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The two-CD, 48-track size of this anthology might be taken to signify a definitive collection of sorts of Kim Weston's recordings for Motown. But while it's of considerable use to Motown collectors, it has to be approached with some caution by less completist-oriented listeners, and can't be classified as a definitive best-of. For one thing, it doesn't include any of her duets with Marvin Gaye, instead being wholly devoted to solo recordings. In addition, the emphasis is very much on rare material, as no less than 34 of the cuts were previously unreleased. So while it does lead off with some of her more familiar Motown songs that actually did find official release in the '60s (including her hits "Take Me in Your Arms [Rock Me a Little While]" and "Helpless"), it's for the most part a dig through unexposed vaults, and doesn't even include all of the solo Motown tracks she put out during the '60s. With your expectations duly adjusted, this is still a worthwhile compilation of one of the Detroit label's less celebrated artists, though it doesn't reveal Weston as one of Motown's more talented ones. She was more likable than spectacular, with a softer, sometimes jazzier edge to her singing than most of her peers at the company, occasionally slightly reminiscent of Dionne Warwick. The jazzy inclination really comes out on "Love Trouble Heartache and Misery," one of the highlights among the unreleased numbers, and the similarity to Warwick is strong on "I Don't Know If I'm Coming or Going," though at other times Motown seemed to be trying to put her into a Mary Wells bag she really didn't fit. Greatest Hits & Rare Classics remains a preferable compilation for the general listener due to its greater and more thorough concentration on her official Motown discography (including her "It Takes Two" hit duet with Gaye). For the Motown fanatic, though, this does offer a lot of unreleased (if somewhat second-division) material penned by major writers at the label like Smokey Robinson and Mickey Stevenson, the most interesting of those tracks being the earlier ones, when the Motown sound wasn't as formulaic as it would become later in the 1960s.
© Richie Unterberger /TiVo
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Kim Weston, MainArtist - William Mickey Stevenson, Producer, ComposerLyricist - Barney Ales, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1963 Motown Records, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
William Stevenson, Producer - Kim Weston, MainArtist - William Mickey Stevenson, ComposerLyricist - John "Sir Raphael" Allen, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1966 UMG Recordings, Inc.
William Robinson, Jr., Producer - Ronald White, ComposerLyricist - SMOKEY ROBINSON, ComposerLyricist - Kim Weston, MainArtist
℗ 1964 UMG Recordings, Inc.
William Stevenson, Producer - Sylvia Rose Moy, ComposerLyricist - Ivy Jo Hunter, Producer - Kim Weston, MainArtist - William Mickey Stevenson, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1964 UMG Recordings, Inc.
William Stevenson, Producer - Ivy Hunter, Producer - Sylvia Rose Moy, ComposerLyricist - Kim Weston, Vocals, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Ivy Joe Hunter, ComposerLyricist - William Mickey Stevenson, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1965 UMG Recordings, Inc.
William Stevenson, Producer - Ivy Hunter, Producer - Kim Weston, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist - Ivy Joe Hunter, ComposerLyricist - William Mickey Stevenson, ComposerLyricist - Barney Ales, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1965 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Edward Holland Jr., ComposerLyricist - Lamont Dozier, Producer, ComposerLyricist - Brian Holland, Producer, ComposerLyricist - Kim Weston, MainArtist
℗ 1965 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Lamont Dozier, Producer, ComposerLyricist - Eddie Holland, ComposerLyricist - Brian Holland, Producer, ComposerLyricist - Kim Weston, Vocals, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Four Tops, Background Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1966 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Henry Cosby, Producer - Sylvia Moy, ComposerLyricist - Kim Weston, Vocals, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - George Kerr, Producer, ComposerLyricist - Mike Valvano, ComposerLyricist
℗ 2005 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Henry Cosby, Producer, ComposerLyricist - Sylvia Rose Moy, ComposerLyricist - Kim Weston, MainArtist - William Mickey Stevenson, Producer, ComposerLyricist
℗ 2005 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Lamont Dozier, Producer, ComposerLyricist - Eddie Holland, ComposerLyricist - Brian Holland, Producer, ComposerLyricist - Kim Weston, MainArtist
℗ 2004 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Sylvia Moy, ComposerLyricist - Ivy Jo Hunter, Producer, ComposerLyricist - Kim Weston, MainArtist - William Mickey Stevenson, Producer, ComposerLyricist
℗ 2005 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Henry Cosby, Producer, ComposerLyricist - Vernon Bullock, ComposerLyricist - Kim Weston, Vocals, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - William Mickey Stevenson, Producer, ComposerLyricist
℗ 2005 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Lamont Dozier, Producer, ComposerLyricist - Eddie Holland, ComposerLyricist - Brian Holland, Producer, ComposerLyricist - Kim Weston, MainArtist
℗ 1998 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Kim Weston, Vocals, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Unknown Writer, ComposerLyricist
℗ 2005 UMG Recordings, Inc.
