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Brenda Holloway made some truly superb recordings with Motown - most of them are represented here on this album which is a bargain in anyone's books. There are so many classic tracks it's hard to know where to begin. My favourite Brenda Holloway track is I'll Always Love You (not the same song as the release from The Detroit Spinners also on Motown) - an excellent deep soul side which was issued as a single in the USA and made one various artists EP in the UK as well as Brenda's only UK Tamla Motown album - The Artistry of Brenda Holloway. It also featured on a classic album Motown Memoriesmore… Volume 2 (TML11077) back in the 60s. Co-incidentally, Together Til The End of Time was on the first Motown Memories album (TML11064) and was actually released as a UK single. Fantastic song and performance.Every Little Bit Hurts is probably Brenda's best known work and this song was recorded by many different artists in the 60s including The Small Faces.When I'm Gone - another song released on several albums and covered by many other artists. Rightly so. Brenda improves on Mary Wells' original version I think. Worth the price of the album on it's own.Some excellent dancers also feature, witness Just Look What You've Done andStarting the Hurt All Over Again. Both tracks featured on the Motown Disco Classics series of albums in the 70s. Brenda co-wrote You've Made Me So Very Happy - personally I've always preferred her version to the more famous one by Blood, Sweat and Tears. Smokey Robinson had a hand in many of Brenda's tracks - Who's Lovin You, When I'm Gone, I'll Be Available for example. Berry Gordy himself wrote You Can Cry On My Shoulder.In addition to the above, I can recommend Hurt A Little Everyday (in the same genre as Every Little Bit Hurts and I'll Always Love You), Where Were You (written by the Lewis Sisters), How Many Times Did You Mean It, Operator and I've Got To Find It.The only one from this album which is a dud (in my opinion) is Unchained Melody. There are many much better versions of this song out there. So what's missing ?There was loads of material in the can by Brenda, some of this is now seeing the light of day and being released on Motown compilation CDs. Try Reconsider from the This is Northern Soul series or other unreleased tracks from Ms Holloway on A Cellarful of Motown. In fact there could be enough stuff around for a second Brenda Holloway Greatest Hits and rare Classics CD.Finally, could Motown please, please, release the original Brenda Holloway album on CD, including original artwork, which was issued on the Tamla label in the USA back in the sixties.

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Brenda Holloway - Greatest Hits & Rare Classics (1998) Retail CD

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