The Best Of The Supremes = クリスマス・ベスト

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Release Date: 2003-11-21

Labels: Motown, Chronicles

Track 15 "Noel" is indicated as previously unreleased.

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UMe ℗ 1999 © 2003 Motown Records, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
UM³/USM Japan, A Universal Music Company.

Booklet 1:

Backing tracks for Merry Christmas were recorded in Los Angeles in August, 1965. The vocals and final mixes were produced back in Detroit a month later. It was released in November and reached no. 6 on the Christmas charts.

13. The Christmas Song (Merry Christmas To You)
Issued with a different mix on the Motown collection The Supremes The Never-Before-Released Masters (MCD09075MD), 1987

14. Just A Lonely Christmas
First issued on the Motown collection Christmas In The City (374636326-2), 1993; an acapella performance of the first verse only was issued on the The Supremes The Never-Before-Released Masters (MCD09075MD), 1987.

#1-12 originally release as Motown 638, November 1965.

#13-16 are bonus songs not on original album.

Band tracks recorded in Los Angeles, CA, August, 1965. Vocals recorded in Detroit, MI, September, 1965. (One other song from the recordings, "Oh Little Town Of Bethlehem" is available on the CD collection A Motown Christmas Carol

All songs digitally remastered from the original stereo analog master tapes at Universal Music Studios East
"The Christmas Song" and "Silent Night" mixed from the original session tapes at UMSE
"Noel" mixed from the original session tapes at The Complex, Los Angeles, CA

Back liner photo taken on location of Where The Action Is (Big Bear Mountain, Calif.)

Original record ad courtesy of the Mary Wilson Collection. All other images courtesy of Norwin Simmons Collection, Thomas Ingrassia and Andy Skurow.

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