William Robinson, Jr., ComposerLyricist - Warren Moore, ComposerLyricist - AL CLEVELAND, ComposerLyricist - Ivy Jo Hunter, Producer - Kim Weston, Vocals, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 2005 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Edward Holland Jr., ComposerLyricist - Lamont Dozier, Producer, ComposerLyricist - Brian Holland, Producer, ComposerLyricist - Kim Weston, MainArtist
℗ 2005 UMG Recordings, Inc.
SMOKEY ROBINSON, ComposerLyricist - Kim Weston, MainArtist - William Mickey Stevenson, Producer, ComposerLyricist
℗ 2005 UMG Recordings, Inc.
SMOKEY ROBINSON, Producer, ComposerLyricist - Kim Weston, MainArtist - William Mickey Stevenson, ComposerLyricist
℗ 2005 UMG Recordings, Inc.
William Robinson, Jr., Producer, ComposerLyricist - SMOKEY ROBINSON, ComposerLyricist - Kim Weston, MainArtist
℗ 2005 UMG Recordings, Inc.
William Stevenson, Producer - Kim Weston, MainArtist - Unknown Writer, ComposerLyricist
℗ 2005 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Kim Weston, MainArtist - William Mickey Stevenson, Producer, ComposerLyricist
℗ 2005 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Lamont Dozier, Producer, ComposerLyricist - Eddie Holland, ComposerLyricist - Brian Holland, Producer, ComposerLyricist - Kim Weston, MainArtist
℗ 1966 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Edward Holland Jr., ComposerLyricist - Lamont Dozier, Producer, ComposerLyricist - Brian Holland, Producer, ComposerLyricist - Kim Weston, MainArtist
℗ 2005 UMG Recordings, Inc.
DISQUE 2
Freddie Gorman, ComposerLyricist - Lamont Dozier, Producer, ComposerLyricist - Brian Holland, Producer, ComposerLyricist - Kim Weston, MainArtist
℗ 2005 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Lamont Dozier, Producer, ComposerLyricist - Brian Holland, Producer, ComposerLyricist - Kim Weston, MainArtist
℗ 2005 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Kim Weston, MainArtist - Norman Whitfield, Producer, ComposerLyricist - William Mickey Stevenson, Producer, ComposerLyricist
℗ 2005 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Kim Weston, MainArtist - Jimmy Sherman, ComposerLyricist - William Mickey Stevenson, Producer, ComposerLyricist
℗ 2005 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Ivy Jo Hunter, Producer, ComposerLyricist - Kim Weston, MainArtist - William Mickey Stevenson, Producer, ComposerLyricist
℗ 2005 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Kim Weston, MainArtist - William Mickey Stevenson, Producer, ComposerLyricist - Spencer Sterling, ComposerLyricist
℗ 2005 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Ronald White, ComposerLyricist - Kim Weston, MainArtist - William Mickey Stevenson, Producer, ComposerLyricist - Ronnie White, Producer
℗ 1963 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Ronald White, Producer, ComposerLyricist - Kim Weston, MainArtist - William Mickey Stevenson, ComposerLyricist
℗ 2005 UMG Recordings, Inc.
William Robinson, Jr., ComposerLyricist - SMOKEY ROBINSON, Producer, Balance Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Kim Weston, MainArtist
℗ 2005 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Barrett Strong, ComposerLyricist - Kim Weston, MainArtist - Norman Whitfield, Producer, ComposerLyricist
℗ 2005 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Edward Holland Jr., ComposerLyricist - Lamont Dozier, Producer, ComposerLyricist - Brian Holland, Producer, ComposerLyricist - Kim Weston, MainArtist
℗ 2005 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Kim Weston, MainArtist - Robert Gordy, Producer, ComposerLyricist
℗ 2005 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Kim Weston, MainArtist - Bob Hamilton, Producer - Vicky Basemore, ComposerLyricist - Mike Valvano, Composer - Robert Hamilton, ComposerLyricist
℗ 2005 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Kim Weston, MainArtist - Ron Miller, ComposerLyricist - William Mickey Stevenson, Producer - Avery Vandenberg, ComposerLyricist
℗ 2005 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Kim Weston, MainArtist - Diane Steinberg, ComposerLyricist - William Mickey Stevenson, Producer - Kendall Lewis, ComposerLyricist - Laura Lucero, ComposerLyricist
℗ 2005 UMG Recordings, Inc.
