An interesting motown feature based on the recollections of one of the group can be had via The Blade website (link below)
Motown moment: Toledo's Prentiss Anderson recalls local hit that came out of historic label
He was there in the label’s early days.
Anderson, 80, is today a reverend at New Bethel Church of God in Christ in Toledo, where he serves under Bishop Rance Allen. (Allen himself brings a noteworthy musical pedigree to the congregation: The gospel vocalist heads the Grammy Award-winning Rance Allen Group.) But in the early 1960s, Anderson was one-third of Lee and the Leopards, one of the early groups to sign with Berry Gordy at Motown Records....
Full article here
Both sides can be listened to below, here the 'Trying to make it' side has always been the preferred one....
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