Hi all.

Can anyone help me with:

Marvin Gaye - Desperate Situation / Love starved Heart - TAMLA - 42286-0288-7

Cheers

C

Can anyone fill me with info (so to speak!) on this as well. I know its supposed to be unissued, but someone mentioned a picture sleeve of it existing that ISN'T a bootleg. Can anyone shed any light?

Can anyone fill me with info (so to speak!) on this as well. I know its supposed to be unissued, but someone mentioned a picture sleeve of it existing that ISN'T a bootleg. Can anyone shed any light?

Short version.

Motown made these for a business convention in limited numbers.

Delegates were given a copy each - loads were left behind and 'swept up' by Janitors as most record execs don't have the means to play them.

Comes in a authentic 60s style sleeve, but catalogue numbers are obviously modern.

Can anyone fill me with info (so to speak!) on this as well. I know its supposed to be unissued, but someone mentioned a picture sleeve of it existing that ISN'T a bootleg. Can anyone shed any light?

Short version.

Motown made these for a business convention in limited numbers.

Delegates were given a copy each - loads were left behind and 'swept up' by Janitors as most record execs don't have the means to play them.

Comes in a authentic 60s style sleeve, but catalogue numbers are obviously modern.

Cheers Joe, Simon. I see the last one on ebay went for £200, but I guess it is an 'official' release after all. Lucky janitors!

A record shop in Sheffield was offered a handfull (not five - literally a hand full) at £8 a pop but turned them down.

I missed the one copy that they had bought for £20.

Ended up paying about £60 for one a month later, this was around 1999?

i got mine @ a leeds alniter,when 1st came over.(late 90s)

guy had 5 copies for trades.

all had 99cents(or $1.99) stickers on them.(about 4 stickers on every copy).

think i traded nightwinds for it.

sold it for £100 a year later

I think you'll find the copies came via New York dealer/collector Greg Tormo, who got them off a person who was cleaning up after a Motown Convention. I got mine off Greg not long after he had copies.

I heard that Dave Withers was there helping the janitors hoover up and taking a few copys away with him.

I got mine a few years back off Henry Atkinson.

Ian.