Various - The Complete Motown Singles | Vol. 6: 1966

Track-by-track annotations by Bill Dahl and Keith Hughes, edited and augmented by Harry Weinger.

Bill Dahl of Chicago has written hundreds of album reviews, feature stories and various articles about music and musicians. He has been nominated for a Grammy(R) award for his notes to Ray Charles' Genius & Soul: The 50th Anniversary Collection. With Weldon A. McDougal III, Dahl is the author of Motown: The Golden Years.

Keith Hughes of Wantage, England, is the author of Don't Forget The Motor City, a Motown discography, and he has written articles for a variety of soul magazines. His research has appeared in a number of CD compilations.

Bilboard chart information courtesy of VNU Buisness Media and Joel Whitburn's Record Research Inc.

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Digitally re-mastered from the original analog single master tapes by Ellen Fitton at Universal Mastering Studios-East.

It was necessary to use as sources the original mint vinyl singles for the tracks Lorraine Alterman Interviews Marvin Gaye and The Teen Beat Song.

With Thanks To: All of the artists and Motown staffers who contributed their memories, and to the Motown Winners' Circle (Chris Jenner, John Lester, Paul Nixon and Andrew Skurow); Bill Levenson, Ritchie Hardin, Martin Hughes, and Eric Charge; also many thanks to Barry Korkin, Tom Ryan and the Motown collectors and fans all over the world who have shared their insights and often their personal insights.

Our gratitude to Berry Gordy, the Gordy family, the artists, musicians, engineers, writers, producers, arrangers, handclappers and footstompers at 2468 West Grand Boulevard and elsewhere in the expanding empire.

Photographs courtesy of Motown Records Archives except as follows: Pg. 12: The Detroit News; Pgs. 17, 25 (bottom), 99: Courtesy David Bell and Barry Murphy; Pgs. 19, 26, 31, 65, 108: Courtesy Gilles Pétard Collection; Pg. 21: Courtesy Peter Benjaminson; Pg. 39: Jones Family Archives; Pg. 40: Courtesy Rickman Mason and Nick Warburton; Pg. 43: Courtesy Marvin Post/Motown Records Archives; Pg. 74: Jean Mohr/Courtesy Gilles Petárd; Single labels & picture sleeves courtesy Lars "LG" Nilsson, Gary Johns and Motown Records Archives.

Note: The cover sleeve is a modern mock-up using single picture sleeves from the year. It is not intended as an exact representation of Motown singles "bags", which in the era were mostly plain white.

(C) 2006 Motown Records, a division of UMG Recordings, Inc. Distributed by Universal Music Distribution.

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Non-Release Notes

CD Edition limited to 6000 non-numbered limited edition copies.

Disc 1-5 corresponds to 28-32 in The Complete Motown Singles series.

All musician credits and additional backing vocals, production, engineering and songwriting credits taken from the track-by-track annotations and essays.