I right in thinking that this is the very first time a Ric-Tic recording has been re-released through Motown since the early UK LP and a few UK TMG singles (Laura Lee / San Remo etc) back in the very early seventies ?

Cheers
Mick

Many thanks for posting, got my order in too.

Mick Holdsworth ,I think you are correcto, first time Motown \Universal have issued a Ric-Tic recording since  Al  Kent "You gotta PayThe price" ( Track UK primero) and " OOh Pretty Lady" on Ric Relics stml11232 way back in 1973! Al's "Ooh you are awful" also came out in 73 as promo only 45 ep, along with ; Spinners, Eddie K , and Willie Hutch , PSR 352 on Tamla Motown ,rather hard to find. When the adorable ,fantastic ,Richard ( heard Sealing , Starling, Spurling, But Searing with Passion for Soul music perhaps!)  ,hinted at the release of 7,s Box set Vol 3 ,, he played " Acting Lately"  simultaneously, I spoke to him suspecting a Ric Tic Revolution was coming , so far his busy PA schedule he has not responded to my email !

That's what I thought, I seem to remember that there was some anomaly over Ric Tic copywrite, meaning we had never had a CD or vinyl compilation of Ric Tic since those early days. Look like that has been sorted out now, so maybe a Ric Tic Revolution, as you say, is on the horizon. (If Universal can release one, then the should be able to release any or all - maybe a CD or Vinyl Box set for the future)

 I find it a bit dissapointing but great for the motown buffs

David Ruffin probably my favourite

Edited July 9, 20169 yr by smudger

7 minutes ago, Mick Holdsworth said:

That's what I thought, I seem to remember that there was some anomaly over Ric Tic copywrite, meaning we had never had a CD or vinyl compilation of Ric Tic since those early days. Look like that has been sorted out now, so maybe a Ric Tic Revolution, as you say, is on the horizon. (If Universal can release one, then the should be able to release any or all - maybe a CD or Vinyl Box set for the future)

Could it be that because the track was not previously issued it is not an issue releasing it now?  I'm thinking of all those Stax collections that get round Atlantic's theft of the original masters/rights by including a previously unreleased take from the Stax vaults - I'm thinking of Otis in particular.  Just a thought.  

I would love a definitive CD release of the Ric Tic stuff.

Would have been nice to see a Ric Tic box set maybe? and more unissued material rather than LP tracks?

Hasn't almost everybody got Al Kent ?

Waste of a track IMHO.

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Edited July 9, 20169 yr by rupert

Track listing

Disc 1

All I Do Is Dream About You - Mary Wells

Look At Me - Mable John

Disc 2

All I Do Is Think About You - Brenda Holloway

I Just Can't Forget Him - Chris Clark

Disc 3

Park St. Bridge - Bobby Taylor

Who You Gonna Run To - Chuck Jackson

Disc 4

I Pray You Still Love Me - Jimmy Ruffin

You Ought To Know Me - David Ruffin

Disc 5 

I Wanna Be Where You Are - Leon Ware

I Can't See Myself [Without You] - Ronnie McNeir

Disc 6 

Symphony - Marvin Gaye

I Just Can't Forget About You Baby - Fantastic Four

Disc 7 

Beware Of A Stranger - Tammi Terrell

You Ain't Livin' Until You're Lovin' - 70's Supremes [sic] & The Four Tops

Product Description

The fourth in our series of highly desirable limited edition 7" box sets once again delivers with 14 top in-demanders from the vaults of Motown. Seriously soulful dance delights, only ever previously hidden-away on albums or CD collections, these are all high on any Hitsville collector's wants list, and all these masterpieces are making make their first ever appearance on 45rpm singles worldwide. Maybe next time, I'm not holdingmy breath though.

   

 

 

 

That is cheap! Got my order in, paid by the missus for my birthday....which is next week!! Roll on September!

Edited July 9, 20169 yr by Soul-Slider

Whilst appreciating the fact that a few on the tracklisting may be "old hat" so to speak, I personally welcome any new output from such a rich vein of "closeted output", and look forward to many more in due course!

Keep 'em coming I say...... 

I see Amazon UK have now put the price upto £49.99? Obviously got enough takers at £24.99.

HMV have this at a low price

Not anymore same price as Amazon.

Glad I got in then lol

Amazon delivery put back to October 21st due to release date being changed by the supplier.

Any further news on this box set. Is it still scheduled for 21st October?

 

Kev

12 minutes ago, stateside said:

Any further news on this box set. Is it still scheduled for 21st October?

 

Kev

According to Amazon it is still Oct 21st - Price there is now £54.99 which is a bit steep.