Trying to find out where this is from? has to be very hard to find on Grant Records, came out of course in the States on Mica, top tune and hard enough to find a clean copy on the well known lable but where is Grant records from? I suspect it's from Europe or maybe the Far East? any help or imformation on this one would be most helpful.

Regards - Mark Bicknell.

It's Dutch Mark. Never even heard of it, let alone seen it before. Wonder if it had a pic sleeve...

  Pete S said:

It's Dutch Mark. Never even heard of it, let alone seen it before. Wonder if it had a pic sleeve...

Thought it may of been from Europe, cheers Pete and this one has no picture sleeve, must be pretty obscure then, you watch some smart arse on here will have the picture sleeve if there is one, let's hope so.....lol

Regards - Mark Bicknell.

looks like this detroit label. never seen that ray & dave before though. i think i have several records on the label just can't think of any of the others at the moment. mostly pop/rock stuff as i recall but maybe a few could be called soul.

  carl_p said:

looks like this detroit label. never seen that ray & dave before though. i think i have several records on the label just can't think of any of the others at the moment. mostly pop/rock stuff as i recall but maybe a few could be called soul.

The plot thickens here lol Mica Records release of Ray And Dave is Chicago based, now we have a possible Dutch and Detroit connection how odd this record collecting lark is lol

Regards - Mark Bicknell.

yes, kinda odd too that they used the same number as the bobby laurel 721.

  carl_p said:

yes, kinda odd too that they used the same number as the bobby laurel 721.

Makes me think the Grant 'Ray and Dave' is not from the same Grant as the 'Bobby Laurel' 45 you mentioned, must come from outside the USA?

Regards - Mark Bicknell.

Edited June 6, 200915 yr by Mark Bicknell

  Mark Bicknell said:

Makes me think the Grant 'Ray and Dave' is not from the same Grant as the 'Bobby Laurel' 45 you mentioned, must come from outside the USA?

Regards - Mark Bicknell.

it has the same label design and number though. it kinda looks like a foreign boot where they stole the detroit grant label design and just pressed the ray and dave on it. what is on the other side of the record?

Well, ray and dave were from detroit so i would guess they just choose grant to release it overseas?

  carl_p said:

Well, ray and dave were from detroit so i would guess they just choose grant to release it overseas?

i never knew ray and dave were from detroit (I don't know anything about them), do you have more info? Jimmy Dobbins name is on the record as a writer also, I think, and he had a record on a chicago label also. Who were ray and dave?

  boba said:

it has the same label design and number though. it kinda looks like a foreign boot where they stole the detroit grant label design and just pressed the ray and dave on it. what is on the other side of the record?

The flip is 'Six Lonely Nights' tend to agree with you regarding it possibly being a foreign boot, there is no ident or numbers in the deadwax nothing, sound quality is spot on as Mica USA original, very odd this lol

Regards - Mark Bicknell.

It's a Dutch pressing, as noted by the STEMRA on the label. Not sure what the connection between the Detroit Grant and it's Euro counterpart are though.

  Mark Bicknell said:

Trying to find out where this is from? has to be very hard to find on Grant Records, came out of course in the States on Mica, top tune and hard enough to find a clean copy on the well known lable but where is Grant records from? I suspect it's from Europe or maybe the Far East? any help or imformation on this one would be most helpful.

Regards - Mark Bicknell.

  carl_p said:

Well, ray and dave were from detroit so i would guess they just choose grant to release it overseas?

They may have been from Detroit but the Mica release is from Chicago.

Regards - Mark Bicknell.

  monster said:

It's a Dutch pressing, as noted by the STEMRA on the label. Not sure what the connection between the Detroit Grant and it's Euro counterpart are though.

Thanks Monster both you and Pete have now confirmed it's Dutch but still a mystery using the Grant design, incredible what came out in Europe.

Regards - Mark Bicknell.

  Mark Bicknell said:

They may have been from Detroit but the Mica release is from Chicago.

Regards - Mark Bicknell.

if it was licensed in to mica from detroit it could have been licensed overseas also.

it sounds like a chicago record and not a detroit production though but i'm not sure.

  boba said:

if it was licensed in to mica from detroit it could have been licensed overseas also.

it sounds like a chicago record and not a detroit production though but i'm not sure.

