The Complete Motown Singles Vol. 7 - 1967
1967 contained a bucketload of classic Motown material. Psychedelic and serious-themed soul had yet to take off, so it was pop all the way - and how. Compared to 1964-66, however, there was just a slight drop-off and vague hints of change in the air, just little ones. Songs such as Bernadette (The Four Tops), Love Is Here And Now You're Gone (The Supremes) and You're My everything (The Temptations) stood as examples of songwriters who were wiling to change style. Smokey Robinson's songwriting was also as clever as ever. Diana Ross & The Supremes' (note the leading lady now credited separately from the other two) Reflections was one of the first Motown records to dabble in Sgt. Pepper-style psychedelia with those strange, spacey sound effects, particularly in its intro. What Motown's 1967 output ignored, however, were the inner city riots, the Vietnam War and general levels of social unrest that the subsequent years' material began to address. The label sta