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T.A.M.I. Show DVD gets UK release

Written by admin on February 27, 2011 – 10:26 pm -

The T.A.M.I. Show Collector's Edition DVD Finally, the excellent “T.A.M.I. Show” is out on DVD in the UK. The DVD was released in March 2010 in the US and was one of the best music DVD releases of the year.

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“Meet the Supremes” expanded edition

Written by admin on May 20, 2010 – 9:03 pm -

Fans of Diana Ross have been enjoying the Motown legend’s triumphant return to live performance this week and now they have another reason to celebrate with the release of an expanded two-CD version of the “Meet the Supremes” album.

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T.A.M.I. Show DVD – review

Written by admin on April 23, 2010 – 9:33 pm -

Harley Payette reviews the long awaited T.A.M.I. Show DVD, which is one of the “must have” music DVDs of 2010.

When I bought Shout Factory’s first ever issue of the legendary lost concert film The TAMI Show, my night was shot. I spent two hours watching the movie. Then there were another two plus hours soaking up the special features and replaying favorite moments. Then there was the trip to my CD collection to revisit the original recordings of all the great hits I had heard in the show.

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Motown around the World – The Classic Singles

Written by admin on April 20, 2010 – 7:03 am -

Motown collectors can now obtain all the label’s foreign language recordings on a 2-CD set from Hip-o Select.

With the Motown Records fan base spreading across Europe in the 1960s, the company decided that its major stars should perform foreign language versions of their hits to appeal to these markets. This new 2-CD set includes all 38 of these tracks from The Supremes, The Temptations, The Miracles, The Four Tops, Marvin Gaye, Martha Reeves & the Vandellas, Edwin Starr, Jimmy Ruffin, and the Velvelettes.

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Pop legends say “Things Go Better with Coke”

Written by admin on April 8, 2010 – 4:46 pm -

Before the New Seekers had the world singing along to “I’d Like to Buy the World a Coke” in 1971, dozens of the biggest artists of the 1960s, including Marvin Gaye, Tom Jones, The Supremes and Roy Orbison, had recorded a Coca-Cola jingle as part of the “Things Go Better with Coke” campaign.

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