Dance Party/Watchout! [Import]

1. Dancig in the Street
2. Dancing Slow
3. Wild One
4. Nowhere to Hide
5. Nobody'll Care
6. There He Is (At My Door)
7. Mobile Lil the Dancing Witch
8. Dance Party
9. Motoring
10. Jerk
11. Mickey's Monkey
12. Hitch Hike
13. I'm Ready for Your Love
14. One Way Out
15. Jimmy Mack
16. Let This Day Be
17. Keep It Up
18. Happiness Is Guaranteed
19. I'll Follow You
20. No More Tearstained Make Up
See all 27 tracks on this disc

Editorial Reviews

Product Description
UK two-on-one remastered reissue includes 'Dance Party' (1965) & 'Watchout!' (1966) plus three bonus tracks, 'Third Finger, Left Hand' (Previously Unreleased Stereo Mix), 'Can't Break The Habit' (Previously Unreleased Stereo Mix) & 'No More Tearstained Make Up' (Previously Unreleased Alternative Take). Slimline 2CD case housed in a slipcase with one CD.

Dance Party/Watchout!,Martha & the Vandellas,Import [Generic],Girl Group,Motown,Oldies,Pop,Pop-Soul,R&B,R&B/Soul,Soul

Average customer rating:

Finger-clickin' genius
Their 2 best LP's on one disc!!
The Vandellas at their Greatest
"There'll be laughter, singin' and music swingin'..."
Great sixties R+B dance music

Dance Party/Watchout!
Martha & the Vandellas
Manufacturer: Import [Generic]
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

Classic R&B | R&B | Styles | Music

General | R&B | Styles | Music

Motown | R&B | Styles | Music

General | Soul | R&B | Styles | Music

Girl Groups | Oldies | Pop | Styles | Music

General | Oldies | Pop | Styles | Music

R&B | Imports | Stores | Music
Similar Items:

Come and Get These Memories/Heat Wave
Ridin' High/Sugar n' Spice
Natural Resources / Black Magic
Love Child/Supremes A-Go-Go
Reflections: The Definitive Performances 1964-1969

ASIN: B0000647GR
Release Date: 2004-01-06

Tracks:

Dancig in the Street
Dancing Slow
Wild One
Nowhere to Hide
Nobody'll Care
There He Is (At My Door)
Mobile Lil the Dancing Witch
Dance Party
Motoring
Jerk
Mickey's Monkey
Hitch Hike
I'm Ready for Your Love
One Way Out
Jimmy Mack
Let This Day Be
Keep It Up
Happiness Is Guaranteed
I'll Follow You
No More Tearstained Make Up
Go Ahead and Laugh
What Am I Going to Do Without Your Love
Tell Me I'll Never Be Alone
He Doesn't Love Her Anymore
Third Finger, Left Hand [Stereo Mix][#][*]
Can't Break the Habit [Stereo Mix][#][*]
No More Tearstained Make Up [Alternate Take][#][*]

Album Description

UK two-on-one remastered reissue includes 'Dance Party' (1965) & 'Watchout!' (1966) plus three bonus tracks, 'Third Finger, Left Hand' (Previously Unreleased Stereo Mix), 'Can't Break The Habit' (Previously Unreleased Stereo Mix) & 'No More Tearstained Make Up' (Previously Unreleased Alternative Take). Slimline 2CD case housed in a slipcase with one CD.

Album Details

Digitally Remastered Two Original Albums on a Single CD.

Customer Reviews:

