The Yank

"I'm Gonna Miss You" topped the charts in Chicago and stayed there for 2 weeks-

Don't thank me- the info about Reggie/ Tony came from ......... Keith Rylatt's "Groovesville USA ".

The real name of the Tony Daniels mentioned in the link is Reggie Lamont who recorded for Bevel, Sport and Blue Rock.

According to "Groovesville USA", the Valtone label was ownded by Frank and Val Brown. The same source says the lead singer of the Fabulous Apollos was the same Joe Matthews who recorded "Ain't Nothing You Can Do".

Always thought it was a female singer which is why they covered it up as -

Press release from around the time "Funny" was released -

Jimmy did chart on this Flint, Michigan station going up to #25 -

The label's releases do get a bit crazy- besides the two 109's, there are two #111's, two #114's, three #115's, and 3 #116's.

The song "Jimmy Mack" has nothing to do with the artist. H-D-H came up with the idea when they attended an Awards ceremony and the song "He's So Fine" won for song of the year. He had recently passed away and his mother accepted the award and said "Ronnie Mack when are you coming back" which gave H-D-H the idea for the song.

Here's the Relic Lu Pine comp- over 10 for sale on Discogs -

Discogs has the above mentioned list, the Johnny Woodson and this 45 - Cashbox wrote about the flip side of this 45 in an August, 1960 issue.

It looks like Spry was briefly reactivated for a few releases in '60 / '61 . There's Class Music again -

After skimming through many of the early releases, I didn't see any Class Music but did see a lot of this publisher -

The Cenco label was around a few years before the Ike and Tina album. Here's some info from Cashbox in 1962 and a release from around that time. While there is no mention of Spry Record Corp., It does appear to be the same label .

According to Amazon, Lamont's book is now pushed back and has a November 26th release date.

I like the description for the Champion label - "a pop-r&b line in the Tamla/ Motown groove"

The Don't Forget The Motor City web site and the liner notes to "Brenda Holloway - The Motown Anthology" show the writer of "Suddenly" to be SID Talmadge.

There was a Malcolm Talmadge (Sid's son?) who also worked at Record Merchandising Co.

Chris Clark was recommended to the Motown Detroit offices by Hal Davis in 1963 . She worked various office jobs (receptionist etc.) for a few years before cutting her first single. While she may not have worked with the West Coast writers/ producers there is a definite West Coast connection. It is believed that Connie Clark and Chris Clark are not the same person.