Dramatically Yours
Artist: The Dramatics
Community Score: 10.00

One of their finest albums. The Dramatics had solidified their sound and personnel in the early '70s. L.J. Reynolds was now doing the leads, with Ron Banks' feathery falsetto and Willie Ford's booming baritone perfectly positioned at the top and bottom of the arrangements, and Reynolds and Lenny Mayes right in the center. Although they didn't... Read More

At His Best
Artist: Eddie Kendricks

While Eddie Kendrick (or Kendricks) never made as much impact on his own as he did with The Temptations, he still made some fine singles as a solo artist on Motown. These are included on this anthology, and while three or four great tunes usually aren't enough to merit an anthology, Motown has issued them by artists who had even fewer. "Keep on... Read More

Anthology - 1973
Artist: Smokey Robinson & the Miracles
Community Score: 5.00
1957-1972
Artist: Smokey Robinson & the Miracles

1957-1972 (1972) is arguably a misleading title for this nearly hour-long live package featuring the final run of concert appearances from the Miracles with Smokey Robinson as frontman. While the music in the program does span the combo's entire career (1957-1972), the actual performances took place July 14-16, 1972 as part of the festivities... Read More

One Dozen Roses
Artist: Smokey Robinson & the Miracles
Community Score: 5.00

One of their better latter-period albums. Though the singles ("The Tears of a Clown," "I Don't Blame You At All," the lovely "Satisfaction") were the focal points of the set, the real gem is "No Wonder Love's a Wonder," a haunting, socially conscious ballad where Smokey Robinson speaks the lyrics as the Miracles harmonize in the background. It... Read More

Diana & Marvin
Artist: Marvin Gaye
Community Score: 10.00

By the early '70s, Diana Ross and Marvin Gaye were in completely different creative territories. Ross was settling down as a professional diva, while Gaye was pushing his art forward with What's Going On, Trouble Man, and Let's Get It On. What they shared, apart from a mutual admiration, was that they were two of the biggest artists on Motown... Read More

Anthology - 1986
Artist: Diana Ross & the Supremes

When it was released in 1974, Motown's Diana Ross and the Supremes Anthology was the most comprehensive compilation yet issued on one of the 1960s' most popular groups. A 35-track triple LP, it superseded the 1967 double-LP Greatest Hits, including 17 of that album's 20 tracks, as well as the 1969 Greatest Hits, Volume 3, all of which was... Read More

Eddie Kendricks
Artist: Eddie Kendricks
Community Score: 10.00

Though not worthy of lost-classic status like My People...Hold On, this self-titled effort is one of Kendricks' best of the early '70s. "Each Day I Cry a Little" is a painful ballad made even more gut-wrenching by the singer's strained vocals, and "Keep on Truckin" is a great uptempo soul romp that can be heard on any classic-soul station of... Read More

ABC
Artist: The Jackson 5
Community Score: 6.00

Not even six months after the Jackson 5 -- Jackie, Jermaine, Marlon, Michael, and Tito -- issued their debut long-player, Diana Ross Presents the Jackson 5 (1969), the vocal quintet returned with ABC (1970), arguably the brothers' most solid effort of the early '70s. The Jacksons' collective (and respective) talents, coupled with exemplary... Read More

The Greatest Hits - 1971
Artist: The Jackson 5

The Jackson 5's first Greatest Hits album remains an excellent summation of the group's first few years, boasting 11 of their biggest hits, including "I Want You Back," "ABC," "Never Can Say Goodbye," "I'll Be There" and "Who's Lovin' You." Although this is a fine record for what it is, it has been replaced many times over the next 25 years, and... Read More

Greatest Hits
Artist: Diana Ross & the Supremes

Although all of these 20 songs were credited to The Supremes when they were released between 1963 and 1967, this album marked the first LP on which the group was billed as "Diana Ross and the Supremes." However you credit it, this out-of-print double-LP contains the bulk of the best of The Supremes, no less than 10 #1 hits from "Where Did Our... Read More