I wonder, Monique - if you Love me, when I first personally discovered this 45 it was always on Gold copies, then in the mid nineties Orange / white ones started to appear, was that always the case?

 

mal

Edited July 25, 20159 yr by Mal C

Hi Mal,

Hope you're good pal. Mine's orange/white and I got it from Mick Smith early 90s. I've just had a look on popsike and there are more of the orange/white variety. Cracking record though! I first heard this at one of the Cleethorpes weekenders and then badgered Mick until he let me buy his.

Rich

Both label styles are legitimate originals, from the mid sixties.

thats good to know, I have her other releases but never got this one, obviously this is from a certain auction going on on-line at the moment, which i was sure was the real deal, but as I've said, id always seen the gold one for years,then a orange/white in the mid 9ts...

just out of interest Robb, who do you think Monique really is?

Mal

I have no clue who Monique is.  But, I don't think she's from Detroit.  I think that tapes of Dave Hamilton's tracks happened to get into the hands of Maurice Jackson from a Detroit contact of his, and he took them to Gene Chandler, and they recorded a Chicago singer (Monique) over them.  I can't place her voice on another artist I know.

cheers Robb, I guess we may never know...I dint know however that Maurice Jackson took them to Gene Chandler...

M

Gene Chandler was co-owner and one of the 2 executive producers of Maurci Records.  So, I just assumed that he took them to him.  Simtec Simmons was the other.

Edited July 27, 20159 yr by RobbK

Was always lead to believe the gold was the rarest of the two,as the B side was pressed up as a A side "Orange & white " but not on gold, any info on this ?

I lived in Chicago at the time the record was out, and searched for 45s in USA up to mid 1972.  I have seen more copies of the orange & white than the gold.  I would say about 5 to 1.  But I wouldn't say the gold was "rare".  As to how many of each are now in the hands of NS collectors, I couldn't say.  Both Monique records are "uncommon", but I wouldn't define them as "rare".