How rare is this and I wonder how many was sold before it was noticed and withdrawn

It states on discogs rare first press, immediately withdrawn due to incorrect title "Good-By Cruel World" and replaced with the correct "Good-By Cruel Love".

 

Thats right, it is pretty rare mis-spelt. Ive no idea how many were prodcued, but I guess the miss spelling was at a single pressing plant? which is why there are not that many with that label in circulation... as to the exact numberrs, I couldn't say... but here is my old copy with Map design and spelt correctly.

Edited September 30, 20222 yr by Mal C

rarity wise on that variation theres nothing in them and actually as many copies of `world` have gone thru ebay than `love copies.. about 30 of each.. of course you have the map design promo, issue copy and canadian tamla the all have the correct title

As far of pressing variation it's as rare as any of it's American pre counterparts IME. Once you'll start to seek any of the 4 variants (2 pressing plants involved for both the promos or the stockers leaving the rarest of them all aside ; the Canadian one) any will prove hard to come by.

Especially in very clean condition IME too. The legend of "the rarer" mispelt title dates way back before 'thintenet' days. Back then the record collector's rumours was that it was much rarer. When such odities would make generic geeky collectors go 'Whoooo' with such a maccabre title.

To the pleasure of ambitious record dealers pushing up the commanding value. And to crown it all Motown had few "rarer" titles in stock to keep Motown collectors (big wallet) into the game. Because this Linda Griner 45 was played on the  Pop-Corn scene back in the seventies as well.

Edited October 1, 20222 yr by Tlscapital

Incidently I had a stock copy up for sale yesterday and it sold last night

But none are spelled correctly-Goodbye is one word.

Just for the pedants amongst us!

<Cough> The American Merriam-Webster dictionary states: 

  Quote

Goodbye

variants:  good-bye  or less commonly goodby  or good-by

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/goodbye
 

Thus both titles are correct. Very possibly ‘world’ was changed to ‘love’ because the former sounded too suicidal for a youthful buying public.

 

 

Edited October 1, 20222 yr by Amsterdam Russ
Klaritee

It's a demo though - not intended for sale. So in what sense could it be 'withdrawn'? It's also the b-side. So a titling error on the b-side of a demo: doubt they'd bother going to any trouble to 'withdraw' copies would they?  

According to the Don't Forget The Motor City web site, "Good-By..." was the A side and also the side that received airplay- 

  On 02/10/2022 at 15:31, The Yank said:

According to the Don't Forget The Motor City web site, "Good-By..." was the A side and also the side that received airplay- 

Yes, it was.  It only got sporadic play for a couple weeks in Chicago, and didn't chart.  It was played a reasonable amount in Detroit.  But Motown didn't give it much marketing push.  In 1964, Linda Griner was still in school, and too young to sing in nightclubs.  So, Motown knew she couldn't go out on the road to promote her record.  And she lived in The Washington D.C. area, so, she couldn't make appearances in Detroit.

Her 45 was released in January 1963 but didn't make the Baltimore radio stn's chart till April ... so it must have been a 'slow burner' with regard to its radio plays (at least over on the east coast). 

Her 45 must have been popular in the area at the time as she was added to the bill for a big show on Carr's Beach at the beginning of May ... 

 

Edited October 3, 20222 yr by Roburt