Price And Label Please - Bonnyvetts "ordinary Girl"

[Ljblanken]

does anyone know this single? i may be spelling the name of the group wrong (Bonnyvettes?). a very girly tune.

thanks!

[boba]

I collect female soul groups and have *never* heard of this. So it's either very rare, or it's doowop, or it's white spectorish type music. Do you have a link to audio?

[Ljblanken]

I collect female soul groups and have *never* heard of this. So it's either very rare, or it's doowop, or it's white spectorish type music. Do you have a link to audio?

i don't have a link, but have an MP3 on my computer. i got it (i think) from a homemade cd from Dick Vivian at Rooky Ricardo's Records in SF. if you send me an email address, i can send you the mp3... (pm me)

[Ljblanken]

oh! i just found a youtube vidoe....

[Robbk]

It sounds nice and Soulful to me. I never heard it or heard of it back in the day. Bur, i have heard of it from the Northern Soul crowd over the past 10 years or so. What label was it on? Who produced it, wrote it, arranged it? Anyone know who the group members were? Where they were from? Can we have a label scan?

[boba]

It sounds nice and Soulful to me. I never heard it or heard of it back in the day. Bur, i have heard of it from the Northern Soul crowd over the past 10 years or so. What label was it on? Who produced it, wrote it, arranged it? Anyone know who the group members were? Where they were from? Can we have a label scan?

clearly nobody who has posted so far in the thread has a copy. it's not in the manship guide or the tim brown guide. googling makes it look like the sort of track that was unreleased and on a CD. However, it does show up on a french CD but that CD looks like bootlegs so unless it's bootlegged off of another CD it does exist in some form. It's not in popsike or collectors frenzy.

Can someone who is on spectropop ask there and repost here? That seems like the only hope unless someone here who hasn't posted yet knows.

[Ljblanken]

next time i am in SF i will ask Dick Vivian at Rooky's. he is a big girl group collector (and i MAY have gotten the mp3 i have from him)....

[boba]

I asked a big french girl group collector and he didn't know it.

[Robbk]

For all we know, it could have been an unknown group on a studio demo, and was just given a false name. That situation has occurred many times on the scene. Bonnyvetts is a very strange name for an American girls group.

[boba]

For all we know, it could have been an unknown group on a studio demo, and was just given a false name. That situation has occurred many times on the scene. Bonnyvetts is a very strange name for an American girls group.

sure. but ending up on a "northern soul" bootleg from france, it must have some physical history that someone knows, as they didn't get the track from a master tape probably.

[Robbk]

sure. but ending up on a "northern soul" bootleg from france, it must have some physical history that someone knows, as they didn't get the track from a master tape probably.

I agree. It may have been a studio demo or acetate. Many times, these have no artist name listed.

[Sebastian]

According to the liner notes in Goldmine's "Northern Soul Fever vol. 2" (GSCD 43, released in 1993) it is:

"A previously unreleased demo - Sirmatt - A Festival Recording"

The Flirtations / Jimmy Ricks / Tommy Tucker "Festival" label?

I guess "Sirmatt" is the publisher?

[boba]

Sebastian comes through with the knowledge. The french CD must have booted it off the goldmine CD.

[Robbk]

Wow! Pretty darned professional recording for a "festival recording".

[Ljblanken]

thanks for all the input! what a cool track.

[Mal C]

It's 2022 and Ive just come across this track again on my iTunes library, my question about what it is, is answered above, but Id like to know who owns a copy of the demo out there, is it a one off?

mal