Fifty years of Motown has been packaged into a new 191-song boxed set
and
a logo commemorating five decades of dancing in the street. The art for
the set, plastered across the front of the packaging, includes a photo
of Detroit's own Hitsville, U.S.A. on W. Grand Blvd.
Excerpt:
Universal
Music will announce details next week for Motown’s anniversary
showpiece, “Motown: The Complete #1s” — a 10-disc, 191-song boxed set
to be released Dec. 8.
The set’s masterstroke is its packaging,
a replica of Motown’s old Hitsville, USA, headquarters in Detroit, as
seen in product images obtained today by the Free Press. Included will
be a photo book with an essay by Smokey Robinson.
The track list
features music by 50 artists and includes every Motown song to have hit
No. 1 on assorted charts in the United States and elsewhere, starting
with the Miracles’ 1961 song “Shop Around” through Erykah Badu’s 2000
hit “Bag Lady.”
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