Guest MBarrett Posted April 21, 2007 Share Posted April 21, 2007 Paul It's just a half-page ad from the New Musical Express. I have a few original copies of the NME from that sort of era. Therefore approx. 12 inches by 6 inches. (whoops! 30cm by 15cm - don't want to be arrested and thrown into a prison cell for failure to comply with EU directives!!) Only 19 E.P.'s issued I believe (plus a 20th much later which was a "bonus" with a Stevie Wonder L.P.) MB Link to comment Social source share More sharing options...
slimharpo Posted April 21, 2007 Share Posted April 21, 2007 Mine was Money - Barrett Strong on London honest, about '61. I was the only Soul (or whatever it was called then) Boy in the village (actually it was R&R & R&B stuff like the Drifters Phil Phillips etc)) and someone I got talking to in a record shop told me he knew of someone who had a few strange records he wanted to sell. I got in touch and bought about 10 things off him Money, Don Gardner & D D Ford - I Need Your Love, The Falcons - I Found A Love, James Brown on Parlophone and a few others. God knows where he heard them. I'd never heard of any of these myself until then and it confirmed for me what I wanted to seek out in future. Re; Radio Luxemburg. They did occasionally play obscure stuff but I remember listening to the Oriole show for weeks to hear Motown stuff with no success and it was often true of other programmes. The best way then to home in on soul was to buy the Record Mirror and read the reviews. If there were strange names like Solomon Burke or Jnr Walker you knew they'd be good! And the Norman Joplin column in particular was a great guide. Link to comment Social source share More sharing options...
Guest Brian J Posted April 22, 2007 Share Posted April 22, 2007 Marv Johnson - I'll Pick A Rose (For My Rose) 1969 Link to comment Social source share More sharing options...
Guest marge Posted April 24, 2007 Share Posted April 24, 2007 i don't really own or have many Northern as my dad has most of the old stuff but i guess my first one was Boyz II Men - The End of the Road i loved it then and still do now. I used to think that was quite a nice track but I just watched in on youtube and feel a bit queasy. For all the wrong reasons... Link to comment Social source share More sharing options...
Guest Posted April 25, 2007 Share Posted April 25, 2007 (edited) STILL GOT MY COPY OF THE 1979 CLASSICS.........................I always wondered if Stevie Wonder was a MOD Edited April 25, 2007 by mossy Link to comment Social source share More sharing options...
Guest Posted April 25, 2007 Share Posted April 25, 2007 (edited) what was your first motown record? mine was reflections-the supremes come on its just a bit of fun alan Following hearing it played countless times at a party I was at , I went out and bought " Nowhere To Run " by Martha & The Vandellas , on Stateside , from the original release stock that they still had of it , at Kennedy's Record shop in Leeds in 1965...... Little did I know that 17 years later , Martha Reeves would come back to haunt me ...... Malc Burton Edited April 25, 2007 by Malc Burton Link to comment Social source share More sharing options...
Guest mel brat Posted April 30, 2007 Share Posted April 30, 2007 Following hearing it played countless times at a party I was at , I went out and bought " Nowhere To Run " by Martha & The Vandellas , on Stateside , from the original release stock that they still had of it , at Kennedy's Record shop in Leeds in 1965...... Little did I know that 17 years later , Martha Reeves would come back to haunt me ...... Malc Burton Ooops! - I think you mean Tamla Motown. "Nowhere To Run" never came out on Stateside! Link to comment Social source share More sharing options...
Guest donny sime fox Posted January 30, 2011 Share Posted January 30, 2011 I was a late covert after hearing 'The Big Wheels of Motown' and my mums Supremes tapes. The 1st 7" I can remember buying was David Ruffin 'I've Passed This Way Before' (Heavy Lovewas the 'B' side) After about 500 plays I was full of wisdom and heartache before I'd had a girlfriend. 'Another Heartache' by the 3 Degrees didn't do me any favours either. Link to comment Social source share More sharing options...
