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    Yes, very sad indeed.

    One could also say that, in purely artistic terms, her great vocal talent ultimately went to waste.

    Although Whiitney and her commercial masters would obviously disagree with that proposition in light of her massive commercial success.

    Instead of the calalogue of pop standards that she will be remembered for, imagine if she had attained all that commercial success tackling the song books of a Sam Dees or Philip Mitchell and with a producer like Rick Hall ?

    Surely the rarest form of this record is the 7" issue on New Zealand Tamla-Motown - the bright pink label series - from '71.

    Only had it twice in the last 25 years - kept one in my collection, sold the other 5 years ago for 250 quid.

    No Aussie issue of this either.

    Kris have you got one ?

    All about condition.

    Buy a minter & play it a few times & get yourself a good old cueburned copy that's worth peanuts.

    Best way by far to own it is the Coldcut - Harmless 12" press if you're lucky enough to find one.

    No cueburn problems & also louder & clearer than the Jap album cut & they're legit too.

    The Japanese and US LPs and the Harmless 12" take the track to another level of sound quality - so clear and clean. Quite amazing really.

    Even the non-defective 45s don't come anywhere close.

    ...In Australia there were a few Motown releases on His Masters Voice (Fingertips, Mickey's Monkey, When The Lovelight Stars Shining Through His Eyes etc.) before Staateside and, subsequently, T-M.

    Before that, W & G released at least one (and possibly more) Motown 45 - 'Do You Love Me' by the Contours.

    I'd show you all a scan of it - only I seem to no longer be able to post scans on here since the last round of alleged 'upgrades' to the site... ranting_1.gif

    BTW the UK T-M logo was apparently designed by an in-house EMI art person in about 5 minutes flat, after Berry Gordy rejected a bunch of considerably more elaborate ones that he'd spent days creating. BG liked the simplicity and a legendary logo was born!

    Tony

    W & G in Australia also released the Marvellettes "Please Mr Postman" and, amazingly, Bunny Paul's "I'm Hooked".

    But it all started in Australia with Bob Kayli on London (that's if you count Bob Kayli as a Motown record) and then Barrett Strong "Money" and the Miracles "Shop Around" both on London.

    Then there was the Spinners "That's What Girls ... " on Aussie Astor in 1961 (again that's if you count the Spinners as a Motown record) and then, as you say, HMV and Stateside and finally Australian Tamla Motown.

    Also, interestingly, there was actually an Australian Tamla Motown Appreciation Society, based in Melbourne, whom I understand were associated with Dave Godin and the UK counterpart.

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