Artist	Song
James Taylor	How Sweet It Is - To Be Loved By You
from Rhino Hi-Five: James Taylor - EP (2005)
Michael McDonald	Ain't No Mountain High Enough
from Motown 1's (2004)
Red Hot Chili Peppers	Higher Ground
from Mother's Milk (2005)
Soft Cell	Where Did Our Love Go?
from The Very Best of Soft Cell (2002)
Linda Ronstadt	Heat Wave (Remastered)
from Rhino Hi-Five: Linda Ronstadt - EP (2005)
The Rolling Stones	Ain't Too Proud to Beg
from It's Only Rock 'n' Roll (Remastered) (2009)
Phil Collins	You Can't Hurry Love
from ...Hits (2004)
The Doobie Brothers	Take Me In Your Arms (Rock Me a Little While)
from The Very Best of The Doobie Brothers (2007)
Van Halen	Dancing In the Street
from The Best of Both Worlds (2004)
Gloria Gaynor	Never Can Say Goodbye
from 20th Century Masters - The Millennium Collection: The Best of Gloria Gaynor (2000)
Aretha Franklin	You're All I Need to Get By
from The Very Best of Aretha Franklin - The 70's (2008)
Mariah Carey	I'll Be There
from Mariah Carey: Greatest Hits (2001)
Al Green	I Can't Get Next to You
from Al Green: Greatest Hits (1975)
Luther Vandross	Since I Lost My Baby
from Always & Forever - The Classics (1998)
The English Beat	Tears of a Clown
from Beat This! The Best of The English Beat (2004)
Johnny Rivers	Baby, I Need Your Lovin'
from Johnny Rivers: Greatest Hits (1990)
Huey Lewis & The News & Gwyneth Paltrow	Cruisin'
from Huey Lewis & The News: Greatest Hits (2006)
Rod Stewart	(I Know) I'm Losing You
from Every Picture Tells a Story (1998)
Barry White	Standing In the Shadows of Love
from I've Got So Much to Give (2010)
Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band	War (Live)
from Live/1975-85 (2002)
The Dave Clark Five	Do You Love Me
from The Dave Clark Five: The Hits (Bonus Track Version) (2008)
Captain & Tennille	Shop Around
from Ultimate Collection: Captain & Tennille (2001)
Mitch Ryder & The Detroit Wheels	Devil With the Blue Dress On/Good Golly Miss Molly
from The Best of Mitch Ryder & the Detroit Wheels (2005)
Carpenters	Please Mr. Postman
from Carpenters Gold (35th Anniversary Edition) (2004)
David Bowie	Dancing In the Street (with Mick Jagger)
from Best of Bowie (2002)
Alicia Keys	If I Was Your Woman
from Unplugged (2005)
The Band	Don't Do It
from Best of the Band (2006)
The Clash	Every Little Bit Hurts
from Clash On Broadway (2000)
D'Angelo	Cruisin'
from Brown Sugar (2000)
Donny Hathaway	What's Going On (Live @ The Troubadour, Hollywood CA)
from A Donny Hathaway Collection (2007)
The Doobie Brothers	Little Darling (I Need You)
from The Very Best of The Doobie Brothers (2007)
Johnny Rivers	The Tracks of My Tears
from Johnny Rivers: Greatest Hits (1990)
Linda Ronstadt	Ooh Baby Baby
from Greatest Hits, Vol. 2 (2006)
Love and Rockets	Ball of Confusion (U.S. Mix)
from Express (2001)
Mariah Carey & Luther Vandross	Endless Love (Duet With Luther Vandross)
from Mariah Carey: Greatest Hits (2001)
Michael Bublé	How Sweet It Is
from It's Time (2005)
Otis Redding	My Girl
from Otis Blue: Otis Redding Sings Soul [Collector's Edition] (2008)
Paul Carrack	What Does It Take
from Groovin' (2002)
Paul Young	What Becomes of the Brokenhearted
from Fried Green Tomatoes (1991)
Pearl Jam	Leavin Here
from Lost Dogs (2003)
Peter Frampton	Signed, Sealed, Delivered I'm Yours
from Peter Frampton: Greatest Hits (1996)
Rod Stewart	This Old Heart of Mine (1989 Version) [With Ronald Isley]
from The Definitive Rod Stewart (2008)
The Rolling Stones	Just My Imagination (Running Away With Me)
from Some Girls (Remastered) (2011)
Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble	Superstition
