The fact that there is a Christine Cooper 5-minute,1-track slot, suggests there is likely to a full 24-minute single side.
The question about track listings, especially the Temptations needs a bit more of an explanation.
FYI to clarify what the "Voices of Vista" records are. They were shipped in boxes of 4-7 records every 2-weeks for almost four years. Each box would contain one or more sides with a primary artist and interview with musical tracks. Depending on the box, the B-side might be another artist but is often 3x short one track promo's. Then most boxes would also have a promotional disc which included 1-minute, 30-second, 20-second promo "spots" with a jingle and words by host Herb Oscar Anderson.
Each box also included a booklet with scripts and music release sheets. The albums almost all thank the American Federation of Musicians. Why? Because the union allowed the artists to be interviewed, record and played by radio stations for free.
So there is no track listing, because it was supplied in a booklet.
When the program first started they shipped 200-boxes out to major market radio stations, by the time the program lost its funding, they were sending out boxes to 600+ radio stations.
There is no such thing as a single VoV record. It was part of a set. Sellers have confused, and destroyed the history of this label/project by breaking out the records and selling the really popular ones for peak prices. For example, this sales is a complete mess, it's just a collection of Voices of VIsta discs bundled for $195, which is mad. Lesley Gore – Voices of Vista complete set of 7 radio shows (rarerecords.net)
re the Temptations then, as an example.
if its a 24-minute track, it will be one or more of the group being interviewed, 3x pretty standard tracks, not something special for the recording. The track includes promo's and often interview with a VOV volunteer.
If it's a 4+ minute track, it will be an artist talking about VOV and one of the three music tracks from the 24-minute track. If you find a 4+ minute track on a record, that almost always means that there was a 24-miute record.
If it's a 1-minute track with a load of others on the same side, it's just an artist promoting VOV and there will be no artist music.
How do I know all this?
I'm a music researcher and I write the ctproduced website. I do some commercial/paid work, and I bumped into "voices of vista" like everyone else while researching a 1950/1960's black fol singer, Leon Bibb. Except unlike other people who just make up sh*t about what these records are, and almost everyone does. I actually went to the Library of Congress earlier this year and spent a day looking at the archives of the Office of Economic Opportunity to find out.
To answer one question above, about the Temptations.
I'm working on a few things between other things.
1. Sort out the discogs entries for the Voices of Vista. This is a big project, and since there are no hard records, it's taking time.
2. I'm collecting as many of the VOV discs as I can. I already have some 8-boxes of discs, and 30-seperate discs. My long term objective is to put all the discs on the Internet Archive, and submit the physical discs to the library of congress for long time archiving. The single interview sides are great although a bit "stiff" sometimes.
3. I'm not doing this for profit, and won't pay the prices for the sets above. There are enough copies sitting around in junk/2nd hand stores in the US that they'll come up every now and again on ebay. I just bought a "set" of 10-discs or 2-box sets from a seller who list them for $12.99 Surprise, the set was missing the Leonard Nimoy and William Shattner discs. Which were of course listed for >$100 elsewhere. I'll wait.
Here is a discogs entry for a complete box without the spots cc and sports dd disc that is almost always included in every box. Voices Of Vista Show No. 58 (microgroove, Vinyl) - Discogs
Any questions?
++Mark.
https://ctproduced.com
