Motown the DVD
Title: MOTOWN: THE DVD DEFINITIVE PERFORMANCES
LABEL: HIP-O-SELECT / UNIVERSAL MUSIC / HISTORIC MUSIC
RELEASE DATE: NOVEMBER 30TH 2009
Format: DVD
Cat #: DVD B0012525-09
The First and ONLY Motown DVD Collection
MOTOWN CHANGED THE FACE OF AMERICAN POPULAR MUSIC
This special DVD collection presents 18 classic television performances featuring some of Motown’s biggest hits and greatest artists from 1965 – 1972 – including the company’s first pop #1 hit, The Marvelettes’ ‘Please Mr Postman’, Martha & The Vandellas’ classic performance of ‘No Where To Run’ on the Ford Mustang assembly line, and a luminous live version of ‘The Tears of A Clown’ by Smokey Robinson & The Miracles.
These classics, plus the virtuoso within teenage Stevie Wonder, the brilliance of Marvin Gaye, the enchanting Supremes and smooth choreography of The Temptations, all highlighted on this DVD, magnify the extraordinary legacy of Motown.
Classic performances of:
- The Marvelettes – Please Mr Postman (Teen Town)
- The Contours – Do You Love Me (Hy Lit Show)
- Marvin Gaye – Hitch Hike (Hollywood A-Go-Go)
- Brenda Holloway – Every Little Bit Hurts (Shivaree)
- Martha and The Vandellas - Dancing In The Street (The Ed Sullivan Show)
- The Temptations – My Girl (Teen Town)
- Martha and The Vandellas – Nowhere To Run (Murray The K)
- Four Tops – Can’t Help Myself - Sugar Pie Honey Bunch (Tienerklanken)
- The Supremes – Back In My Arms Again (Mike Douglas Show)
- Kim Weston – Take Me In Your Arms (Rock Me A Little While) (Swingin’ Time)
- Marvin Gaye – Ain’t That Peculiar (Live From The Bitter End)
- Stevie Wonder - Uptight (Everything’s Alright) (Swingin’ Time)
- The Marvelettes – Don’t Mess With Bill (Hullabaloo)
- Jimmy Ruffin – What Becomes of the Broken Hearted (Beat Club)
- Gladys Knight & The Pips – I Heard It Through The Grapevine (Save The Children Concert)
- David Ruffin – My Whole World Ended (The Moment You Left Me) (Upbeat)
- Edwin Starr – War (Upbeat)
- Smokey Robinson & The Miracles – The Tears of A Clown (Andy Williams Show)
Special Features
- Optional Audio Streams: 5.1 Surround, remastered stereo, original single mono mixes and original broadcast audio
- Berry Gordy TeenTowninterview
- Vintage interviews from Motown greats like Four Tops, Smokey Robinson, Gladys Knight & The Pips and more…
- Motown Picnic - Special, never before released footage from a Motown family picnic.
- 1959 – an entertaining review of news, entertainment and advertisements from the year in which Motown records was founded