The Definitive Collection

Tracklist

• 1
  The Way You Do the Things You Do
  2:41
  2.5 ★
• 2
  My Girl
  2:44
  4.5 ★
• 3
  It’s Growing
  2:58
  2.0 ★
• 4
  Since I Lost My Baby
  2:51
  2.0 ★
• 5
  Don’t Look Back
  2:50
• 6
  Get Ready
  2:39
  4.0 ★
• 7
  Ain’t Too Proud to Beg
  2:33
  4.4 ★
• 8
  (I Know) I’m Losing You
  2:29
  3.5 ★
• 9
  You’re My Everything
  2:57
  3.4 ★
• 10
  I Wish It Would Rain
  2:47
  3.6 ★
• 11
  Cloud Nine
  3:30
  3.6 ★
• 12
  I Can’t Get Next to You
  2:51
  2.5 ★
• 13
  Ball of Confusion (That’s What the World Is Today) (single version)
  4:05
• 14
  Just My Imagination (Running Away With Me) (single version)
  3:48
  4.4 ★
• 15
  Papa Was a Rollin’ Stone (single version)
  6:59
  3.4 ★
• 16
  Shakey Ground
  4:03
  2.5 ★
• 17
  Treat Her Like a Lady (single version)
  4:16
  3.5 ★
• 18
  Stay
  4:48
  2.0 ★

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Release credits

• Al McKay
  producer [17]
• Ali Ollie Woodson
  lead vocals [17]
• Benny Benjamin
  drums (drum set) [2]
• Berry Gordy
  producer [16]
• Christina Paakkari
  assistant [18]
• Damon Harris
  lead vocals [15]
• David Frazer
  mix [18], recording [18]
• David Ruffin
  background vocals [1, 6], lead vocals [2-4, 7-8]
• Dennis Edwards
  lead vocals [11-12, 15-16]
• Detroit Symphony Orchestra
  strings [2]
• Eddie Kendricks
  background vocals [2, 7], lead vocals [1, 6, 9, 11-12, 14]
• James Anthony Carmichael
  horn [16]
• James Fischer
  bass [18], drums (drum set) [18], keyboard [18], programming [18], recording [18]
• James Jamerson
  bass [2]
• Jeffrey Bowen
  producer [16]
• Jerry Hey
  conductor [18], strings [18]
• Marc Reyburn
  assistant [18]
• Melvin Franklin
  background vocals [1, 6-7], lead vocals [6], vocal [12]
• Narada Michael Walden
  arranger [18], drums (drum set) [18], producer [18], tambourine [18]
• Norman Whitfield
  producer [7-12, 14-15]
• Otis Williams
  background vocals [1-2, 6-7], vocal [12]
• Paul Riser
  arranger [15], conductor [15], strings [2]
• Paul Williams
  background vocals [1-2, 6-7], lead vocals [5, 11-12]
• Ralph Johnson
  producer [17]
• Ralph Morrison III
  concertmaster [18]
• Richard Street
  lead vocals [15]
• Robert White
  guitar [2]
• Ronald White
  producer [2]
• Smokey Robinson
  producer [1-6]
• Suzee Ikeda
  executive [17]
• The Andantes
  background vocals [3]
• The Funk Brothers
  instrument [1-2, 6-7, 12]
• The Temptations
  performer [2], vocal [14]
• Victor Carstarphen
  arranger [17]
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