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Lee & Leopards - Motown Memories Feature

Lee & Leopards - Motown Memories Feature magazine cover

An interesting motown feature based on the recollections of one of the group can be had via The Blade website (link below)

Motown moment: Toledo's Prentiss Anderson recalls local hit that came out of historic label

He was there in the label’s early days.

Anderson, 80, is today a reverend at New Bethel Church of God in Christ in Toledo, where he serves under Bishop Rance Allen. (Allen himself brings a noteworthy musical pedigree to the congregation: The gospel vocalist heads the Grammy Award-winning Rance Allen Group.) But in the early 1960s, Anderson was one-third of Lee and the Leopards, one of the early groups to sign with Berry Gordy at Motown Records....

Full article here

https://www.toledoblade.com/a-e/music-theater-dance/2020/03/08/motown-moment-toledo-s-prentiss-anderson-recalls-the-local-hit-that-came-out-of-the-motor-city/stories/20200308002

 

Both sides can be listened to below, here the 'Trying to make it' side has always been the preferred one....

 

 

 



Edited by Mike



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