
Everything posted by The Yank
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Marvin & Tammi, Albums
If you can find the Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell "The Complete Duets" CD set from 2001, there are a few unreleased/ alternate takes on the double CD .
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Motown 7S Box Set - Volume 2
Mine arrived today. A few of the discs don't lay perfectly flat but all of them play through and sound fine so I'm happy with my set.
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American Soul Music Magazines?
From what i remember there might have been a few- I think one was called Right On! You can also try Jet for articles and of course Billboard, Record World, Cashbox if you can find them .
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Tammy Montgomery...if I Would Marry You.....checker
That CD you have pictured has single version and the unreleased version of the song as a duet with Jimmy Radcliffe.
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Darrell Banks - Open The Door To Your Heart 2014 London
This is quite a find ! Out of curiosity, why was the London issue withdrawn and how did "Open The Door ..." end up on Stateside ?
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Buying Apathy Or Have All The Soul Buyers Left Ebay In Their Droves?
Even on e-bay USA, there's so much junk that keep getting relisted over and over again. After awhile you don't want to even look because its the same 45's you saw last year ! In less than a week, over 10,000 Soul 45's have been listed because e-bay is having another free listing special. And wading through Country and Pop 45's that have no reason to be in the Soul section gets boring quick. I think e-bay has just gotten too big!
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In A Starbucks... About To Start Dancing
I was in a Starbucks's last week and heard "Helpless" by Kim Weston and then "Lonely For You Baby" by Sam Dees. "Helpless" isn't that strange but the Sam Dees really threw me!
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Boogie Man Orchestra
Mel was the vocalist but the record was written, produced and arranged by Don and Ken Marrier. The biggest difference between the Mel Hayes and the BMO release is the Mel Hayes instrumental is 4:11 and the Boogie Man Orch. instrumental clocks in at 3:19. (see post #23) Also , on the BMO release the instrumental is the A side while on the Mel Hayes release the vocal is the A side.
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Boogie Man Orchestra
Here's a copy of the Mel Hayes version. I've only seen these as promos. And yes there are quite a few copies of the 45 in the States.
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Bob Abrahamian R.i.p
I don't think this has been mentioned before- thanks for posting the link !
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Flowers For Bob A Funeral From Soul Source Members
Thanks for posting this Allison- I just donated and had no problems.
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Bob Abrahamian R.i.p
This is a big shock. Wasn't a close friend of Bob but whenever I had any questions about anything he was more than happy to share his vast knowledge. Very sad to hear this . R.I.P. Bob !!
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Darlene Love - A Long Way To Be Happy
The liner notes for "Phil Spector- Back To Mono" list this being made in June 1965. So I guess we know the record was made in June.
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Darlene Love - A Long Way To Be Happy
By the time "A Long Way..." was made (June 1965), Darlene already 5 solo singles released, 6 if you count Philles #123- "Stumble And Fall"/ "He's A Quiet Guy". That 45 was withdrawn and the catalog # was used for the Ronettes' "Walkin' In The Rain".
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Collecting Motown
This looks like every U.S. copy of "Shotgun" you've ever seen until you notice the title is "SHOT GUN" instead of "SHOTGUN" and that the group is listed as Jr. Walker & "all the stars" .
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Collecting Motown
Here's the U.S. release of "A Package Of 16 Big Hits" before they changed to the more familiar "titles in boxes" format .
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Collecting Motown
It was an older Sister that got me involved with Motown. The 1st 45 I heard was "You Beat Me To The Punch" by Mary Wells. It got quiet until late 1964 and then BOOM! She had the Supremes' "Where Did Our Love Go" album, "Baby I Need Your Lovin" by the Four Tops, "My Girl" by the Temptations, "Nowhere To Run" by Martha and the Vandellas, "Ask The Lonely" by the Four Tops, "I Can't Help Myself" by the Four Tops and on and on from there. The 1st record I ever bought was "Ain't That Peculiar" by Marvin Gaye which I still like to this day. For my second 45 I took a bad turn and bought "Bus Stop" by the Hollies. Still don't know what I was thinking !!
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Ric Williams (Zodiac Records) Obituary
Thanks for posting !
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33Rpm 7" Records With Small Spindle Holes
The creation of 45 rpm singles really had nothing to do with jukeboxes. RCA came up with the format to counter Columbia's 33 1/3 rpm format. The 1st 45's came out in March of 1949 - the 1st 45 jukebox ( the Seeburg M100B) came out about a year later. The 1st 45 players came with a changer so you could stack the records on top of each other. The engineers found that the records were getting damaged when dropped.To reduce the stress and friction, they came up with the larger hole. A lot of the 33 1/3 singles were usually in stereo and were made for jukeboxes. In 1961 RCA released singles in both 45 rpm and 33 1/3 format and were eventually going to phase out 45's. The idea was a disaster and in 1962, the 33 1/3 format was discontinued. Finally, I don't know why Sam made two versions of "Sugar Dumplin' ".
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Motown Tracks That Never Received A Us 7" Issue
The Tops recorded "...Last Train..." as album filler. Believe it or not, that same album ("Reach Out") has another Monkees song on it- "I'm A Believer".
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Dvds Of Soul Train, Maybe The Whole Set ?
Try amazon- lots on there- didn't see a whole set though. You might want to get an all formats dvd player if you don't have one already. Just checked e-bay usa - over 60 on there including the 9 disc dvd set.
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Tamala Lewis - Jobete
Did any Motown artist record a version of Tamiko's "Don't Laugh If I Cry At Your Party" ?
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There I Was Skimming Through Some 45's On Ebay When
I guess e-bay will list just about anything.
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Johnny Daye - Good Time - Jomada
It was probably pressed at another pressing plant. I don't know why this would have been booted.
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Johnny Daye - Good Time - Jomada
I've got this on the white label with no "promotional copy not for sale..." etc. The dead wax has an ARP stamp, BRS and M-603-A for the "Good Time" side .