Released September 1970 Length 44:16 Artist Marvin Gaye Label Tamla | Recorded 1962–69 Super Hits
(1970) What's Going On
(1971) Release date September 1970 | |
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Genres Soul music, Rhythm and blues, Funk Producers William Stevenson, Lamont Dozier, Frank Wilson, Norman Whitfield, Smokey Robinson Similar Motown Remembers Marvin G, Marvin Gaye and His Girls, That Stubborn Kinda Fel, Moods of Marvin Gaye, Greatest Hits - Vol 2 | ||
Super Hits is a 1970 compilation album released by American soul singer Marvin Gaye on the Tamla label. It compiles Gaye's string of pop-R&B songs he recorded during 1962 to 1969.
Contents
Critical reception
Music critic Robert Christgau viewed Super Hits as the best album released by Motown. In a retrospective review, Allmusic's Ron Wynn gave it four-and-a-half out of five stars and called it "a fabulous anthology, one of the best ones Motown ever released." The New Rolling Stone Record Guide (1983) gave Super Hits four out of five stars.
A similarly titled compilation album was released in 2001 by Legacy Records and Sony Music, which The Rolling Stone Album Guide (2004) warned was "not the wonderful 1970 Motown collection, now deleted, but a budget set of Midnight Love material."
Track listing
- "I Heard It Through the Grapevine" (3:13)
- "Pride and Joy" (2:04)
- "The End of Our Road" (2:49)
- "Ain't That Peculiar" (2:57)
- "Stubborn Kind of Fellow" (2:44)
- "Can I Get a Witness" (2:48)
- "How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved By You)" (2:49)
- "That's the Way Love Is" (3:34)
- "Too Busy Thinking About My Baby" (2:53)
- "Chained" (2:38)
- "You're a Wonderful One" (2:40)
- "Try It Baby" (2:56)
- "I'll Be Doggone" (2:48)
- "Hitch Hike" (2:25)
- "You" (2:26)
- "Baby Don't You Do It" (2:32)
Songs
1I Heard It Through the Grapevine3:20
2Pride and Joy2:13
3The End of Our Road2:56