Motown Revue
"Dancin' In The Streets"
July 7, 1987
The Catalyst
Santa Cruz, California, USA
with David Ruffin, Eddie Kendricks, Martha Reeves, Mary Wells and Curtis Womack

Soundboard monitor feed and microphones - live matrix mix. Very decent sound quality - check the samples to get an idea of the sound for yourself.

disc 1 - 68:53
01 [4:18] Hold On I'm Comin' [vocal by Ron Hoven] [cuts in near beginning]
02 [5:01] Mary Wells intro > You Beat Me To The Punch
03 [3:35] Two Lovers
04 [5:06] The One Who Really Loves You > Curtis Womack intro >
05 [1:41] Wonderful World >
06 [4:07] She Don't Love You >
07 [3:59] Chain Gang >
08 [1:16] You Beat Me To The Punch
09 [4:06] My Guy
10 [3:37] Bye Bye Baby >
11 [2:04] Shout > Mary Wells, Curtis Womack outro
12 [1:13] announcer talk
13 [3:58] Martha Reeves intro > Ready For Love
14 [4:34] Come and Get These Memories
15 [0:32] childhood song bit and talk
16 [4:22] Nowhere To Run
17 [1:08] talk
18 [5:29] I'll Have To Let Him Go
19 [3:30] Jimmy Mack
20 [5:17] Heat Wave

disc 2 - 52:30
01 [2:18] Get Ready [cuts in near beginning]
02 [1:43] Boogie Down >
03 [5:32] Keep On Truckin'
04 [0:22] David Ruffin intro
05 [6:30] My Whole World Ended (The Moment You Left Me)
06 [4:17] Statue Of A Fool
07 [3:51] Just My Imagination >
08 [2:19] Ain't Too Proud To Beg >
09 [3:01] Girl (Why You Wanna Make Me Blue?) >
10 [7:51] My Girl [including parts of It's Growing and Since I Lost My Baby] >
11 [2:13] The Way You Do The Things You Do >
12 [3:22] (I Know) I'm Losing You
13 [1:46] announcer, outro and crowd before show finale
14 [5:09] Dancin' In The Streets
15 [2:16] announcer outro and crowd

Mary Wells: disc 1 - tracks 2-4
Mary Wells and Curtis Womack: disc 1 - tracks 5-11
Martha Reeves: disc 1 tracks 12-20
Eddie Kendricks: disc 2 tracks 1-3
David Ruffin: disc 2 tracks 4-6
Eddie Kendricks and David Ruffin: disc 2 tracks 7-12
Martha Reeves with Eddie Kendricks, David Ruffin and Mary Wells show finale: disc 2 track 14

other info: Master of ceremonies/announcer: Ron Hoven
backing band: Splendor

Monitor soundboard feed with 2 Crown PZM microphones, 2 Nakamichi cm300 microphones and one other ambient mic. mounted on balcony railing - Live matrix mix.

Dolby C Maxell MX90 (metal tape) > Sony ES series auto-reverse cassette deck. Transferred with Nakamichi Dragon > Macintosh with DigiDesign AudioMedia III card > Pro Tools (minor "nip and tuck" edits, normalization and tracking) > AIFF > xACT (Flac level 8 files with sector boundaries verified. md5 file created with checkSUM+.

These matrix mixes tend to be ambient sounding to add presence to the dry board signal so please don't complain that this doesn't sound enough like a soundboard - it did end up a lot better as a matrix mix than it would have sounded as board or audience alone. Since the mix was done live, this is all that there is...

Other notes: It's funny that Martha Reeves keeps referring to Santa Cruz as San Carlos ("it's great to be here in San Carlos tonight"). Also it should be noted that this show was previously seeded from a different source audience master about 2 years ago (thanks Mark!).

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