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Epic Records 2003 ristampa.

Lightbox edition.
Illuminated album cover comes to life and plays 'Shot in The Dark' (~20 sec. intro only) through a built in speaker in this collectible box that includes the CD softpack, 20 page booklet, and USB charge cord.
The CD comes in a gatefold digisleeve cover with a 20 page booklet.

The album title Power Up is abbreviated and stylized as PWR?UP on the release.
The amount of copies of the limited edition lightbox is unknown.

This box was sold worldwide. There are minor deviations in the presentation with front stickers and barcode stickers.

Text on the removable transparent sticker with white letters on the front, for example on the US version:
PWR?UP
THE NEW ALBUM
FEATURING SHOT IN THE DARK
19439744632 S1

Text on the removable transparent sticker with white letters on the front, for example on the EU version:
PWR?UP
THE NEW ALBUM
FEATURING SHOT IN THE DARK
19439744632

Text on the barcode sticker on shrink wrap on the back, for example on the EU version:
? & © 2020 Leidseplein Presse B.V.
[...]
Package manufactured by MEDIAFAST in China. Final assembly and discs made in the EU.
[...]

Text on the removable transparent sticker with white letters on the front, for example on the CAN version:
LIMITED EDITION DELUXE LIGHTBOX
LIGHTS UP & PLAYS
THE OPENING BARS
OF "SHOT IN THE DARK"
THROUGH A BUILT-IN SPEAKER
INCLUDES CD WITH
20 PAGE BOOKLET
AND USB CHARGING CABLE

Text on the bottom of the box:
? & © 2020 Leidseplein Presse B.V.
[...]
Package manufactured by MEDIAFAST in China. Discs made in Germany. Assembled in the USA.
[...]

Box ordered online may be protected in a wrapped cardboard box with several stickers on front (see images section).

La colonna sonora del documentario dedicato al personaggio più pazzo e talentuoso del panorama funky soul degli anni settanta: 21 canzoni tra cui molti successi, versioni alternate e nuovi mixaggi.

#1-1 to 1-12 issued as the album Here I Am, Motown MS-644. released November 1966. Album produced by Frank Wilson. Recorded October-December 1965, and March-June 1966.

#1-13 to 1-24 issued as the album The Real Barbara McNair, Motown MS-680, April 1969. The Supremes are featured on background vocals on some tracks. Recorded December 1966 and January-February 1967; Smokey Robinson productions recorded July-August 1968.

#1-25, 1-26 released as US single Motown 1087, November 1965; also issued as UK single Tamla-Motown TMG 544, January, 1966.

#2-1 to 2-13. Each of these tracks, except #2-10, is from sessions in which only Smokey Robinson compositions were recorded. However, there is no record indicating there was an LP with the title, 'Barbara Sings Smokey'. It is used here for descriptive purposes only.

Mastered by Gary Moore at Universal Digital Mastering, London. Analog-to-Digital Transfers from original Motown master tapes by Jeff Willens at Universal Mastering Studios-East. #2-11, 2-12, 2-13 and 2-22 mixed from the original session masters by Kevin Reeves at UMS-E.

Special thanks to Andrew Skurow for track annotations and vault research.
Thanks to Adam Charles for the loan of the photographs and artefacts.

This compilation (P) & (C) 2003 Universal Music.

#1-2 writer listed as Hal Davis, not Hal David.
#1-17, 1-21, 2-21 producer unknown
#2-21 writer unknown