Posted April 30, 200916 yr just got this email https://zaphod.uk.vvhp.net/consumer/viewema...ec=cbed2f42ab67 hope it works kev why buy boots when you can get genuine reissues at this price Edited April 30, 200916 yr by kevinsoulman
April 30, 200916 yr just got this email https://zaphod.uk.vvhp.net/consumer/viewema...ec=cbed2f42ab67 hope it works kev why buy boots when you can get genuine reissues at this price IMO a completely wasted opportunity. I guess they may sell to casual Motown buyer but I really doubt such buyers exist anymore. Certainly missed collector's market by a mile. ROD
May 1, 200916 yr IMO a completely wasted opportunity. I guess they may sell to casual Motown buyer but I really doubt such buyers exist anymore. Certainly missed collector's market by a mile. ROD Four Tops were never "The Four Tops" and "Something About You" has never been called "Something About You Baby". Such care and attention. eh?
May 1, 200916 yr Four Tops were never "The Four Tops" and "Something About You" has never been called "Something About You Baby". Such care and attention. eh? Wow, a bigger curmudgeon than myself!! I never noticed that Tony but you're right. I think some kinda thought has gone into it, in that they've used the old Tamla design as some kinda tie-in with origins of the label but obviously nothing we'd recognise as rational,marketable or desirable. I did notice that although "Four Tops" on US copies it is "The Four Tops" on a Dutch "Baby I need your loving" copy I have. As I only collect US Motown I checked Ebay for UK issues and no "The" there either. ROD
May 1, 200916 yr Wow, a bigger curmudgeon than myself!! I never noticed that Tony but you're right. I think some kinda thought has gone into it, in that they've used the old Tamla design as some kinda tie-in with origins of the label but obviously nothing we'd recognise as rational,marketable or desirable. I did notice that although "Four Tops" on US copies it is "The Four Tops" on a Dutch "Baby I need your loving" copy I have. As I only collect US Motown I checked Ebay for UK issues and no "The" there either. ROD Pretty sure that the only two UK "The Four Tops" singles are "Shake Me, Wake Me" and "Walk Away Renee" - both times in error. It was always Berry Gordy's intention that they would be "Four Tops" and it was only after they left to go to Dunhill that the "The" started to regularly appear on record labels. To put it in perspective, it would be a bit like putting out records by "The Led Zeppelins", "The Queens" or "The Deep Purples" in the rock field... I really feel that the repertoire for these singles could have been more aimed at "us" rather than the casual punter. This would have been a great opportunity to put out legal versions of those bootleg Motown 45s like Jimmy Ruffin's "He Who Picks A Rose" and Chris Clark's "Something's Wrong" rather than just rehashing stuff that's mostly too obscure for your Adsa Motown shopper, but that is already in the collections of anyone who really wants the tracks on 45. But I do like the way they look!
just got this email
https://zaphod.uk.vvhp.net/consumer/viewema...ec=cbed2f42ab67
hope it works
kev
why buy boots when you can get genuine reissues at this price
Edited by kevinsoulman