The Complete Motown Singles | Vol. 5: 1965

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Release Date: 2006-08-04

Label: Hip-O Select

Bill Dahl of Chicago has written hundreds of album reviews, feature stories and various articles about music and musicians. He has been nominated for a Grammy® award for his notes to Ray Charles' "Genius & Soul: The 50th Anniversary Collection". With Weldon A. McDougal III, Dahl is the author of "Motown: The Golden Years".

Keith Hughes of Wantage, England, is the co-producer of this volume in the Complete Motown Singles series and associate producer for previous volumes. He is the author of "Don't Forget The Motor City", a Motown discography, and he has written articles for a variety of soul magazines. His research has appeared in a number of CD compilations.

"Billboard" chart information courtesy of BPI Communications Inc. and Joel Whitburn's Record Research Inc.

Discographical information courtesy of Motown Records Archives.

Primary Sources: The Hitsville Session Logbooks, The Motown Library Tape Filling Card Index, The Motown 45 RPM Record Label Files, The Jobete Music Company Catalog January, 1959 / March 31, 1967.

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Digitally remastered from the original analog single masters at Universal Mastering Studios-East.

With Thanks To: All of the artists and Motown staffers who contributed their memories, and to the Motown Winners' Circle (Chris Jenner, John Lester, Paul Nixon and Andrew Skurow); Bill Levenson, George Solomon, Ritchie Hardin, Martin Hughes, Eric Charge, Lars Nilsson, Tim Brown, Kenny Burrell, and Thane Tierney.

Our gratitude to Berry Gordy, the Gordy family, the artists, musicians, engineers, writers, producers, arrangers, hand-clappers and foot-stompers at 2468 West Grand Boulevard and on the West Coast.

Tracks 17 & 18 on Disc 25 courtesy of EMI Records, under license from EMI Music Special Markets.

Photographs courtesy of Motown Records Archives except as follows: Pg. 4: Walter P. Reuther Library, Wayne State University; Pgs. 5, 7, 26, 29, 35, 59, 81, 97: courtesy Marvin Post; Pgs. 28, 93: courtesy Paul Nixon; Pg. 41, disc 2 pocket: courtesy Claudette Robinson; Pg. 46: Jean Mohr/courtesy Gilles Pétard; Pgs. 57, 83, 86: courtesy Gilles Pétard Collection; Pg. 123: Shirkey/The Detroit News; Single labels & picture sleeves courtesy Lars "LG" Nilsson and Gary Johns.

© 2006 Motown Records, a division of UMG Recordings, Inc. Distributed by Universal Music Distribution.

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Non-Release Notes

CD Edition limited to 8000 non-numbered limited edition copies.

Disc 1-6 corresponds to 22-27 in The Complete Motown Singles series.

All musician credits and additional backing vocals, production, engineering or song writing credits taken from the track-by-track annotations and essays.

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