Standing In The Shadows Of Motown (Bonus Tracks) (2004) (Reissued/Remastered)

Product Summary Label: Universal Records UPC: 00044006636528 Release Date: 5/11/2004 Buy.com Sku: 61004809 Item#: MHJJ2J Format:  CD Song Listing Disc 1 Song Title Sample 1. Heat Wave, (Love Is Like A) - Joan Osborne ~ Original Soundtrack 2. You've Really Got A Hold On Me - Me'Shell NdegeOcello ~ Original Soundtrack 3. Do You Love Me - Bootsy Collins ~ Original Soundtrack 4. Bernadette - (TRUE instrumental) ~ Original Soundtrack 5. Reach Out I'll Be There - Gerald Levert ~ Original Soundtrack 6. Ain't Too Proud To Beg - Ben Harper ~ Original Soundtrack 7. Shotgun - Gerald Levert/Tom Scott ~ Original Soundtrack 8. What Becomes Of The Brokenhearted - Joan Osborne ~ Original Soundtrack 9. I Heard It Through The Grapevine - Ben Harper ~ Original Soundtrack 10. You Keep Me Hanging On - (TRUE instrumental) ~ Original Soundtrack 11. Cool Jerk - Bootsy Collins ~ Original Soundtrack 12. Cloud Nine - Me'Shell NdegeOcello ~ Original Soundtrack 13. What's Going On - Chaka Khan ~ Original Soundtrack 14. Band Introduction / Ain't No Mountain High Enough - Chaka Khan/Montell Jordan ~ Original Soundtrack 15. Flick, The - Earl Van Dyke ~ Original Soundtrack 16. Boom Boom - John Lee Hooker (Bonus Track) ~ Original Soundtrack 17. Higher And Higher, (Your Love Keeps Lifting Me) - Jackie Wilson (Bonus Track) ~ Original Soundtrack 18. Scorpio - Dennis Coffey & The Detroit Guitar Band (Bonus Track) ~ Original Soundtrack Disc 2 Song Title Sample 1. Funk Brothers In The House! ~ Original Soundtrack 2. Standing In The Shadows Of Love - Funk Brothers ~ Original Soundtrack 3. Dialogue: Joe Hunter ~ Original Soundtrack 4. One Who Really Loves You, The - Funk Brothers ~ Original Soundtrack 5. Pride And Joy - Funk Brothers ~ Original Soundtrack 6. Dialogue: Robert White ~ Original Soundtrack 7. My Girl - Funk Brothers ~ Original Soundtrack 8. Love Is Like An Itching In My Heart - Funk Brothers ~ Original Soundtrack 9. Don't Mess With Bill - Funk Brothers ~ Original Soundtrack 10. Hunter Gets Captured By The Game, The - Funk Brothers ~ Original Soundtrack 11. Dialogue: Eddie Willis, Uriel Jones & Jack Ashford ~ Original Soundtrack 12. I Second That Emotion - Funk Brothers ~ Original Soundtrack 13. I Was Made To Love Her - Funk Brothers ~ Original Soundtrack 14. Dialogue: Richard "Pistol" Allen ~ Original Soundtrack 15. I Heard It Through The Grapevine - Funk Brothers (Gladys version) ~ Original Soundtrack 16. Home Cookin' - Funk Brothers ~ Original Soundtrack 17. For Once In My Life - Funk Brothers ~ Original Soundtrack 18. Dialogue: Jack Ashford ~ Original Soundtrack 19. I Can't Get Next To You - Funk Brothers ~ Original Soundtrack 20. It's A Shame - Funk Brothers ~ Original Soundtrack 21. Ain't No Mountain High Enough - Funk Brothers (Ross version) ~ Original Soundtrack 22. Dialogue: Eddie Willis ~ Original Soundtrack 23. Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology) - Funk Brothers ~ Original Soundtrack 24. Dialogue: Lamont Dozier ~ Original Soundtrack 25. You're My Everything - The Temptations/James Jamerson (Bonus Track) ~ Original Soundtrack   Album Notes and Credits Notes & Personnel Info This deluxe edition of STANDING IN THE SHADOWS contains new live versions of classic hits sung by today's stars and backed by Motown's house band, the Funk Brothers. Included are four original, previously unreleased tracks from Motown's vaults and a bonus disc containing instrumental versions of the original hits. STANDING IN THE SHADOWS OF MOTOWN won the 2003 Grammy Award for Best Compilation Album For A Motion Picture Or Television. "What's Going On" (Chaka