The Yank

The Reflections on Crossroads were a different group. The Reflections did have two prior releases prior to "...Romeo and Juliet"- "In The Still Of The Night" on Tigre and "Helpless" on Kay-Ko.

You're right- they took the writing credits from the B side ("Can't You Tell By The Look In My Eyes") and used them for "(Just Like) Romeo & Juliet".

The Lana release is definitely a reissue. Someone must have made a mistake with the songwriter credits. It wouldn't be the first time.

There's also a version by Ike and Tina Turner on Innis.

Sad to hear about this- Eddie did a lot of work in the late 60's/ early 70's with mostly female artists (Diane Cunningham, The Lovelites, Sunday Williams, Candace Love and of course the Classic Sullivans) and left us with some great 45's .

The term "Soul" was in common usage before 1963. Here's some of the liner notes from the 1961(?) album "The Soul Of Ike and Tina Turner". "Soul in the past few years has become a very successful commercial term, more often than not, it is just a commercial term". I think it would be almost impossible to find the 1st usage of "Soul" to describe the musical form.

Billboard may not have used the most accurate or up to date terms to describe their charts but, they were well aware of what was going on in Music. Here's the cover of a 90 page supplemental issue from June 24, 1967 -

The version on the Disco Trek album runs 4:32.

The Temptations CD "You've Got To Earn It" has four fine performances from Paul - "I Can't Think Of A Thing At All", "I Now See You Clear Through My Tears", "Last One Out Is Brokenhearted" and "Forever In My Heart".

Also released as a Brazilian EP.

The single just missed the Pop Top 10( #12) in the U.S during the week of June 14, 1969 so I would guess May '69 would be more likely.

The Spiral Starecase's album was also titled More Today Than Yesterday".

Here's another addition to the list- Natalie Cole passed away on December 31,2015.

I remember seeing this when it was first listed and didn't think much about it. Completely astounded !!!

I would definitely visit Val Shively's store.

The answer to your question is right at the top of the label "Golden Goodie". Does anyone know of any other releases in this series ?/

I've got 2 Mirwood 45's with "Available Worldwide" on both sides- The Olympics "Same Old Thing" and Jackie Lee "Oh My Darlin' ".

Here's a few more for the list- Jo Armstead, Valerie Simpson, Betty Wright, Pat Lewis, Bettye Swann, Diana Ross, Darlene Love's sister Edna Wright aka Sandy Wynns, Laura Lee, Patti Austin and last but not least Soul Source member and Northern Soul Goddess-Lorraine Chandler.

Pm'ed you .

Someone in the U.S. made up company sleeves for a lot of the Doo Wop labels that were around in the 50's. Don't have one but will try to post a link if I can find them for sale. I know I've seen Parrot, Blue Lake, Chance etc.

I live in the U.S. and have never seen that Zodiac sleeve, especially with a Ruby Andrews 45 in it.

I've seen copies with the star on the left side, and copies with the star on the right side,and even copies with stars on the left and right side of the title. I'm guessing it might have to do with different pressing plants ??

There was no legitimate release for this- there was a "pressing" made with J.J. Barnes "Everytime I See You I Go Wild" on the flip side though.

I was watching the 45 on e-bay- it started out as $9..99 and went to "buy it now for $700"- the seller forgot to get rid of the low opening bid sentence. Looks like someone got a deal !

Here's a few more with that theme- "Country Fool" - The Showmen, "Country Girl" - Vickie Baines, "Tramp" - Lowell Fulson or Otis and Carla, "Country Girl" - Johnny Otis.