Jackson 5 - I Want You Back question

Well, anyone can make their job a lot easier with the Motown stuff by purchasing the Hitsville Vol. 1 boxed set.

Also, every Motown single is being reissued in its mono version, both A and B side, on Hip-O Select's complete Motown series. They're expensive -- about $150 per set, each one covering one year. Four volumes have been issued so far. But they only issue two or three sets a year, and you will have a very collectable, limited edition which is likely to go up in value.

Alternatively, I believe at least the first two volumes of that series are available for download -- by track -- on iTunes.

But Grant is right that almost every pre-1969 single was released in mono only, and most of them were not fold-downs. That's been my maddening goal -- to collect the single MIXES. Fortunately I don't collect the entire top 40, just the top 10, so my chore is a little bit easier.

Course, we won't talk about how much money I've blown on imports and promo samplers just on the chance that they MIGHT have some rare mono. But then you'll discover that gem that makes it all worth it.

My commercial 45, which is mono, has a listed time of (2:44), but an actual time of (2:58).