Khan) won the 2003 Grammy Award for Best Traditional R&B Vocal Performance. Personnel: Eddie Willis, Robert White , Joe Messina (guitar); Earl Van Dyke, Joe Hunter , Johnny Griffith (keyboards); Uriel Jones (vibraphone, percussion); Bob Babbitt, James Jamerson (bass guitar); Benny Benjamin, Richard "Pistol" Allen (drums); Eddie Brown (congas); The Funk Brothers. While there was certainly little to complain about on the original issue of the soundtrack for Standing in the Shadows of Motown, for those who truly sought the magic of the Funk Brothers, this deluxe edition is what they longed for all along. This two-disc collection contains the soundtrack of the Allan Slutsky/Harry Weinger film -- plus three bonus tracks -- from that historic night at the Royal Oak Music Theater just outside of Detroit. It pairs what was left of the original Motown session gang and their heirs with a host of vocalists, including Joan Osborne, Chaka Khan, Bootsy Collins, Montell Jordan, Me'Shell Ndeg?Ocello, Ben Harper, and Gerald LeVert interpreting the classics. The extra soundtrack cuts feature John Lee Hooker, Jackie Wilson, and Dennis Coffey with the Detroit Guitar Band. But on disc two, the entire grail becomes attainable. Here are 15 musical tracks, the original instrumental sides from "the Snakepit" of the Motown studios, with little or no vocal accompaniment, remixed from the ground up. The producers broke down and mapped out each verse, bridge, chorus, and vamp on paper first. Phone calls were made to the living members and then each tune was knotted together from the recorded evidence, using the input of the Funks and the added guitars of Dennis Coffey and Wah Wah Watson. What comes across is the Brothers zeroing in on and stretching the groove with grit, grease, and soul from the floor of Studio A. Here are the popping rhythms of "Standing in the Shadows of Love," "The One Who Really Loves You," Norman Whitfield's "Pride and Joy," and Smokey's "My Girl," along with the dubs of "The Hunter Gets Captured By the Game," "I Was Made to Love Her," "I Heard It Through the Grapevine," and more. Interspersed are dialogue tracks where the dwellers of the Snakepit speak, like Joe Hunter, Pistol Allen, Jack Ashford, et al. There is one cut that breaks the rules: the final selection on the disc, the version of "You're My Everything" with James Jamerson. Here are David Ruffin and Eddie Kendricks singing, handing off the lead vocal on tape with Jamerson punched in as a way of balancing the rhythm. It's just the Temps and Jamerson's bass running over the vocal arrangement. In other words, it's a whole different aspect of the "rhythm" track and perhaps the most startling evidence of how truly unique the Funk Brothers were. Certainly, a lot of this will piss off purists, but it can't be helped. For everyone else, this is a beautiful and moving document that offers what the soundtrack tried to, and is the real reason to make this purchase. It could have been made available on its own, but corporate marketing strategies being what they are, this is as good as it's going to get and the only way to get this bit of groove history. ~ Thom Jurek   Technical Info Release Date : 05/11/2004 Original Release Date : 2004 Catalog ID : 440066365 Label : Hip-O Records Number of Discs : 2 Studio/Live : Mixed Mono/Stereo : Stereo SPAR Code : n/a UPC : 00044006636528   Professional Reviews Q (p.127) - 4 stars out of 5 - "The hero is the late James Jamerson - his stunningly free basslines still affect brain and body like little else." Uncut (9/03, p.106) - 3 stars out of 5 - "...The old dudes remain innately fluid..."    Related Videos 500 Days of Summer: Sound...