![]() “Motown is clearly evolving at this time,” says Harry Weinger, VP of A&R at Universal Music Enterprises, who oversaw the album. There’s also a taste of Stevie Wonder’s broadening musical ambition in one of his first self-produced tracks, the uplifting ‘Mister Moon.’ The Temptations offer an ode to African-American beauty in ‘Pretty Little Brown Skin Girl’ while Bobby Taylor takes time out from developing the Jackson 5’s talent ahead of their first album with his own ‘Touched by Love,’ produced by Johnny Bristol. Among the mouthwatering selection is the stirring ‘I Had a Dream (Opus I),’ written and produced by Ashford & Simpson for Gladys Knight & the Pips in the year after Martin Luther King’s assassination. It’s testament to the bottomless creativity at work at Hitsville at the time that more than half of the tracks on Motown Unreleased: 1969 are compositions that have never been heard outside of that studio.
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