The Yank

I"m not an expert on 60's record industry lingo but, it looks like Del La Rose(??) was an owner of Hi-Lite/REM/ Pillar-

According to the book "Come And Get These Memories", Brian's wife Sharon did have a mother named Dorothy Pierce. But... I can't confirm that name was used by H/D/H to work outside of Motown.

You might want to tell Johnny "does this for a living" Manship that "Joey Byers" who wrote "Somebody's Always Trying" for Ted Taylor(auction ends 19/05/2021) is actually Joy Byers the wife of Bob Johnston. No one is perfect- we all make mistakes sometimes.

I think Nick is right -

And here's a later single written by Valerie-

I've never seen any 45's on the Big D label in Chicago. I did see a couple of the Tempos "Don't Leave Me" in Chicago stores though and a Diamond Jim 45 but I don't remember which one. I can't say where or how much effort Amy/ Mala/ Bell put into promoting the Big D label but, they did think enough of the label and Mr. Bo to include them in this Cashbox ad from July, 1967.

"I Ain't Gonna Suffer"was also distributed by Bell -

Most of the Riley's releases got airplay in Detroit and Cleveland. The Tempos "Don't Leave Me" did pick up some airplay in Miami (#37). Major Lance's "You Don't Want Me" also did well on the survey.

Here's the back of the Cd previously mentioned (the song is at 22) - the song was not released. I'm not sure what the seller is trying to do -

By 1968, the labels also had a branch office in Los Angeles (from Billboard's August 31st issue)

Another 45 by Al, "Black Lady" got some airplay in Chicago -

I'm not sure about the James Velvet =James Ellis theory. According to the liner notes of the Ace CD "The Satintones Sing!", James Ellis left the music business after the Satintones split up.

Cashbox describes the song as "a soulful ballad".

I did some snooping on you tube and someone says Don Oriolo told them the group was from Newark, New Jersey. Another person says this singer was part of the group-

This is the only info I could find on the group besides details about their 45 - (from Cashbox - July, 1972)

Billboard ad from April '62-

I'm glad you cleared that up- the rest of the records that were mentioned did have some kind of Detroit connection- that one made no sense which is why I posted it. I knew someone would have the answer.

In Mark Ribowsky's book "The Supremes- A Saga Of .....", the author says the Primettes did backup work on the following songs- Eddie Floyd- "I'm Her Yo Yo Man", Wilson Pickett's "Let Me Be Your Boy", Gene Martin's "Lonely Nights", James Velvet's "Boquet Of Flowers", Al Garner's "All I Need Is You", James Dee's "My Pride", Don Revels "Return Of Stagger Lee" and "several songs by Gino Washington".

Here's a couple of surveys with Bobby at #29 and # 19-

A couple of sleeves for 45 acetates-

The web site that posted the listing has now removed it, so it's now a mystery to me also.

Nice looking sleeve from a company I've never heard of -

I think you're right- I got confused with the Discogs info. "The Complete Stax/ Volt Singles 1959-'68" has the release date as August 19th.

The 1st release had "What Will Tomorrow Bring" as the B side.

This article is from the August 23, 1969 issue of Record World. So it looks like the Mala 45 came out first and the ATAC version was second.