Obscure/odd Record - Anybody Know This ?

[Kegsy]

The Superiors      First I Look At the Purse B/w Loves Gone Bad   Auger records White Plains New York

 

Cant find anything on the web except a copyright listing for the release in 1986.

 

Cant see it being the "What would I Do" Superiors although I believe they are from New York.

 

Probably a white or mixed race group by the sound of it.

 

Anybody else know anything about it.

 

Kegsy

 

 

[boba]

I don't know the record but "first I look at the purse" is obviously a cover of the contours, right?

 

White Plains is a pretty White city.

[Robbk]

I don't know the record but "first I look at the purse" is obviously a cover of the contours, right?

 

White Plains is a pretty White city.

Yes, most likely it's a remake of the Smokey Robinson song (maybe in a slightly different style from that of The Contours).  A 'super-lily-White City, eh?  Like Shaker Heights, Hillsboro, Bel Air, Grosse Point, Arlington Heights, Olympia Fields and Mount Royal used to be?  Ha! Ha!  Well, I've met racists who hate Black people, but still manage to listen regularly to Motown music, and like it a lot  I don't understand that kind of behaviour.  But, there's no accounting for Human behaviour!   

[Mr Smithy]

I was there in the 80s, and about 3 years ago.

Didn't look that white.

wiki says

The racial makeup of the city was 64.93% White, 15.91% African American, 4.50% Asian, 0.34% Native American, 0.07% Pacific Islander, 10.37% from other races, and 3.88% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 23.51% of the population.

Looked about right

 

 

[Kegsy]

I don't know the record but "first I look at the purse" is obviously a cover of the contours, right?

 

 

Yes it is and the flip Loves Gone Bad is a cover of the H-D-H song done by the Elgins & Chris Clarke.

 

Kegsy

[Kegsy]

Yes, most likely it's a remake of the Smokey Robinson song (maybe in a slightly different style from that of The Contours). 

 

 

I don't know the record but "first I look at the purse" is obviously a cover of the contours, right?

 

White Plains is a pretty White city.

 

 

Looks like this is an elusive one so here's more info.

 

Both sides produced by Harold West  An Omni-Muse Prod.

Both sides executive producers Joseph Davidson & James P. Toschi.

 

That's all there is on the label.

 

Its kinda Mod/Beat type versions of the songs.

 

Kegsy

[Robbk]

Yes it is and the flip Loves Gone Bad is a cover of the H-D-H song done by the Elgins & Chris Clarke.

 

Kegsy

I don't remember a version of "Love's Gone Bad" by The Elgins.  But, I do remember the "Garage Band" version by The Underdogs.

[Kegsy]

I don't remember a version of "Love's Gone Bad" by The Elgins.  But, I do remember the "Garage Band" version by The Underdogs.

 

 

You are quite correct, I'm getting my Downbeats mixed with my Underdogs.

More water with it next time.

Kegsy

[Roburt]

You are quite correct, I'm getting my Downbeats mixed with my Underdogs.

More water with it next time.

Kegsy

I don't know about the 45 being obscure & odd ......... BUT ...... you certainly are !!

So the record has found an appropriate home    

[Kegsy]

I don't know about the 45 being obscure & odd .........

 

 

Based on the replies so far its completely unknown and may be a one off.

I may try e-mailing Jerry Osborne's organisation and see what they know.

Kegsy

[Gene-r]

Yes, most likely it's a remake of the Smokey Robinson song (maybe in a slightly different style from that of The Contours).  A 'super-lily-White City, eh?  Like Shaker Heights, Hillsboro, Bel Air, Grosse Point, Arlington Heights, Olympia Fields and Mount Royal used to be?  Ha! Ha!  Well, I've met racists who hate Black people, but still manage to listen regularly to Motown music, and like it a lot  I don't understand that kind of behaviour.  But, there's no accounting for Human behaviour! 

 

Pretty much what acts like Pat Boone, Georgia Gibbs and the Crew Cuts were doing with their blue-eyed cover versions of black R&B records during the '50s - the words kick and balls come to mind.

Edited September 9, 2013 by Gene-R

[Roburt]

Pretty much what acts like Pat Boone, Georgia Gibbs and the Crew Cuts were doing with their blue-eyed cover versions of black R&B records during the '50s - the words kick and balls come to mind.

I think this uns a bit different. Pat Boone & the likes were rushing their cover versions out as soon as possible after the original version had started to sell to blacks,

This 45 features cover versions of tracks that were almost 20 years old. I hardly think that they are trying to 'steal sales' from the original versions when this was released. 

[Kegsy]

Pretty much what acts like Pat Boone, Georgia Gibbs and the Crew Cuts were doing with their blue-eyed cover versions of black R&B records during the '50s - the words kick and balls come to mind.

 

 

I fail to see wtf this contributes to this thread.

 

kegsy