Finger-clickin' genius.......2005-09-25

Dance Party kicks off with the timeless classic hit Dancing In The Street (turned down by Kim Weston) and also has Nowhere To Run and Wild One, along with their B-sides, both having already been big hit singles when the album came out in April 1965. One of these, There He Is (At My Door), dated from 1963, and was originally on the album Come And Get These Memories, but has a new vocal on this version. By 1965 Martha's Vandellas were Betty Kelly and Rosalind Ashford, both from Detroit.
Most of the album was co-produced by Mickey Stevenson, but three were Brian Holland and Lamont Dozier productions, including Nowhere To Run and their version of the Motown dance standard Mickey's Monkey, written for the Miracles. They had sung on Marvin Gaye's original version of Hitch Hike in September 1962, and their own version was held over from the same period. It completes the album in fine style, to make up a first rate dance party record in the true Motown idiom, full of finger-clicking rhythms, generous percussion and punchy horns and brass.
Watchout! was the follow-up album in 1966 and contains the hit songs Jimmy Mack (held over from 1964, it was to be remixed for single release in 1967) and I'm Ready For Love, which features the archetypal 1966 Motown sound with those great bass runs. What Am I Going To Do Without Your Love was also a single but had left the charts largely untroubled. On the other hand, Third Finger Left Hand, the B-side of Jimmy Mack and also rescued from a 1964 recording session, is a great Holland-Dozier-Holland song which went on to became a hit in its own right. It wasn't on the original album but is included on this double-length CD as a bonus track, along with two other previously unreleased stereo mixes. One Way Out is a true floor-filler and was to come out as a B-side the following year. There are more ballads than dance floor numbers on this record, including two songs written by Smokey Robinson. One is a total scorcher called No More Tearstained Make Up. This may have been considered as a single at one time as a longer alternative version appears as an extra track.
Missing from this (and the other albums in the series) are the non-album singles from this period, In My Lonely Room/A Tear For The Girl (1964); You've Been In Love Too Long/Love (Makes Me Do Foolish Things)(1965); and My Baby Loves Me/Never Leave Your Baby's Side (1966).
Two essential Martha and the Vandellas albums on one good value all-stereo CD (note though that the mono mixes of some of these tracks were slightly longer).

Their 2 best LP's on one disc!!.......2004-03-22

And leave it to the E.M.I. Studios to do the honors. Not only every righteous track from Dance Party and Watchout! are included, but also three bonus tracks. We have first time ever stereo mixes of Third Finger, Left Hand (B-side of Jimmy Mack), and the unreleased Can't Break the Habit, which appeared in the early 80's on a compilation L.P. entitled "Motown Superstars: The Unreleased Masters" or something. "No More Tearstained Makeup" from Watchout! is one my favorites. The lyrics (Smokey Robinson, of course) are so captivating the listener hangs on every word. Dance Party contains the three singles from their heady days of late 1964 to early 1965; Dancing in the Street, Wild One and Nowhere to Run. Obviously, the latter was the final run of "Can't Break The Habit", which sounds as if Martha becomes disinterested half way through. "Run" is far more consistant and soulful making its way into the national top ten. There He Is (At My Door) is a throwback to the track on Come And Get These Memories. The vocal was re-done and is stronger. (Collector's Note: The original version was recorded by the first incarnation of the Vandellas, The Vells with Gloria Williams singing lead. This group didn't last and Martha became the lead singer and the rest, as they say...) Watchout! contains two singles, proper: the less popular, but certainly ambitious What am I Going to do Without Your Love (Sylvia Moy, Mickey Stevenson)and Holland-Dozier-Holland tour de force, I'm Ready For Love, again a national top ten hit. Jimmy Mack, an album track of high degree, was re-mixed in an uptempo beat and released as a single the following year (1967). Perhaps the underdog on the album is the re-make of an earlier Kim Weston single, Go Ahead and Laugh. A true jazz ballad in the tradition of Love Makes Me Do Foolish Things, this is torch balladry at its best. These two albums have stood the test of time just as much as (dare I say it?) Rubber Soul and Pet Sounds. I don't mean they are as daring and innovative, but for these ladies, they are not to be missed. If you missed thier re-issue in the States in the 80's, don't miss them this time around.

The Vandellas at their Greatest.......2003-12-05

Well The Andantes may have been helping out numerous times by this point in The Vandellas Career , The Vandellas had their peak LP's with these two. What strikes me as odd is why Motown neglected to release "Can't Break the Habit" as the follow up to "Nowhere to Run"(although it isn't as lyrically interesting as it's proposed forebearer , and it does show Martha leading a softer side Vocally than Normal , but it's still an Irrisitable H-D-H Creation , "Where Did Our Love Go" wasn't all that Lyrically stimulating) It's somewhat odd that they didn't go with it as Motown normally gave the next single to the writers with the last big hit on the artist (Mickey Stevenson Ivy Joe Hunter and Clarence Paul came up with "You've Been In Love too Long"). "Dance Party is probably Motown's best Dance Album of the 60's (even if There He is (at My Door) is really out of step with the rest of the album) "Watchout!" is a real gem and it's mainly the Album Tracks that stand out. "Keep It Up" is delivered with such eerie sophistication...it's almost a Hitchocokian Thriller set to a James Jamerson bassline. Martha proves she was at ease with any rapidly changing arrangement as Dionne Warwick on "Happiness is Guaranteed" It's a wonder than "No More Tearstained Makeup" hasn't been snapped up and covered by someone within the last 35 years, it's the perfect pick yourself up tommorrows a better day song...I listen to it when I need that little lift of confidence . " Go Ahead and Laugh" is nearly identical to Kim Weston's 1964 b-side version execpt with strings added and Martha's fiery (verses Kim's Brooding) performance. Then comes " What am I gonna Do Without your Love" a mysterious exotic single that somehow stalled at #71 pop during the summer of 1966. and My favorite "He Doesn't Love Her anymore" possibly the best (and most overlooked) Triangle song , and it's presented here with a slighty folky guitar line...something of a suprise from the Motown act know for it's fire breating Soul Anthems. I recoomend both of these LP's on CD....Both more for "Watchout!" it's possibly the most Underrated Soul album of the 60's

