Guest DIRTY Posted July 26, 2007 Posted July 26, 2007 Hi all. Can anyone help me with: Marvin Gaye - Desperate Situation / Love starved Heart - TAMLA - 42286-0288-7 Cheers C
Guest Posted August 1, 2007 Posted August 1, 2007 Can anyone fill me with info (so to speak!) on this as well. I know its supposed to be unissued, but someone mentioned a picture sleeve of it existing that ISN'T a bootleg. Can anyone shed any light?
pikeys dog Posted August 1, 2007 Posted August 1, 2007 Can anyone fill me with info (so to speak!) on this as well. I know its supposed to be unissued, but someone mentioned a picture sleeve of it existing that ISN'T a bootleg. Can anyone shed any light? Short version. Motown made these for a business convention in limited numbers. Delegates were given a copy each - loads were left behind and 'swept up' by Janitors as most record execs don't have the means to play them. Comes in a authentic 60s style sleeve, but catalogue numbers are obviously modern.
Simon T Posted August 1, 2007 Posted August 1, 2007 Can anyone fill me with info (so to speak!) on this as well. I know its supposed to be unissued, but someone mentioned a picture sleeve of it existing that ISN'T a bootleg. Can anyone shed any light?
Simon T Posted August 1, 2007 Posted August 1, 2007 Short version. Motown made these for a business convention in limited numbers. Delegates were given a copy each - loads were left behind and 'swept up' by Janitors as most record execs don't have the means to play them. Comes in a authentic 60s style sleeve, but catalogue numbers are obviously modern.
Guest Posted August 1, 2007 Posted August 1, 2007 Cheers Joe, Simon. I see the last one on ebay went for £200, but I guess it is an 'official' release after all. Lucky janitors!
pikeys dog Posted August 1, 2007 Posted August 1, 2007 A record shop in Sheffield was offered a handfull (not five - literally a hand full) at £8 a pop but turned them down. I missed the one copy that they had bought for £20. Ended up paying about £60 for one a month later, this was around 1999?
sepia Posted August 1, 2007 Posted August 1, 2007 i got mine @ a leeds alniter,when 1st came over.(late 90s) guy had 5 copies for trades. all had 99cents(or $1.99) stickers on them.(about 4 stickers on every copy). think i traded nightwinds for it. sold it for £100 a year later
Guest Netspeaky Posted August 2, 2007 Posted August 2, 2007 I think you'll find the copies came via New York dealer/collector Greg Tormo, who got them off a person who was cleaning up after a Motown Convention. I got mine off Greg not long after he had copies.
Ian Seaman Posted August 2, 2007 Posted August 2, 2007 I heard that Dave Withers was there helping the janitors hoover up and taking a few copys away with him. I got mine a few years back off Henry Atkinson. Ian.
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