Various - Motown Sings Motown Treasures Volumes 1+2

Track annotations w/ stories
[1.]9. Ask Any Man - Tony Martin
Originally issued as single Motown 1088, December 1965
[1.]16. Can I Get A Witness - The Supremes
Original 1966 Mix; Alternate mix version first issued on the album The Supremes Never-Before-Released-Masters, Motown 9075, 1987
[1.]20. The Tracks Of My Tears - Martha & The Vandellas
First issued on Motown Sings Motown Superstars, Motown 5310, May 1983
[1.]22. My Girl - Marvin Gaye
First issued on the 4-CD box set, The Marvin Gaye Collection, Motown 6311, 1990
[1.]23. Truly Yours - The Temptations
First issued on the album The Temptations 25th Anniversary, Motown 5389, 1986
[2.]14. Shop Around - The Spinners
First issued on the Motown Sings Motown Superstars, Motown 5310, May 1983

All tracks previously unreleased except as noted above, and here - MOTOWN SINGS MOTOWN TREASURES: THE ULTIMATE MOTOWN COLLECTION VOL. 1 was issued as CD collection Motown 0960, September 1998, and included the following 21 tracks:
Disc 1 - #2 (mono), 5, 10, 13, 14, 15, 16, 18, 19, 20, 22, 23
Disc 2 - #1, 5, 6, 10, 13, 16, 17, 18, 22

Release credits
Special thanks to Keith Hughes, Chris Jenner, John Lester, Paul Nixon and Andrew Skurow
Original VOLUME 1 co-produced by Georgia Ward

Digitally remastered by Suha Gur at Universal Mastering Studios-East
All songs recorded with the Funk Brothers in Motown's Studio A, except as noted
All songs mastered from the original Hitsville Detroit tapes, except:
Money (That's What I Want), Forever, Love (Makes Me Do Foolish Things)*,Ask The Lonely, Truly Yours (IJH version), What Becomes Of The Brokenhearted AKA Smile (Isleys), Baby I'm For Real (The Bells)*, Just Seven Numbers (Can Straighten Out My Life) and Loving You Is Sweeter Than Ever* mixed from the original session masters by Suha Gur and *Kevin Reeves. You Ain't Livin' Till You're Lovin' mixed by Tom Moulton.
Shop Around and The Tracks Of My Tears mixed by Russ Terrana at Motown's Hitsville West, Hollywood, CA, and My Girl mixed by Roger Nichols at Sound Works West, W. Hollywood, Ca, for their respective original compilations.

Design by Greg Ross for Orabur
Photos: Motown Records Archivesm except digipak, booklet exterior: Wan Seub Lee/Motown Records Archives; pg. 28 (left): courtesy of Allan Slutsky; pg. 31: David Yellen

(C) 2004 Motown Records, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc. B0003619-02

Non-release notes
From Hip-O Select: CD Edition limited to 5000 non-numbered limited edition copies.

All vocal and musician credits taken from the track stories written by Harry Weinger.

This release shows the artist on 1.08 "Ask The Lonely" as Tommy Good. However, this fact has been disputed by the artist, Motown fans, as well as several of the compilers themselves since. Several other Motown singers have been suggested, and in April 2008, Ivy Jo Hunter confirmed that it is him singing on the track.