"There'll be laughter, singin' and music swingin'...".......2003-10-04

These were the two best studio albums Martha & the Vandellas ever released. It's as simple as that.

`Dance Party' came first, as Gordy LP 915 on April 12, 1965 and fueled by the hits `Dancing In The Street,' `Wild One,' & `Nowhere To Run.' Their respective B-sides were no slouches, either: (respectively) `There He Is At My Door,' `Dancing Slow' & `Motoring.' The `cover' cuts here are fine, but the true fascination was the then-unknown material, `Dance Party,'`Nobody'll Care,' and particularly, `Mobile Lil The Dancing Witch' (some kind of `line' dance, I think, had to be suited to this one). With the exception of `Nowhere To Run' which is a Holland-Dozier-Holland production, the album was primarily produced by the boss Martha was originally a secretary to, William `Mickey' Stevenson. He knew his protégée well, and guided her through a project here each can take lasting pride in.

A `Greatest Hits' (a near-perfect one, at that) was next in May of 1966, and on November 16 came Gordy LP 920, `Watch Out.' Its only hit at that moment was `I'm Ready For Love.' Hard as it is to believe now, `Jimmy Mack' quietly waited its turn for over 10 weeks(!) to be unleashed as a 45 until February '67. Both songs are immortal now for the group and the other two H-D-H cuts included are winners too. `One Way Out' echoes back in its way to `Nowhere To Run,' but the fourth number was really different. `He Doesn't Love Her Anymore' rode the B-side of `I'm Ready For Love,' and has blues & jazz elements that are much more like `My Baby Loves Me' and `You've Been In Love Too Long' than the typical dance numbers H-D-H did on Martha. Her delivery on this heartbreak number is so sincere I'd bet she hasn't forgotten a single one of its lyrics today.

It's quite possible, what with producing the Temptations, the Marvelettes and his own group, the Miracles, Smokey Robinson was stretched very thin and busy in these mid-60s years. But two tracks on `Watch Out' certainly suggest there were great professional possibilities for he and Martha. `Keep It Up' is just what you'd might guess - Martha warning an abusive lover that her patience is running out, and she ain't playin'. But, `No More Tear-Stained Makeup' is truly the single that should have been. One of those pick-myself-up, start-over-again determination songs imbued with some of Smokey's cleverest rhymes, and Martha giving it the excellent reading it deserved. You GOTTA hear this one if you don't know it.

`Can't forget the Motor City,' Martha once sang. Don't worry, my dear Miss Reeves, with performances like these, you've seen to it that we never possibly could. Thank you.

Great sixties R+B dance music.......2002-10-28

Both of these albums were originally released in 1965, although two singles had been released in America in 1964. Dancing in the street was the first and it will forever be the song that Martha and the Vandellas are remembered for. It was a number two hit in America but missed the charts in Britain. Ayear later, it was re-released and reached number four.
The first album (Dance party) also includes the minor American hit Wild one (not released as a British single), and the mich bigger hit Nowhere to run (a minor British hit, but well known because it often appears on Motown compilations).

The second album (Watchout!) contains the hits Jimmy Mack and I'm ready for love. Both went top ten in America and top thirty in Britain. What am I gonna do without your love was a minor American hit.

The other songs are all interesting, entertaining and mostly upbeat. The three bonus tracks include Third finger left hand which was the B-side of Jimmy Mack but wasn't included on the original album.

If Martha can't make you get up and dance, who can?

Christian Music: