‘Motown 25’ Special, Expansive Box Set Planned for Release!

February 24, 2015

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144 track CD is set to feature 25 new stereo mixes of classics from the artists from the Motown 25 Special!

The special will be accompanied by Motown: Big Hits & More, a new seven-CD box set of classic Motown hits, album tracks and rarities. The massive, 144-track release will feature “25 new stereo mixes of classic songs,” including the Temptations’ “Get Ready,” Stevie Wonder’s “Uptight (Everything’s Alright),” Smokey Robinson and the Miracles’ “I Second That Emotion” and Martha and the Vandellas’ “Heatwave.” The new versions were assembled by TJ Lubinsky, an executive producer for several of PBS’ pledge-driven programs. Working with the “original stages and pre-mixed stages” of recordings made at the famed Hitsville USA studio, his team uncovered a number of revelatory surprises.

“Most often the songs went much longer than the fades we are used to hearing,” Lubinsky says in a statement. “And sometimes even extra verses were uncovered, like Smokey Robinson and the Miracles ad-libbing the line, ‘the tracks of my tears, I’ve been crying for years,’ which has never been heard before because it was on the original session tapes past the fade-out on the 45.”

The release will be available to members who pledge to public television stations during the February 28th broadcast of Motown 25 and at www.treasurycollection.com.

SOURCE: RollingStone

The special will be accompanied by Motown: Big Hits & More, a new seven-CD box set of classic Motown hits, album tracks and rarities. The massive, 144-track release will feature “25 new stereo mixes of classic songs,” including the Temptations’ “Get Ready,” Stevie Wonder’s “Uptight (Everything’s Alright),” Smokey Robinson and the Miracles’ “I Second That Emotion” and Martha and the Vandellas’ “Heatwave.” The new versions were assembled by TJ Lubinsky, an executive producer for several of PBS’ pledge-driven programs. Working with the “original stages and pre-mixed stages” of recordings made at the famed Hitsville USA studio, his team uncovered a number of revelatory surprises.

“Most often the songs went much longer than the fades we are used to hearing,” Lubinsky says in a statement. “And sometimes even extra verses were uncovered, like Smokey Robinson and the Miracles ad-libbing the line, ‘the tracks of my tears, I’ve been crying for years,’ which has never been heard before because it was on the original session tapes past the fade-out on the 45.”

The release will be available to members who pledge to public television stations during the February 28th broadcast of Motown 25 and at www.treasurycollection.com.

The special will be accompanied by Motown: Big Hits & More, a new seven-CD box set of classic Motown hits, album tracks and rarities. The massive, 144-track release will feature “25 new stereo mixes of classic songs,” including the Temptations’ “Get Ready,” Stevie Wonder’s “Uptight (Everything’s Alright),” Smokey Robinson and the Miracles’ “I Second That Emotion” and Martha and the Vandellas’ “Heatwave.” The new versions were assembled by TJ Lubinsky, an executive producer for several of PBS’ pledge-driven programs. Working with the “original stages and pre-mixed stages” of recordings made at the famed Hitsville USA studio, his team uncovered a number of revelatory surprises.

“Most often the songs went much longer than the fades we are used to hearing,” Lubinsky says in a statement. “And sometimes even extra verses were uncovered, like Smokey Robinson and the Miracles ad-libbing the line, ‘the tracks of my tears, I’ve been crying for years,’ which has never been heard before because it was on the original session tapes past the fade-out on the 45.”

The release will be available to members who pledge to public television stations during the February 28th broadcast of Motown 25 and at www.treasurycollection.com.