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Maybe nothing really new to add, but it will include interviews with Mike's widow, Gracie, and likely Johnnie Mae Matthews, Louvaine Demps, Dee Edwards and Rudy Robinson, as well as some of the people I've done videos for already, like Melvin Davis - and various record samples. I sometimes wonder if Soulful Detroit will still be around in 10 years - hopefully these videos will stay on YouTube.

Cheers... I'm now compiling a few interviews to tell The Mike Hanks Story.

Hi, Robb Fred's voice was fairly quiet, but I thought this interview sounded pretty clear - it's certainly much better than many others I have. I can understand you've labeled it a Correc-Tone recording, but it was cut at Special and I don't think Wilbert Golden funded that session. If that's the case, Golden's involvement is nonexistant and the commonality is just Robert Bateman. The first Correc-tone records were released in early '62 - I think I made a mistake on my Robert Batemenan interview (caption). I've a note of Pickett appearing at the 20 Grand (solo) in June 1961, so he must have left The Falcons by then. Yes, Fred said Mr Hicks (and also maybe Fred) went to New York with that Gloreco 45, but couldn't get a deal. Fred didn't want to go on the record about Mike Terry and Mr Terrell, but he told me Terrell locked Mike in the trunk (boot) of a car and was going to shoot him. He didn't know why.

I don't think Detroit has ever really recovered from the riots in '67. I haven't been over for 20 years, but back then the core of the city was dead.

You can hear the difference in audio on that Majestees' recording - it does actually sound like they are in a garage. I'd assumed Fred and Skeets was him and maybe Bobby Eaton. Probably others did, too. I had some technical issues with this video and ended up getting a new laptop so that I could convert the file OK. It seems those two bits of actual 60's video of the group that I incorporated caused the problem. BTW, you have my name mixed up - it's Graham. Merry Christmas to everyone.

Thanks, Yank... I did interview Bill Craig back then. At teh time he was still doing something in the music business and Don Mancha came while I was in his office.

My interview/video with Fred is now done and on YouTube...

Thanks My Fred Bridges interview/video should be on YouTube shortly. I've had some serious computer-technical issues.

Thanks - I didn't realise that. The singer sounds like Bobby Eaton.

I'd like to know what this record is like... I've searched YouTube, but just got lots of McDonald's stuff. The ZTSC number makes it fit in with the Zodiac songs that Fred Bridges was doing with Robert Eaton and Richard Knight - Brothers of Soul.

Yank - I would really like to include the two suveys in the YouTube video I'm doing for a Fred Bridges interview. Can you please send higher res' copies?

Thanks. Also, please let me know if they use the same track.

Roy 'Cortez' Butler also recorded Mary's House (Boo 1003). It has that British accent intro' I referred to and is on YouTube.

Maybe the Boo label release was first.

Thanks... dating ZTSC numbers is tricky, but it seems you have the ZTSC number wrong. It's 121799 & 121800 (not 127199) I referenced Ric-Tic releases to get that Zodiac date, as I reckon Ric-Tic 45s can be dated relatively easily. For example: No Greater Love (ZTSC 121130) was the final Golden World 45 and got released around August 1966. Can't Stop Looking For My Baby (ZTSC 121547) was the first the post-Golden World 45 on RicTic around Oct. 1966. Ain't Love Wonderful came out around January 1967 (ZTSC 125728). You Gave Me Something - again Fantastc Four - (ZTSC 126078) I reckon came out in May 1967 These numbers make me believe the Zodiac 45 (ZTSC 121799) came out quite early in 1967. You can see both copies (Zodiac and Boo) of Come On Back and Mary's House have the same ZTSC numbers, so they must be the same recordings, but with different labels attached. Fred told me the group's name was created in July 1967, when riots broke out in Detroit and Soul Brother got painted on windows...

The Zodiac 45 (1008) predates the Boo release (Brothers of Soul) and I wonder if it's the same recording. Looking at the ZTSC number, the Zodiac disc seems to have been released in early 1967 and I think the Boo 45 was released some time in 1968. The flip of the Zodiac 45 is Mary's House, which is different to the Boo 45, which has The Love I Found In You. I'm in the process of editing an interview with Fred Bridges and would like to know the score. Fred mentions that Russ Teranna did a spoken intro' to - I think - Mary's House, using a British accent. I don't think I've heard this song and can't find it on YouTube. Mary's House was re-issued on Zodiac 1011, but only credited to Bobby Eaton.

Yes, It was the production that I remember.

...it is clear that Bateman set up BrianBert Music to be used for Correc-Tone's operations. I'm not sure, Robb. In Robert Bateman's interview, he says he established Brian-Bert while at Motown and the first 45 that I can see with it on is The Satintones' "I Know How It Feels", which is from around June 1961 (There may be earlier songs). The Fred Bridges' 45 likely dates from later that year, looking at the ZTSP number. Robert said that he'd left Berry Gordy many times, but had gone back. He had obviously become disillusioned at Motown and so Brian-Bert was formed, but I just don't see a direct connection between Brian-Bert and Correc-tone.

I reckon that Versatile 45 predates the first Correc-tone release (Wilson Pickett).

Yes... I also liked hearing how "If You Need Me" was influened by Sam Cooke's "You Send Me" and that Robert had left Berry quite a few times prior to going to Wilbert Golden - my guess is that Fred Bridges song (cut at Special) must have been during one of those times. I wish I'd asked about him singing with Mickey Stevenson's brother - what that group was. Also where he sang with The Chimes (he mentions a place that sounds like 'Carnogy Center', but may be 'Carnegie'.

Cheers - I didn't think I would teach you anything, Robb, but as us older fans disappear, hopefully these YouTube videos will still around to tell the story.