from The Real Deal - Greatest Hits, Vol. 2 (1999)
The Strokes	Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology)
from You Only Live Once / Mercy Mercy Me - Single (2006)
Tony Bennett	For Once In My Life
from Tony Bennett's All-Time Greatest Hits (1997)
UB40	The Way You Do the Things You Do
from UB40: Greatest Hits (2008)
Wham!	Love Machine
from Fantastic (1985)
The Who	Baby Don't You Do It
from Who's Next (1995)
The Zombies	You've Really Got a Hold On Me
from The Zombies - The Original Studio Recordings, Vol. 2 (2007)
The Afghan Whigs	Come See About Me
from Uptown Avondale - EP (1999)
Alton Ellis	It's a Shame
from Darker Than Blue: Soul from Jamdown 1973-1980 (2001)
Cyndi Lauper	What's Going On
from Twelve Deadly Cyns...And Then Some (1994)
Detroit Cobras, The	Bye Bye Baby
from Love, Life, and Leaving (2001)
Bananarama & Fun Boy Three	Really Saying Something
from The Very Best of Bananarama (2005)
Grateful Dead	Second That Emotion
from Ladies and Gentlemen... The Grateful Dead - Fillmore East, New York City, April 1971 (2009)
The High Numbers	Leaving Here
from Thirty Years of Maximum R&B (1994)
The J. Geils Band	First I Look At the Purse
from The J. Geils Band (2008)
Joan Osborne	Smiling Faces Sometimes
from How Sweet It Is (2002)
John Lee Hooker	Money (That's What I Want)
from It Serves You Right to Suffer (1999)
KC & The Sunshine Band	It's the Same Old Song (LP Version)
from KC & the Sunshine Band: 25th Anniversary Collection (2004)
Kiki Ebsen	Tears of a Clown
from Kiki. (2005)
Laura Nyro	The Bells
from Stoned Soul Picnic: The Best of Laura Nyro (1997)
Linda Ronstadt	Tracks of My Tears
from Prisoner In Disguise (2009)
Lulu	Stubborn Kind of Fellow
from The Best Of (2007)
Luther Vandross & Cheryl Lynn	If This World Were Mine
from The Essential Luther Vandross (2003)
The Rance Allen Group	Just My Imagination (Just My Salvation)
from The Best of the Rance Allen Group (2006)
The Rascals	Too Many Fish In the Sea
from The Rascals: Collections (2005)
Nancy Wilson	Uptight (Everything's Alright)
from Anthology (2000)
The Slits	I Heard It Through the Grapevine
from Cut (2009)
The Staple Singers	You've Got to Earn It
from The Very Best of the Staple Singers (2007)
Taj Mahal	I Can't Help Myself (Sugarpie Honeybunch) [Bonus Track]
from Dancing the Blues (1993)
Thao	You've Really Got a Hold On Me
from We Brave Bee Stings and All (2008)
Iggy & The Stooges	Money (That's What I Want)
from Anthology Box - The Stooges & Beyond (2010)
Vanilla Fudge	Shotgun
from Rhino Hi-Five: Vanilla Fudge (2005)

Comment:

Hitsville, U.S.A. didn’t just mass produce hit singles; it manufactured hit [i]songs[/i]. Besides having a lock on the creative output from writers you know — think: Smokey Robinson, Stevie Wonder, Lionel Richie, and others — it also had a pen-toting bullpen of writers you probably don’t, like Holland/Dozier/Holland, Henry Cosby, Norman Whitfield, and many more. No matter where you look in the pop world — from classic rockers like Bruce Springsteen and the Rolling Stones to R&B superstars, like Aretha Franklin and Al Green; punk bands like the Clash and the Slits to pop legends like Tony Bennett and Sammy Davis, Jr. — your favorite artists didn’t just play Motown’s greatest hits and hidden gems on the [i]stereo[/i]; they also played them in the [i]studio[/i]. We couldn’t possibly fit all of the classic covers in a single playlist, but we’ve cherry-picked the best of the best, and put them right at your fingertips.

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