The Yank

Does the Joni Wilson recycle the Parliaments track or is this a new version ?

Album version -

The original -

A must ! !

The year posted on you tube for this release is wrong- it actually came out in early 1962. There's also a post suggesting the group is actually the Five Royales doing some moonlighting. If you listen to both sides- it could be .

Two more for the thread -

Here's another 45 from Richard Anthony- probably related to the Virtue artist instead of the European one -

Thanks for the info- after some research I found out the Lou Courtney is probably a mid '65 release while Howard's version is from February/ March 1966. There's also some lyric changes in the 2nd version which is why the writer's credits are different.

"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 .