Roburt

I knew you'd have the full story Robb. MANY THANX. Only one version of "This Heart Of Mine"seems to be up on Youtube (the later Chess version) . . . . . . . does that sound much more up-to-date than the Kudo version ?? Yank, as your post confirms, the Chess deal for the Falcon's Kudo tracks was done in May 58 (see May 58 dated item in my 1st post -- stating Chess paid $9000 for those cuts).

Anyone here know the story behind the 45's featuring tracks from the Falcons on Kudo, Chess & Anna (RobbK perhaps)?? I know the story began in spring 1958 when the Falcons (Joe Stubbs, Eddie Floyd, Mack Rice, Willie Schofield and Lance Finnie) cut tracks for Detroit label Kudo Records (owned by Robert West ?). A 45 escaped, the 1st on the label with "This Heart Of Mine" being the top side. Almost immediately, Chess picked up the group's cuts and paid Kudo a decent sum. The group (who'd originally come together in 55 and had cut for Mercury & Silhouette ahead of Kudo) moved on and no actual 45 by them escaped on Chess. The group's next outing emerged on Flick ("You're So Fine") and was soon enjoying lots of action. UnArt picked it up for national distribution and it went Top 10 R&B / Top 20 pop on the US charts in summer 59. A follow up was put out by Unart but a 45 on Chess also emerged in November 59. This featured their song that had come out on Kudu coupled with a Berry Gordy penned item ("Just For Your Love"). The old Kudo number though was assigned a different length (time-wise) this time around and had an extra writer credited. Then in February 1960, the same two tracks came out on an Anna 45. I know that the Chess deal would have come about via Berry Gordy as Miracles tracks also appeared shortly afterwards on Chess. MY QUESTION ... did Chess use the Kudo tracks they'd bought for $9000 or were both sides of the Falcons Chess 45 sourced from BG ... . . . . Kudo Records was for a while based out of United Artists building in Detroit so why didn't Unart pick up the Falcons disc for natonal distribution (as they did stuff made by Marv Johnson who had a Kudo 45 released at the same time as the Falcons Kudo 45 -- this & later Marv J outings having BG connections) ..... If Chess did utilise the Kudo cut track on Chess #1743, how did they land the BG track they coupled it with ? ... AND ... why after this pairing had come out on Chess, did it reappear on Anna just a few months later ??

A few interesting LP covers (+ a 12") ...

Lots of jazzy stuff cut there, including this ...

Another project laid down there ... the 3 Pieces album in 75 ...

The famous Fantasy Studios in Berkeley up near San Fran is to close .... . . . much great music has been made / mastered 'mixed there down the years ... a sad occurance ... https://www.berkeleyside.com/2018/07/29/berkeleys-fantasy-studios-an-internationally-renowned-film-and-music-studio-to-close-its-doors https://fantasystudios.com/about/ An example of a track cut there ...

Other oddities of sorts I missed off my list above ... US / UK acetates & test pressings, 7" Mini LP's / Little LP's (for juke box use in the US). No need to post any 'funny country' vinyl as there's already a long running thread for such items.

Picture discs were very much in vogue in the 70's (& later), so there's all sorts of strange looking soul 45's & Lp's out there (both US, UK & Euro issues). There's also limited edition coloured vinyl 45, Italian Jukebox 7" releases, 7" releases that tied in with soul acts appearing at Euro Music Festivals (such as Midem), different promo copies of singles (some on different national labels to the original local label issue) and other similar oddities ... Then there are all the records pressed up in strange countries or on 78 in the Philippines / India, etc. when everywhere else they were on 45. A few examples ... some of those below are original / old releases, others more modern reissues ...

A few that WSOK featured back in the day ...

This station (WSOK Savannah) only played black music (soul, R&B, blues, gospel) but they did managr to playlist the only US 45 by lilly-white UK outfit Felders Orioles ...

Bettye keeps on getting media attention ... well I suppose after being the the music biz for well over 55 years, she deserves it ... https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/bettye-lavette-things-have-changed-tour-soul-survivor-703016/

A few cuts that WAWA were playing ...

Over to Milwaukee ... WAWA was the city's only R&B stn ...

Back in the UK this time ... back in 1962 and EMI was already mining the black music vein ...

Yep, the first NS boots to be pressed up. The labels releases chronicle what were the top niter sounds in the 1967 -70 period.

Love just about all the Soul Children cuts ... but that track (& the LP as a whole) is very fine indeed ..

If we're splitting hairs ... then ... Jimmy Holidays 45 escaped ahead of Ike Turner's (& his record got some chart action too) ...

Another from me ...

In addition to the versions on other labels listed above, there was also the Minit 45. As well as there being lots of different versions of their records, there were also many different versions of the group. Bobby Sanders kept ripping the guys off & so they'd quit & he'd just set up a new replacement group (at one time, even the Imperial Wonders became the Younghearts).

Of course, some of this would be nice ...

On the jazzy side ...

Anuda ...

I could do with this ..........

Info on the Bagatelle ... https://www.punkblowfish.com/Bagatelle.html