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Kenny Gamble's rare 45 in this 1965 chart...

A few ballads on this one from January, 1966...

Mamie Galore at the top... and other great 45s listed

Another chart one from 'Frantic' Ernie... Here's a photo of Ernie and other jocks on WJLB - ad from 1968...

A chart from the Michigan Chronicle...

A clip from the Michigan Chronicle...

1966 chart from Detroit station WCHB...

Here is another from WWRL...

This is a WCHB (Detroit) chart from 1968...

Here is one from New York with a Melvin Davis's disc highlighted... .

I used these WCHB (Detroit) one for a video about The Magictones... hence the highlighted part at the bottom.

Here's another Detroit chart - again used it in the YouTube video as mentioned above. Some great 45s listed:

WCHB - Detroit - September 9th, 1968...

I never saw any references to his ATAC releases in the Detroit newspaper (Michigan Chronicle). I have these dates for his earlier 45s: Correctone 503 - May, 1962 Sonbert 3770 - 1964 Ric-Tic 100 - May, 1964 Creed 1051 - 1965 WIG 9005 - Nov. 1966

I have this one from a Detroit newspaper... just used it in a YouTube video of Emanuel Laskey's interview, hence the highlighted part.

You may be interested in this interview with Emanuel - I've just uploaded it to YouTube...

I've just uploaded a slide show on YouTube with an interview I did with Emanuel back in 1999...

Here's another one... Also recorded by Johnny Gay....

Cyril had a hand in this, and also the flip... .

Hi, David. Hopefully life is good and I'm glad you enjoyed listening to Sam. He was a real character. Hopefully I'll get some more interviews edited in the near future.

Cyril's recording career included 'Hard Times' with The Majestics on the Contour label in the late 1950s, and later with Two Plus Two on Velgo. Here's his obituary: https://www.dignitymemorial.com/obituaries/las-vegas-nv/cyril-clarke-10525067

I just deleted this video as the audio didn't seem to be fully working - the song tracks played, but the interviews didn't. I've just reloaded it - if anyone finds any issues, please let me know... a

Joe Hunter mentioned 'I'm Too Far Gone - To Turn Around' when I interviewed him, but the label does not credit him as the arranger. Joe said he enjoyed working with Don Robey - it was less stressful than at Motown. Here's another Duke one from Detroit...

Yes... James was closely involved with Johnnie Mae on her early recordings and you sometimes see his name as a co-writer..