The Complete Motown Singles | Vol. 2: 1962
2005 Vinyl, 4x CD
Rhythm & Blues
Soul

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Hip-O Select, Motown
compilation producer Harry Weinger
mastered by [digitally remastered] Ellen Fitton
producer [associate producer] Keith Hughes
Record Company UMG Recordings, Inc.
Distributed By Universal Music Distribution
Phonographic Copyright (p) Motown Records
Copyright (c) Motown Records
Remastered At Universal Mastering Studio-East
Track-by-track annotations by Bill Dahl and Keith Hughes, edited by Harry Weinger and Thane Tierney.

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(R) award for his notes to Ray Charles' Genius & Soul: The 50th Anniversairy Collection. With Weldon A. McDougal III, Dahl is the author of Motown: The Golden Years.

Keith Hughes is the author of Don't Forget The Motor City, a Motown discography, and has written articles for a variety of soul magazines. His research has appeared in several CD compilations. Hughes lives in Oxfordshire, England.

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

Discographical information courtesy of Motown Records Archive.
Primary sources: The Hitsville Session Logbooks, The Motown Library Tape Filling Card Index, The Motown 45 RPM Record Label Files.

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

Our gratitude to Berry Gordy, the Gordy family, the artists, musicians, engineers, writers, producers, arrangers, handclappers and footstompers at the beginning of the magic at 2468 West Grand Boulevard.

With Thanks To: All of the artists and Motown staffers who contributed their memories, and to the Motown Winners' Circle (Chris Jenner, John Lester, Andrew Skurow and Paul Nixon); Bruce Resnikoff, Bill Levenson, Ron Murphy, Ritchie Hardin, Paul Barker, Martin Hughes, and Motown fans worldwide.

(C) 2005 Motown Records, a division of UMG Recordings, Inc.

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Non-release Notes

Edition limited to 8000 non-numbered limited edition copies.

Discs 1-4 corresponds to 7-10 in The Complete Motown Singles series.

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

Track CD9-1: Backing vocals credit given to Mickey Stevenson's brother, but with no details on neither first nor last name.

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