Ian Parker Posted January 30, 2011 Share Posted January 30, 2011 Heaven must have sent you _ The Elgins. got it from my sisters' ex boyfriend when i was about 14 Link to comment Social source share More sharing options...
kevinsoulman Posted January 30, 2011 Share Posted January 30, 2011 TEMPTATIONS TAKE A LOOK AROUND IN THE EARLY 70'S, FROM WOOLIES IN LINCOLN, FLIPPED IT OVER AND I WAS HOOKED. KEV Link to comment Social source share More sharing options...
AlanB Posted January 30, 2011 Share Posted January 30, 2011 Ha, great how a thread can lie dormant for over 3 years then suddenly spring into life! Anyway, my first Motown record (and first soul record) was the Isley Brothers - This Old Heart Of Mine TMG 555. Alan Link to comment Social source share More sharing options...
John Parker Posted January 30, 2011 Share Posted January 30, 2011 I remember well my first Motown Record Had been on a school trip to London and called in at a record shop Must have been 12 or 13 so 1967 or so Bought The Supremes Greatest Hits....new absolutely nothing about them...liked the look of the cover Loved every track at the time...there it all started.............. Link to comment Social source share More sharing options...
Guest proudlove Posted January 30, 2011 Share Posted January 30, 2011 OOH HOO ----------I bet your wondrin' how I knew, 'bout your plans to make me blue, with some other guy you met before,................................................Etc Still makes the hairs on my neck stand on end. Steve. Link to comment Social source share More sharing options...
Guest jerrio Posted January 30, 2011 Share Posted January 30, 2011 what was your first motown record? mine was reflections-the supremes come on its just a bit of fun alan Way Over There -Edwin Star ........... Given to me by my teacher, he was clearing out his cupbourd. Link to comment Social source share More sharing options...
Guest theoriginator56 Posted January 30, 2011 Share Posted January 30, 2011 AGED 14 ,WIGAN JUNIOR WALKER [GOT TO HOLD ON TO THIS FEELING]STILL GOOSEBUMBS TO THIS DAY WHEN I HEAR THIS BRILL TUNE. BAZ A. wigan casino 77 me thinks ive got this on tape some where ? these eyes live wow. Link to comment Social source share More sharing options...
Guest oldsoulgit Posted February 1, 2011 Share Posted February 1, 2011 Four Tops- Reach Out - 1966 Link to comment Social source share More sharing options...
Guest Polyvelts Posted February 2, 2011 Share Posted February 2, 2011 Barbara Randolph - I got a feeling, must have been 1978 reissue ? went to a party in Welwyn Garden City when I was 15, very punky and new wave, adrian thrills was playing records and it was the greatest thing i'd heard - bought a copy the following monday in the record shop in the basement of oasis in Brum, got some weird looks from the soul divs in my punk garb - they couldnt work me out !!! Link to comment Social source share More sharing options...
Geoff Posted February 2, 2011 Share Posted February 2, 2011 My first Motown record was Please Mr Postman by the Marvelettes on Fontana, I bought it off a stall in Edmonton Green market. The second one was the Contours' Do You Love Me on Oriole in 1963. First LP was the Miracles' I Like It Like That, they used to play the entire first side at allnighters I attended. One of my friends bought Shop Around by the Miracles on London when it was first issued on London over here. Link to comment Social source share More sharing options...
Citizen P Posted February 2, 2011 Share Posted February 2, 2011 Mine would be the first record I ever bought Ball of Confusion-Temptations. Actually a bit pointless, cos I didn't have a record player at the time Tony Link to comment Social source share More sharing options...
Dave Harrison Posted February 2, 2011 Share Posted February 2, 2011 I loved Freda Paynes "Band of Gold" when I first heard it on Radio One, and when I first saw the Invictus single in Radio Rentals window I went in and bought it. Only we didn't have a record player! Having talked my dad into buying one, other records soon followed, including Elgins - Heaven must've sent you & Smokey's - Tears of a clown on Tamla Motown. It wasn't until I had about 6 records that I found out that they were all by black artists, and what I liked was called Soul Music! A life changing moment! Dave Link to comment Social source share More sharing options...
grant Posted February 2, 2011 Share Posted February 2, 2011 think the first one i bought was edwin starr - time around 1976 Link to comment Social source share More sharing options...
