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1970 greatest hits album by Marvin Gaye
Super Hits is a
compilation album by American
soul singer, songwriter, and producer
Marvin Gaye . It was released in 1970 by
Motown 's subsidiary
Tamla Records and compiles Gaye's
pop-R&B singles recorded from 1962 to 1969.
[2]
Cover art
The album's cover art is a cartoon illustration created by artist
Carl Owens . It depicts Gaye as a muscle-bound
superhero flying high in the sky and catching a cracked antenna from the
WHIT radio station. A voluptuous, scantily-clad black woman is also shown clutching at his neck and waist for safety. Author and Gaye biographer
David Ritz calls the cover "the perfect artistic expression of Marvin's mystique at that point of his career – Gaye as an established
sex symbol ".
[3]
Critical reception
Music critic
Robert Christgau views Super Hits as the best album released by
Motown
[6] and includes it in his "Basic Record Library" of 1950s and 1960s recordings, published in
Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies (1981).
[7]
AllMusic 's Ron Wynn regards it as "a fabulous anthology, one of the best ones Motown ever released".
[4]
A similarly titled compilation album was released in 2001 by
Legacy Records and
Sony Music ,
[8] which
The New Rolling Stone Album Guide (2004) warns is "not the wonderful 1970 Motown collection, now deleted, but a budget set of
Midnight Love material".
[9]
Track listing
Side one
"
I Heard It Through the Grapevine " (
Norman Whitfield ,
Barrett Strong ) – 3:10
"
Pride and Joy " (Whitfield,
Marvin Gaye ,
Mickey Stevenson ) – 2:09
"
The End of Our Road " (
Roger Penzabene , Whitfield, Strong) – 2:49
"
Ain't That Peculiar " (
Smokey Robinson ,
Marv Tarplin ,
Bobby Rogers ,
Pete Moore ) – 2:57
"
Stubborn Kind of Fellow " (Gaye, George Gordy,
Mickey Stevenson ) – 2:47
"
Can I Get a Witness " (
Brian Holland ,
Lamont Dozier ,
Eddie Holland ) – 2:46
"
How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved By You) " (Holland, Dozier, Holland) – 2:59
"
That's the Way Love Is " (Whitfield, Strong) – 3:15
Side two
"
Too Busy Thinking About My Baby " (Whitfield,
Janie Bradford , Strong) – 2:54
"
Chained " (
Frank Wilson ) – 2:37
"
You're a Wonderful One " (Holland, Dozier, Holland) – 2:44
"
Try It Baby " (
Berry Gordy ) – 2:57
"
I'll Be Doggone " (Robinson, Moore, Tarplin) – 2:47
"
Hitch Hike " (Gaye,
Clarence Paul , Stevenson) – 2:27
"
You " (Jack Goga,
Ivy Jo Hunter ,
Jeffrey Bowen ) – 2:46
"
Baby Don't You Do It " (Holland, Dozier, Holland) – 2:40
References
^ Ben Edmonds (2002).
What's Going On?: Marvin Gaye and the Last Days of the Motown Sound .
Canongate U.S. p. 280.
ISBN
1841953148 . Retrieved July 3, 2013 .
^ Marcus, Greil, ed. (2007) [1979]. Stranded: Rock and Roll for a Desert Island (2nd ed.).
Da Capo Press . p. 271.
ISBN
978-0306815324 .
^
Ritz, David (2009) [1985]. "14: Games".
Divided Soul: The Life of Marvin Gaye .
Hachette Books .
ISBN
9780786730469 .
^
a
b Wynn, Ron.
"Super Hits [Motown] – Marvin Gaye" .
Allmusic . Retrieved July 3, 2013 .
^ Dave Marsh, John Swenson (1983).
The New Rolling Stone Record Guide .
Random House ,
Rolling Stone Press . p.
193 .
ISBN
0394721071 .
^
"Rock Critic's Choice: Top Ten" .
Robert Christgau . Retrieved July 3, 2013 .
^
Christgau, Robert (1981).
"A Basic Record Library: The Fifties and Sixties" .
Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies .
Ticknor & Fields .
ISBN
0899190251 . Retrieved March 16, 2019 – via robertchristgau.com.
^
"Super Hits – Marvin Gaye" . Allmusic. Retrieved July 3, 2013 .
^ Edmonds, Ben (2004). "Marvin Gaye". In Brackett, Nathan; Hoard, Christian (eds.).
The New Rolling Stone Album Guide .
Simon & Schuster . p. 326.
ISBN
0-7432-0169-8 .
External links
Studio albums Duet albums Compilations Live albums Video albums US/UK top ten singles
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