Very possible but I bet Ray And Dave had no knowledge their record came out in Holland lol or that it became a popular tune in soul clubs around the world, like I said weird this record collecting lark.

Regards - Mark Bicknell.

Here's a short bio on ray monette. or perhaps i have the wrong ray?

https://www.rareearth.com/ray.aspx

Edited June 7, 200915 yr by carl_p

The address and credits on the Mica release suggest it's a Chicago record, produced by Bob Lee, infact I'm pretty sure he had something to do with the label (owner?) if my memory serves me correctly, certaily there is a Bob Lee/Jerhart/Mica connection via Jimmy Robbins etc. Mica Records Inc, 1823 South Michigan Avenue, Chicago. Wrong, Wrong, Wrong was written by R.Caldwell, Jimmy Dobbins of Crash records fame out of Chicago and Bob Lee.

Regards - Mark Bicknell.

Edited June 7, 200915 yr by Mark Bicknell

  carl_p said:

Here's a short bio on ray monette. or perhaps i have the wrong ray?

https://www.rareearth.com/ray.aspx

I think you have but who knows lol

Regards - Mark Bicknell.

your right they were a chicago group according to the book chicago soul by robert pruter.

  Mark Bicknell said:

The address and credits on the Mica release suggest it's a Chicago record, produced by Bob Lee, infact I'm pretty sure he had something to do with the label (owner?) if my memory serves me correctly, certaily there is a Bob Lee/Jerhart/Mica connection via Jimmy Robbins etc. Mica Records Inc, 1823 South Michigan Avenue, Chicago. Wrong, Wrong, Wrong was written by R.Caldwell, Jimmy Dobbins of Crash records fame out of Chicago and Bob Lee.

Regards - Mark Bicknell.

al benson was the label owner, not bob lee. bob (the jerhart guy) produced stuff for the label near the end of the life of the label.

  boba said:

al benson was the label owner, not bob lee. bob (the jerhart guy) produced stuff for the label near the end of the life of the label.

Thanks knew there was a connection there somewhere.

Regards - Mark Bicknell.

Mike and Ray on Giant was what the detroit group i was confusing with ray and dave on mica.

  boba said:

i never knew ray and dave were from detroit (I don't know anything about them), do you have more info? Jimmy Dobbins name is on the record as a writer also, I think, and he had a record on a chicago label also. Who were ray and dave?

RAY / DAVE DAVIS. Say no more. european.

  boba said:

it has the same label design and number though. it kinda looks like a foreign boot where they stole the detroit grant label design and just pressed the ray and dave on it. what is on the other side of the record?

coming from holland the bootleg theory is quite plausible. I'd say that would be the case if I had to guess.

i've come across a few myself.

  dylan said:

coming from holland the bootleg theory is quite plausible. I'd say that would be the case if I had to guess.

i've come across a few myself.

You mean you have found copies of the Ray And Dave on Grant or other Grant records? thanks for the information, just wanted to find out where it came from.

Regards - Mark Bicknell.

  Mark Bicknell said:

You mean you have found copies of the Ray And Dave on Grant or other Grant records? thanks for the information, just wanted to find out where it came from.

Regards - Mark Bicknell.

no sorry I was speaking a lot more generally.

I have got dutch boots of kim tolliver and jimmy lewis on other labels.

  dylan said:

no sorry I was speaking a lot more generally.

I have got dutch boots of kim tolliver and jimmy lewis on other labels.

Cheers for that, so it's from Holland, possibly a Dutch bootleg? still an interesting item I think, any ideas on value?

Regards - Mark Bicknell.

  Mark Bicknell said:

Cheers for that, so it's from Holland, possibly a Dutch bootleg? still an interesting item I think, any ideas on value?

Regards - Mark Bicknell.

Hi Mark, it's true it comes from Holland, I had it 10 years ago from a dutch guy and I sold it £50 at this time...

Few records came out on this label, I still have "Jackie Payne - No puppy love" I'll send a picture if you want (& I think I had "Go go train" on the same label, but I sold it too)...it's a strange label but I think it came out at the end of 60's - early 70's...or it's a reissue label for the Belgium popcorn scene?...I don't know!

I never saw picture sleeves from this label

Regards Romain