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On what label? In/from which country?

Thanks Chalky, MGM & 45cellar - all good info, a big help

Thanks for confirming the 'yellow' as a Bootleg. Just by the image and the way the label 'sits' made me think that but visual is not always definitive Yep, I missed that '73 OOTB Boot - thanks

My info say US = Dec 1965 UK = 3 Jan 1966 I can't find a Cameo / Parkway Singles release database to confirm.

Thanks Brummie

For purely personal interest, could anyone help with the factual releases of this record. I have done some digging and have come up with various 'bits of info' & labels. The 1st label I think I understand - an original 1965 US Parkway Promo, some got pressed before the rest of the order was cancelled (hence the extreme rarity & price). The 2nd - which I've found as being listed as ...... US 'Parkway' label doesn't fit the story since supposedly there were no US standard issue releases - so is this a reissue and from what date or a bootleg?? I read somewhere that due to litigation, they pressed & released the record 'away' from Chubby's main fans in Philly??? (I know about the UK Outta Sight 2012 reissue) The 3rd & 4th label are of the original 1965 UK Promo and issue - correct? I know about the the UK London reissue from 1978. The last label is the 'Northern' UK bootleg on North. Does anyone have any background on its history (who/when etc) please? So besides the 1978 UK London reissue & the 2012 Outta Sight release ....... have I missed any? Thanks for any help anyone can provide

Yes, please do let us know the correct information, and also any other information or photo's etc that you may have. Thank you for getting in touch with us all

Hi, I know it's 5 years ago, but did you sell all the box sets and the above? I haven't spent time looking at tracklists of any, so just a very late general enquiry to begin Thanks

That's really helpful Yank - thanks. I will go and look for those albums for the liner notes if I can. I was sure, for example Ooh, It Hurts Me, that I heard it first via one of the Kent's and yet Outta Sight released it as a 45 which confused me because of those albums you've listed, but then I wondered if I heard it played somewhere before I left many blue moons ago, which got me to thinking was it ever released as just a demo ..................... and so on. When you have songs written, produced etc and that sound as good as these from a group which quickly faded away and with such a pedigree of singers, getting some good background info becomes all the more interesting, not just who was who, where & how they formed etc, but also why they were ever recorded and then their songs sat in the vaults unreleased (and so on). I read a lot of autobiog's of groups etc to help get an idea of the world of recording artists, managers, producers, songwriters, music lawyers etc, but they don't always give the reasons (other than money) for recording so much material that then was never released. My perception I know is slightly skewed from so many decades now of Northern and what that means to me, how lucky I am to have had the chance to hear such greatness. Thanks again Yank

Me too

Hi, I know the above is old and it's helped fill in some holes (so thanks for the above) as I've been digging away to try and understand what happened to the recordings when so few were released? Which singles/songs were recorded but never released. Who discovered them (Kent or Outta Sight)? Any idea on their discovery (a story or two perhaps)? What was the year of the recordings? Why were they not released? Who controlled them? With so many similar named groups, it's that much harder to try and work out answers to the above. Can anyone help please?

Wow, I can't recal the who, when or where I found & bought Georgia Pines (unheard), but that blue & silver styrene Amy issue just called to me to buy it, as in that 9th sense as a collector that tells you not to pass this one by, and I do recall getting home from whatever nighter it was, putting it on the player and being blown away. I've got the Amy CD, but what saddens me (I've just had my memory piqued seeing the name Mighty Sam McClain) is going to the likes of Discogs, his music for 'normal people' begins in 1986, with not even a mention of the album 'Papa True Love' or anything pre-1986!!! I'm trying to imagine a world of people who's lives run on auto-pilot and the Top 20 lol. All the music within the title of Northern Soul that we 'can' take for granted, that the rest are blind to. I know how glad I am to be on 'this' side of the coin. Time to do some more digging Check out some of his 1986 and later stuff - he's still got the voice !!