The Yank

Her 1st 45 under its original title before the change to "The Wallflower" -

Rita Dacosta- 252 pounds Communicators and Black Experience Band - 117 pounds

I don't think RCA Victor "bypassed" it's promotion stage. I think they just sent out black stock copies as promos. Once in awhile, you can find one like this which reads "Many Thanks Stan Pat" who did do promo work for RCA. Whether or not anyone would consider this a promo is debatable.

Just to clarify- are you saying RCA didn't release promos before 1954 ? Here's one from 1951-

I think the 45 came out in late 2019. New Zealand Soul (?) -

Superb Philly Soul from the group -

I would say your copy is an original release. I've seen other copies with the larger print (see pic below) but discogs has both of them as originals. Not sure what someone means about the longer series as both labels show the release info for the "I'm The Man" side as Fraternity 1002 B .

Billy's 1st Chess was reviewed by Billboard and was said to be "a dangerous disk". The guitar riff was re-used later on Mickey and Sylvia's Classic "Love Is Strange" -

Are there many originals with the address at the top of the label ??

What an original looks like -

Also available as an Italian 45-

Great title -

The Ruby 45 was issued in 1965 (#31) -

A fine B side -

The same info is on discogs.

It looks like Vessie's problem with the Shirelles occurred earlier than one of the links suggests -

I wanted to add one more release to the Karma discography at the top of this page- Karma #601- Dr. Tom and His Friends- "Happiness Journey"- the 1st single to use a moog synthesizer according to Sam Coplin.

This ? -

Actually, it was even longer than 18 months- Andrea Henry was release January/ February 1968. Janice came out June/ July 1970.