Definitive Performances: Motown DVDs

[KiwiCoromandel]

Simon Sweetman blogs on current MOTOWN reissues and releases...

With all of the celebrations for Motown's 50th Anniversary, there are some great reissues and some rather lacklustre compilations.....fairly safe and lazy collections, relying on marketing for the mainstream dollar. If you buy only one Motown collection make it this one - that seemed to be the logic.

So it's nice to see the start of the Definitive Performances DVDs - single-volume discs celebrating the work of key Motown acts.

I have had a look at the first four - not sure how many more will be released. But this is the sort of music project/product you don't see often anymore - particularly not from a major label reissue scheme; here are 60-120-minute-long DVDs aimed at the fans, not aimed at converting the clueless by way of an ad campaign.

These four DVDs will only appeal to people with an interest in The Temptations, The Four Tops, The Supremes and Smokey Robinson and The Miracles.

read more: http://www.stuff.co.nz/entertainment/blogs...e-Performances-

source: Blog-on-the-Tracks/stuff.co.nz

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[Redneck4sure]

These four DVDs will only appeal to people with an interest in The Temptations, The Four Tops, The Supremes and Smokey Robinson and The Miracles.

That would be me. I'll have to keep an eye out for those.