The song 'Bingo' (b/w 'Somewhere') was issued twice on Wingate as by both the Dynamics and the Dramatics - catalogue number Wingate 018.

Due credit to the man Ron Banks himself and to Soulful Detroit for the background:

Their first 45 [Dramatics] did not appear on Wingate until August 1966 however. The song "Bingo" was also erroneously credited to the Dynamics. Heikki uncovered the background in an interview with Ron Banks. "There was a group already here called the Dynamics. When they delivered the label copy and stuff to the record plant here in Detroit, they just thought it was a misprint and went ahead and put the Dynamics. So the first five hundred of that box came with the name Dynamics. We were upset about that. This was our first record..."

So, if there were 500 copies of the "Dynamics" credited copy issued, how many were released as correctly credited to the Dramatics I wonder?

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Richard

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Edited October 21, 200816 yr by Premium Stuff

Have often wondered about that. Mine is credited to the 'Dynamics', but I'm sure I've seen 'Dramatics' copies listed for sale at various times.

However, it was all so long, long ago...

  mel brat said:

Have often wondered about that. Mine is credited to the 'Dynamics', but I'm sure I've seen 'Dramatics' copies listed for sale at various times.

However, it was all so long, long ago...

got a Dynamics,friend of mine's got a Dramatics.Great dancer,,,,,but the flip,now there's a record.

  KevH said:

got a Dynamics,friend of mine's got a Dramatics.Great dancer,,,,,but the flip,now there's a record.

Hmmm!, Will have to dig that one out for a listen... if I can find it!

  KevH said:

got a Dynamics,friend of mine's got a Dramatics.Great dancer,,,,,but the flip,now there's a record.

Well said that man Nice tune,think its called 'Somewhere'(Mine's a Dynamics)

Regards.

  Dark Horse said:

Well said that man Nice tune,think its called 'Somewhere'(Mine's a Dynamics)

Regards.

Bought this off Gilly years back. Sure he said this was the more difficult one to find and he's knocked about Detroit a bit.

I would have said the Dramatics is the harder to find of the two. The logic, if there are only 500 Dynamics copies would be that there are fewer of the Dramatics credited copies.

On what the price guides say, I only have Manship's 3rd edition. That doesn't mention the Dramatics copy, only the Dynamics at £15.

However, Tim Brown's guide (first) has both discs - the Dynamics at 'Low' and the Dramatics at £75.

I have both of these 45s and a couple of the Dramatics ones I think. I also have a juke box strip for this record credited to the Dramatics which I will post up over the weekend sometime

Cheers

Richard

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  Premium Stuff said:

I would have said the Dramatics is the harder to find of the two. The logic, if there are only 500 Dynamics copies would be that there are fewer of the Dramatics credited copies.

Wouldn't that depend on how popular the record was? If the 500 Dynamics copies got the record popular then a Dramatics re-run could perhaps have been 1000 or 2000 even?

Bet someone knows and is laughing at this thread!!!!

Kev

Also not seen any w/d of either of them. Wonder how they go-who are they credited to????

Kev

  Kev Moore said:

Wouldn't that depend on how popular the record was? If the 500 Dynamics copies got the record popular then a Dramatics re-run could perhaps have been 1000 or 2000 even?

Bet someone knows and is laughing at this thread!!!!

Kev

Yes, you are right Kev .

Anyone know whether 500 would have been the minimum number to press up for this kind of 45 at the time?

Cheers

Richard

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Edited October 24, 200816 yr by Premium Stuff

Copy credited to the Dramatics.

Plus a juke box strip

Cheers

Richard

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I see JM listed a Dynamics copy this week in E+ condition at £50!

Cheers

Richard