Nick Soule

"The Groove" by Don Davis & The Groovers on Northern is a different recording/session than the version on Thelma, much more lo-fi and raw, but it is the same song. The B-sides on both 45s "Let's Do It" and "Leap Frog" are entirely different songs. I have a recording that I made of "Let's Do It" that I can send you - it's the better side anyway.

From popsike (sold in 2014 for $83):

I have both and can confirm that the Zodiac and Boo recordings of "Come On Back" are the same. I'll dig out the Freddy & Bobby 45 this weekend to see if "Mary's House" has a spoken intro.

Here's what I have in no real order: Bell Sound acetate: "Van Dellas" - I'll Have To Let Him Go "Satin Tones" - I Know How It Feels / My Kind Of Love Contours - The Real Reason / Bewildered Hitsville Sound Studios: The Supremes - Surfer Boy Jobete: Eugene Remus - You'll Never Miss A Good Thing (alt take/lyrics) Herman Griffin - You Never Met A Guy Contours - I Don't Know How Right It Is Gino Parks - Lonesome Days, Lonesome Nights George Fowler - I Always Wind Up Hurting Myself The Majestics/Monitors - Hello Love Kim Weston - Do Like I Do Singin' Sammy Ward - Before It's Over Kim Weston & Mickey Stevenson - Baby, Say Yes Temptations - What's So Good About Goodbye Liz Lands - Don't Wanna Lose What I Got Popcorn Wylie - Blame My Heart Marvelettes - Silly Boy Miracles - The Day You Take One Eddie Holland - It's Not Too Late (alt. take) Unknown - You Tore My Tower Down (asked Sidney Barnes and George Kerr about this one, and they couldn't remember the artist's name) Connie Van Dyke - It Hurts Me Too Monitors - Guilty Marvin Gaye - Talk About A Good Feeling Unknown - Take It Slow Velvelettes - That's A Funny Way Dub # ####: Satintones - My Beloved (alt. take) Marvelettes - Somebody Brought It (incomplete vocal demo) Little Stevie Wonder - Graystone appearance radio ad Jobete NY: Unknown - Say I'm The One

Price includes shipping. Payment via PayPal F&F. The Masqueraders - How / I’m Gonna Make It (La Beat) VG++ $2,100

Price includes shipping. Payment via PayPal F&F. Al Williams - I Am Nothing / Brand New Love (Palmer, DJ) VG++ $6,500

Looking for a clean copy of: Mary Wells - You Lost The Sweetest Boy on a US Motown promo.

I personally don't hear any similarities between a young Michael and whoever the lead is on "Heaven Is In Your Arms". Another thing worth noting, the backing vocalists on "Heaven Is In Your Arms" are female - there are several back-and-forth verses and sighing/swooning noises that give this away in case you can't hear it in their voices: Lead: "Girl, without your love I would surely die" Backing group: "Boy, I'm gonna keep you by my side" Lead: "Believe me girl, this is no lie"

Apex Record Pressing in Chicago was the plant that did all of these records, and there are plenty of examples of them pressing records multiple times with different fonts, typos, credit positioning changes, etc. - The Creations on Zodiac is a good example; there's even a rare pressing with the label name printed as 'Zodica'. Is the timeline above that suggests that the Aspirations/Admirations records were pressed 6-ish months apart just a guess or information coming from a label owner or group member? I would've thought they were all pressed within a short amount of time of one another.

Anyone with a copy that's willing to ship it to the US? Thanks!

Harry Gates sang lead on that record. I definitely hear the similarities between his voice on "Toy Soldier" and the Equadors record.

What is the connection between the Incredible Upsetters and the Equadors exactly? Do you have a list of the group members? I don't hear the lead vocalist on the Miracle 45 on any of the four songs on the Audio Lab EP.

As much as I would like to own a copy of FW and would pay a lot of money for one, I don’t think I’d be able to turn down the actual artist asking to buy it from me - especially for £20k more than it had ever sold for at the time.

The Kim Weston was withdrawn. I know several collectors that heard it on the radio in different parts of the US at the time it came out and tried to buy a copy from their local record store, who then called the distributor and were told that it was withdrawn from sale. Despite being pressed at ARP, Monarch, and Southern Plastics, it's definitely rare. I've been stuck with a VG- ARP pressing for years, and I've had zero chance at an upgrade despite posting want lists and having saved searches. I see 7 copies on Popsike. One of the 7 is the same copy auctioned twice, so actually only 6 copies with the last one being sold in 2014. Of those 6 there are only 2 that were given a grade above VG+. I agree that the price is high considering what it's gone for historically, but I think the main selling point was that it was a M- copy.

He states that he bought the collection in the early 80s, so assuming it was before the consolidated series, there were about 1,500 US 45 releases at that point. Multiply that by label variations and promos and the number is a lot higher, but probably not in the tens of thousands, at least not with just US releases.

The double A-sided promos that use stock labels were caused by the pressing plants running out of promo labels. Usually due to pressing flaws that were eventually corrected and the flawed records being discarded. This seems to be more common with ARP pressings, but there are examples of it happening with Southern Plastics pressings as well. Frances Nero was pressed by ARP, Monarch, and Southern Plastics (promo only) with the Monarch copies being the rarest, like everyone above has already said. Jr. Walker's "Pucker Up Buttercup" Soul 35030 is the last release to use the lilac/white labels. It seems like Monarch must've found a box of unused labels because the 3 prior releases they pressed were all done on the purple swirl design only.

It was the only other visual difference between the two labels. H### is a master number numbering sequence that Motown used for a brief time starting in 1961, I think. H909 is a later master, and you would assume there would be audible differences, but I don't hear any. And according to both Reginald Bartlette's book and the Don't Forget The Motor City site, both masters/versions were released at the same time.

I listened to both copies/versions and timed them.

H818 has the incorrect running time. H909 has the correct running time of 2:30. If there's an actual difference in the mastering, I can't hear it.

Interesting to see that the Johnny Hampton went for a "normal" price after one sold for £4,000 last week.

Looking for a clean copy of: Kim Weston - A Little More Love (Tamla 54106) Any help appreciated. Thanks!

Both sides are instrumentals. I've been told by other Detroit collectors that Doc Kyle pressed them at the request of Martin Koppel, but he accidentally used the instrumentals instead of the vocals and because of that Martin never bought them. The only other copy I've seen in person was cracked in half (there's another one on Popsike that suffered the same damage though), but I guess the winner of the auction was told by the seller that it came from Doc Kyle's estate, so it's possible that the rest of the unsold copies could surface in the near future.

I have an order form/record from Motown’s files for an order placed with Columbia’s LA plant for 3,000 stock copies and 500 DJ copies (if I’m reading it correctly) of Sammy Ward’s release on Tamla 54049:

I was reminded to listen to this today (multiple years later), and Jesse's "I'm Gonna Take You" is the same song as The Sheppard Boy's "Take You From Your Guy". The only copyright info I can find for either version of the title doesn't list either Jobete or Brohun as a publisher.

http://seabear.se/MPS1.html The above has pretty much everything pre-consolidated series. There are some promo-only records that were issued with picture sleeves that aren’t included, but I assume you’re only asking about standard releases anyway.