William Stevenson, ComposerLyricist - Ivy Jo Hunter, Producer - Kim Weston, MainArtist - Ivy Joe Hunter, ComposerLyricist - William Mickey Stevenson, Producer
℗ 2005 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Kim Weston, MainArtist - William Mickey Stevenson, Producer, ComposerLyricist
℗ 2005 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Edward Holland Jr., ComposerLyricist - Lamont Dozier, Producer, ComposerLyricist - Eddie Holland, ComposerLyricist - Brian Holland, Producer, ComposerLyricist - Kim Weston, MainArtist
℗ 2005 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Kim Weston, MainArtist - Guy Wood, ComposerLyricist - William Mickey Stevenson, Producer - Henry B. Glover, ComposerLyricist - Edward Seiler, ComposerLyricist - Sally Nix, ComposerLyricist
℗ 2005 UMG Recordings, Inc.
William Robinson, Jr., Producer - SMOKEY ROBINSON, ComposerLyricist - Kim Weston, MainArtist
℗ 2005 UMG Recordings, Inc.
William Robinson, Jr., ComposerLyricist - SMOKEY ROBINSON, Producer - Kim Weston, MainArtist
℗ 2005 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Kim Weston, MainArtist - Robert Simon Staunton, ComposerLyricist - Robert Walker, Producer, ComposerLyricist - Robert Staunton, Producer
℗ 2005 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Sylvia Moy, ComposerLyricist - Ivy Jo Hunter, Producer - Kim Weston, MainArtist - Ivy Joe Hunter, ComposerLyricist - William Mickey Stevenson, Producer, ComposerLyricist
℗ 2005 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Kim Weston, MainArtist - William Mickey Stevenson, Producer - Unknown Writer, ComposerLyricist
℗ 2005 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Chronique
The two-CD, 48-track size of this anthology might be taken to signify a definitive collection of sorts of Kim Weston's recordings for Motown. But while it's of considerable use to Motown collectors, it has to be approached with some caution by less completist-oriented listeners, and can't be classified as a definitive best-of. For one thing, it doesn't include any of her duets with Marvin Gaye, instead being wholly devoted to solo recordings. In addition, the emphasis is very much on rare material, as no less than 34 of the cuts were previously unreleased. So while it does lead off with some of her more familiar Motown songs that actually did find official release in the '60s (including her hits "Take Me in Your Arms [Rock Me a Little While]" and "Helpless"), it's for the most part a dig through unexposed vaults, and doesn't even include all of the solo Motown tracks she put out during the '60s. With your expectations duly adjusted, this is still a worthwhile compilation of one of the Detroit label's less celebrated artists, though it doesn't reveal Weston as one of Motown's more talented ones. She was more likable than spectacular, with a softer, sometimes jazzier edge to her singing than most of her peers at the company, occasionally slightly reminiscent of Dionne Warwick. The jazzy inclination really comes out on "Love Trouble Heartache and Misery," one of the highlights among the unreleased numbers, and the similarity to Warwick is strong on "I Don't Know If I'm Coming or Going," though at other times Motown seemed to be trying to put her into a Mary Wells bag she really didn't fit. Greatest Hits & Rare Classics remains a preferable compilation for the general listener due to its greater and more thorough concentration on her official Motown discography (including her "It Takes Two" hit duet with Gaye). For the Motown fanatic, though, this does offer a lot of unreleased (if somewhat second-division) material penned by major writers at the label like Smokey Robinson and Mickey Stevenson, the most interesting of those tracks being the earlier ones, when the Motown sound wasn't as formulaic as it would become later in the 1960s.
© Richie Unterberger /TiVo
À propos
- 2 disque(s) - 48 piste(s)
- Durée totale : 02:10:27
- Artistes principaux : Kim Weston
- Compositeur : Various Composers
- Label : UNI - MOTOWN
- Genre : Soul/Funk/R&B R&B
© 2005 UMG Recordings, Inc. This Compilation ℗ 2005 UMG Recordings, Inc.
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