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R&B Indies also has this listed: 9 The Peppermints - "My First Love" / (unknown title) (They also list different numbers for two titles: 12 Barbara & The Cast
R&B Indies also has this listed: 9 The Peppermints - "My First Love" / (unknown title) (They also list different numbers for two titles: 12 Barbara & The Cast
I would like all of us Anoraks and major collectors on this forum to contribute record label information so that we'll be able to see who was producing sessions, singing the songs, writing the songs, arranging, publishing the music, and where that music was recorded, for that label, as it seems to have had some level of connection to L.A.'s Jobete Music (Motown) Office, in the mid '6os.
We know that Chester and Gary Pipkin produced Barbara and The Castles' "Stoney Face" for Ruby-Doo CJ-12 for that label, and it seems to have been issued in early 1966. It may or may not have been recorded earlier. It was published by Jobete Music in 1965. As "Hey, Stoney Face", that song was recorded in 1965 by Mary Love for Modern Records. I have seen no evidence of Motown recording any of their contract artists singing that song, during my time at Motown, nor from any other source.
Some posters hear stated that "Barbara" sounds like Brenda or Patrice Holloway. But I disagree with that. I think she sounds a lot more like Barbara Dedmon (nee Wilson), Frank Wilson's wife, who sang the demo for Brenda Holloway's "Every Little Bit Hurts". Both Barbara Wilson and Mary Love worked with Hal Davis and Marc Gordon's L.A. Jobete Music operation during that period.
It has been stated by a poster that John Marascalco (owner of Cee Jam Records) ran/owned Ruby-Doo Records. I haven't seen the source of that information. But, it is very plausible, (1) because the pressing code for "Stoney Face is CJ-12 (same as the CJ code # for Cee Jam Records), and (2), because Marascalco had a working relationship with Davis and Gordon and The Pipkins of Jobete L.A. at that time, producing records on L.A. Jobete back-up singers, on songs published by Hal Davis' Finesse Music (which was the publisher of all the songs written by The L.A. Jobete writing crew, that did not end up being purchased by Motown). Pat Hunt, who sang backup with The Holloways, Mary Love, Jean King and others on Jobete demo sessions, was among those produced by Marascalco (who also got writing credit on some Jobete published songs (released by Joker Records). He produce Hunt for modern's Kent Records. He was also a producer at Joker, and may have been the liason between the two companies (along with Vince Love-who also worked for both).
Please post here any information on other Ruby-Doo releases (and the flip of Barbara and The Castles), and anything on the ownership, producers, where they recorded, and other aspects of that label's operation. Thanks.
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