Do Elemental’s budget Motown reissues deliver? A clear-eyed review of Four Tops and Supremes albums from the late ’60s and early ’70s.

Barrett Strong, an artist and songwriter who was present for the birth of Motown and had a key role in classic hits for the Temptations, Marvin Gaye, Edwin Starr and others, has died. He was 81.

Exactly fifty-three summers ago, the Motown R&B hit machine out of Detroit, known as the Temptations, hit the top of the charts with one of the classic protest pop songs of the era, "Ball of Confusion ...