Super Hits (Marvin Gaye album)

Super Hits
Greatest hits album by Marvin Gaye
Released September 1970[1]
Recorded 1962–69
Length 44:16
Label Tamla
Producer William "Mickey" Stevenson, Brian Holland, Lamont Dozier, Frank Wilson, Norman Whitfield, Smokey Robinson
Marvin Gaye chronology
Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell's Greatest Hits
(1970)Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell's Greatest Hits1970		 Super Hits
(1970)		 What's Going On
(1971)What's Going On1971

Super Hits is a 1970 compilation album released by American soul singer Marvin Gaye on the Tamla label. It compiles Gaye's string of pop-R&B songs he recorded during 1962 to 1969.[2]

Critical reception

Music critic Robert Christgau viewed Super Hits as the best album released by Motown.[3] In a retrospective review, Allmusic's Ron Wynn gave it four-and-a-half out of five stars and called it "a fabulous anthology, one of the best ones Motown ever released."[4] The New Rolling Stone Record Guide (1983) gave Super Hits four out of five stars.[5]

A similarly titled compilation album was released in 2001 by Legacy Records and Sony Music,[6] which The Rolling Stone Album Guide (2004) warned was "not the wonderful 1970 Motown collection, now deleted, but a budget set of Midnight Love material."[7]

Track listing

  1. "I Heard It Through the Grapevine" (3:13) (Norman Whitfield, Barrett Strong)
  2. "Pride and Joy" (2:04) (Whitfield, Marvin Gaye, Mickey Stevenson)
  3. "The End of Our Road" (2:49) (Roger Penzabene, Whitfield, Strong)
  4. "Ain't That Peculiar" (2:57) (Smokey Robinson, Marv Tarplin, Bobby Rogers, Pete Moore)
  5. "Stubborn Kind of Fellow" (2:44) (Gaye, George Gordy, Mickey Stevenson)
  6. "Can I Get a Witness" (2:48) (Brian Holland, Lamont Dozier, Eddie Holland)
  7. "How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved By You)" (2:49) (Holland, Dozier, Holland)
  8. "That's the Way Love Is" (3:34) (Whitfield, Strong)

Side Two

  1. "Too Busy Thinking About My Baby" (2:53) (Whitfield, Janie Bradford, Strong)
  2. "Chained" (2:38) (Frank Wilson)
  3. "You're a Wonderful One" (2:40) (Holland, Dozier, Holland)
  4. "Try It Baby" (2:56) (Berry Gordy)
  5. "I'll Be Doggone" (2:48) (Robinson, Moore, Tarplin)
  6. "Hitch Hike" (2:25) (Gaye, Clarence Paul, Stevenson)
  7. "You" (2:26) (Jack Goga, Ivy Jo Hunter, Jeffrey Bowen)
  8. "Baby Don't You Do It" (2:32) (Holland, Dozier, Holland)

References

  1. ↑ Ben Edmonds (2002). What's Going On?: Marvin Gaye and the Last Days of the Motown Sound. Canongate U.S. p. 280. ISBN 1841953148. Retrieved July 3, 2013.
  2. ↑ Stranded. Retrieved July 3, 2013.
  3. ↑ "Rock Critic's Choice: Top Ten". Robert Christgau. Retrieved July 3, 2013.
  4. ↑ Wynn, Ron. "Super Hits [Motown] – Marvin Gaye". Allmusic. Retrieved July 3, 2013.
  5. ↑ Dave Marsh, John Swenson (1983). The New Rolling Stone Record Guide. Random House, Rolling Stone Press. p. 193. ISBN 0394721071.
  6. ↑ "Super Hits – Marvin Gaye". Allmusic. Retrieved July 3, 2013.
  7. ↑ GoogleBooks Preview. Retrieved July 3, 2013.
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