Preview: Various Artists - Motown 50: The DVD

Artist: Various Artists
Title: Motown 50: The DVD
Release Date: November 3, 2009
Label: Motown/UME
Format(s): 1-DVD

Motown continues the celebration of their 50th Anniversary with Motown 50: The DVD, a collection of eighteen rare performances from between 1965 and 1971. Represented are the majority of the labels big artists from the day on programs from Hullabaloo to the Mike Douglas Show.

The DVD allows the viewer to choose from the original broadcast audio or, where available, the original single mono mix, remastered stereo or 5.1 Surround. Special features include vintage interviews with Motown founder Berry Gordy, the Four Tops, Smokey Robinson, Gladys Knight & the Pips and others, interspersed between clips; plus bonus material that includes the full interview segment from a Teen Town special with Berry Gordy and Motown's head of sales, Barney Ales; personal, never-before-released footage from a seventies Motown picnic; and an entertaining retrospective of news, entertainment and advertisements from 1959, the year Motown was launched.

Track List:

• Please Mr. Postman - Marvelettes (Teen Town)
• Do You Love Me - Contours (Hy Lit Show)
• Hitch Hike - Marvin Gaye (Hollywood A-Go-Go)
• Every Little Bit Hurts - Brenda Holloway (Shivaree
• Dancing In The Street - Martha & The Vandellas (The Ed Sullivan Show)
• My Girl - Temptations (Teen Town)
• Nowhere To Run - Martha & The Vandellas (Murray The K)
• I Can't Help Myself (Sugar Pie, Honey Bunch) - Four Tops (Tienerklanken)
• Back In My Arms Again - Supremes (Mike Douglas Show)
• Take Me In Your Arms (Rock Me A Little While) - Kim Weston (Swingin' Time)
• Ain't That Peculiar - Marvin Gaye (Live from the Bitter End)
• Uptight (Everything's Alright) - Stevie Wonder (Swingin' Time)
• Don't Mess With Bill - Marvelettes (Hullabaloo)
• What Becomes Of The Brokenhearted - Jimmy Ruffin (Beat Club)
• I Heard It Through The Grapevine - Gladys Knight & The Pips (Save The Children Concert)
• My Whole World Ended (The Moment You Left Me) - David Ruffin (Up Beat)
• War - Edwin Starr (Up Beat)
• The Tears Of A Clown - Smokey Robinson & The Miracles (Andy Williams Show)