Haven't bought much lately but these three were recently delivered-
Little Herman- "Gotta Keep Walking"/ "I'm Gonna Put The Hurt On You" - Arlen
Mike and Bill- "Somebody's Gotta Go" - Movin' Up
And I finally tracked down this unreleased Irma Thomas tune-
I don't know about DFTMC having access to all the files. Not sure what "assigned " means either- it could mean they wanted her to record it
but that doesn't mean she went in the studio and actually did. The song was also considered for the Four Tops but they were on tour in Europe.
Lamont Dozier remembers the Isleys were begging HDH for songs. I guess it all turned out well in the end .
According to "The Motown Singles- Vol 6- 1966", the track was recorded September 22, 1965 and assigned to Kim Weston.
The Isleys vocals were overdubbed on December 1, 1965.
First pressings of "Sweet Soul Music" only list Conley and Redding as the writers.
A lawsuit was filed by J.W. Alexander for Sam's publishing company (Kags) and was settled with Conley and Redding giving Cooke and Kags publishing credit. Also part of the suit was the promise for Otis to record more of Sam's tunes. Strangely enough, the flip side of "Sweet Soul Music" was J.W. Alexander's "Let's Go Steady".
I've only seen the Drapels on Volt #113 but.. in The Complete Stax/ Volt Singles 1959-1968 box set, Volt #113 is listed as Bobby Marchan and Volt #114 is listed as the Drapels "Wondering..." with a footnote saying "some copies of this single list it as #113".
No need to apologize about the confusion- the Good Old Gold label was the label I was referring to when I said
it was a bootleg label.
The Goldies 45 label was a legitimate division of ABC/ Dunhill.
Not 100% sure but I think this is a bootleg label. It's been around since the mid 70's and they seem
to release 45's from different companies with no rhyme or reason.