Smokey/Miracles-"Tears Of A Clown"

I concur the Rhino discs are hard to beat for stereo
Motown in that they typically got the lowest generation
tapes and their mastering was very tasteful.
However, as I previously stated, the barrage of tape
dropouts and tape damage that is present in a lot of
the older Motown hits (particularly on the intros) is
still present on many of the Rhino comps. Granted, if
this doesn't bother you, then go for it. However,
Motown/Universal did do a very nice job of cleaning a
lot of these up and if you want to hear a handful of
tracks without these tape anomalies, they exist. I
don't recommend getting ONLY the newer Motown discs for
the stereo tracks as they are a mixed bag, as far as
mastering goes.

Someday I'll have to dig out all my handwritten notes
and post my findings here a'la Ron.