Essential Collection

Tracklist

• 1
  Baby I Need Your Loving
  2:45
  4.5 ★
• 2
  Ask the Lonely
  2:48
• 3
  I Can’t Help Myself (Sugar Pie, Honey Bunch)
  2:45
  3.6 ★
• 4
  It’s the Same Old Song
  2:46
  4.0 ★
• 5
  Reach Out I’ll Be There
  3:02
  5.0 ★
• 6
  Standing in the Shadows of Love
  2:39
  4.8 ★
• 7
  Shake Me, Wake Me (When It’s Over)
  2:44
• 8
  Bernadette
  3:02
  4.0 ★
• 9
  Walk Away Renee
  2:45
  3.0 ★
• 10
  You Keep Running Away
  2:51
• 11
  If I Were a Carpenter
  2:52
  3.0 ★
• 12
  Still Water (Love)
  3:14
• 13
  It’s All in the Game
  2:52
• 14
  (It’s the Way) Nature Planned It
  3:40
• 15
  Ain’t No Woman (Like the One I’ve Got) (album version)
  3:06
• 16
  Keeper of the Castle (album version)
  3:00
• 17
  Are You Man Enough
  3:28
• 18
  Sweet Understanding Love
  3:02
• 19
  One Chain Don’t Make No Prison
  3:31
• 20
  Midnight Flower
  3:33
• 21
  Catfish
  3:49
• 22
  When She Was My Girl
  3:25
• 23
  I Just Can’t Walk Away
  4:23
• 24
  I Believe in You and Me
  3:59

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I Can't Help Myself (Sugar Pie, Honey Bunch) / Sad Souvenirs

I Can't Help Myself (Sugar Pie, Honey Bunch) / Sad Souvenirs 1965

Release credits

• Abdul “Duke” Fakir
  background vocals [3-4]
• Andrew “Mike” Terry
  baritone saxophone [3-4]
• Benny Benjamin
  drums (drum set) [4]
• Berry Gordy
  executive [23]
• Brian Holland
  producer [1, 3-11, 23]
• Brian Potter
  producer [15-20]
• Dana G. Smart
  co
• David Wolfert
  producer [22, 24]
• Dennis Lambert
  arranger [17], producer [15-20], strings [15]
• Detroit Symphony Orchestra
  strings [3-4]
• Don Hockett
  arranger [17], strings [15]
• Earl Van Dyke
  piano [3-4]
• Eddie Holland
  producer [23]
• Eddie Willis
  guitar [3-4]
• Erick Labson
  mastering
• Frank Wilson
  producer [12-14]
• Gil Askey
  arranger [18]
• Ilene Weingard
  art direction
• Ivy Jo Hunter
  producer [2]
• Jack Ashford
  tambourine [3-4]
• Jack Brokensha
  vibraphone [3-4]
• Jackie Hicks
  background vocals [3-4]
• James Jamerson
  bass [3-4]
• Jeremy Lubbock
  strings [23]
• Jerry Long
  arranger [12-14]
• Jimmy Roach
  arranger [12-13]
• Joe Messina
  guitar [3-4]
• John Barnes
  arranger [23], synthesizer [23]
• Lamont Dozier
  producer [1, 3-11, 23]
• Lawrence Payton
  background vocals [3-4], producer [21], vocal arranger [22, 24]
• Lawrence T. Horn
  recording [4]
• Levi Stubbs
  lead vocals [3-4]
• Louvain Demps
  background vocals [3-4]
• Marlene Barrow
  background vocals [3-4]
• Michael Omartian
  arranger [19-20]
• Michele Horie
  task
• Pat Lawrence
  task
• Renaldo Benson
  background vocals [3-4]
• Richard "Pistol" Allen
  drums (drum set) [3]
• Robert L. Gordy
  mix [4]
• Robert White
  guitar [3-4]
• Robin Schwartz
  task
• Russ Terrana
  recording [3]
• Steve Barri
  producer [15-20]
• Steven Ivory
  liner notes
• The Andantes
  background vocals [3]
• The Funk Brothers
  instrument [3]
• Vartan
  art direction
• William Stevenson
  producer [2]
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  Essential Collection

  CD
  7 November 2000