Spacehopper Posted February 2, 2011 Share Posted February 2, 2011 mine would be jr walker-roadrunner uk lp which was given to me by my mates dad in about 79 when i was 12....still got it and worth a few quid now aswell as being a great album can remember before that though playing my dads uk 45 copy of it and the temps 'youre not an ordinary girl' and 'back street' by r dean taylor on rare earth when i would have been about 6...can remember cos at the same time had crazy horses by the osmonds which came out in 72 when i was 5 dean Link to comment Social source share More sharing options...
Mickjay33 Posted February 2, 2011 Share Posted February 2, 2011 first motown track the supremes baby love also the first record i ever played as a dj back in 1969 what great times Link to comment Social source share More sharing options...
tosspot Posted February 2, 2011 Share Posted February 2, 2011 as an 11 year old lad my ears went PING when i heard the four tops - reach out, it was 1966, i got my hard earned pocket money, jumped on a bus up to a record shop in Coalville, i sang it to the girl in the shop (i didn't know the title)...then BINGO it was in my hands (oh my, it's cost me £thousands cos from then till now i've never stopped buying vinyl) Rob Link to comment Social source share More sharing options...
Guest JIM BARRY Posted February 2, 2011 Share Posted February 2, 2011 temptations....cloud nine...1970 Link to comment Social source share More sharing options...
Steve Myers Posted February 2, 2011 Share Posted February 2, 2011 (edited) 14th Birthday in 1969. Marvin Gaye - Too Busy Thinking About My Baby - b/w - Wherever I Lay My Hat, which I loved just as much as the A side untill that upstart from Luton spoiled it for me............. Little did i know, Vinyl, Motown, Soul.........start of a lifetime addiction............ Edited February 2, 2011 by soulsteve Link to comment Social source share More sharing options...
Guest Posted February 3, 2011 Share Posted February 3, 2011 (edited) It was a Four Tops out of the 12p box of local Co- op (I was still at school, me and my sister had just got a record player for Christmas, it was probaly 2 years after the With the Beatles LP was released, (I still have it, it came with record player) and sleeve notes made/makes a lot of references to Motown) cannot rember what it was though (DUH), the next one I can remember buying was Can I get Witness - Marvin Gaye, a couple years later, possibly 1966.. Edited February 3, 2011 by DanDare Link to comment Social source share More sharing options...
Britishbarry Posted February 3, 2011 Share Posted February 3, 2011 It was either. Temptations - Ain't to proud to beg or Junior Walker - How sweet it is in 1966 Link to comment Social source share More sharing options...
steve Posted February 6, 2011 Share Posted February 6, 2011 (edited) Isley Brothers 'This old heart of mine' in about 74/75, Edited February 6, 2011 by steve Link to comment Social source share More sharing options...
Cunnie Posted February 6, 2011 Share Posted February 6, 2011 First Motown record I ever bought was also my very first record owned & it was I'm Still Waiting by Diana Ross. Started me on the right road I suppose but the funny thing is I don't really like Diana Ross's voice at all. Link to comment Social source share More sharing options...
Guest Brian J Posted February 6, 2011 Share Posted February 6, 2011 Marv Johnson - I'll Pick A Rose For My Rose. I was buying pop records prior to this when my elder brother said to me, 'what are you buying that shite for? You want to buy soul records, soul will never die!' How right he was! Link to comment Social source share More sharing options...
Guest Ian 1930 Posted February 6, 2011 Share Posted February 6, 2011 Jackson 5 - 'I Want You Back' and 'ABC' both bought at the same time in 1970 from Boots in Wakefield for 7/6 each! Link to comment Social source share More sharing options...
grantdyche Posted February 6, 2011 Share Posted February 6, 2011 Jackson 5 - 'I Want You Back' and 'ABC' both bought at the same time in 1970 from Boots in Wakefield for 7/6 each! Mine was Ben cost me about six and a tanner,Was bit upset when I did not get a free rat. Link to comment Social source share More sharing options...
Dr Good Soul Posted February 6, 2011 Share Posted February 6, 2011 There's No Stopping us Now-----Supremes Steve. Link to comment Social source share More sharing options...
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