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Most of those foreign language Motown songs I remember were recorded between 1964 and 1966, including songs by The Supremes, Marvin Gaye, Stevie Wonder, The Velvelettes, The Four Tops, Martha and The Vandellas, and The Marvelettes. I remember a few from 1967, but didn't pay attention to that from 1968 on, despite being in the offices periodically throughout much of the 1970s. But, I don't remember the individual song titles. I only have a few on vinyl, and don't remember where I have them stored. I do remember that The Velvelelettes recorded more than an LP's worth in French, because Cal was a fluent speaker in that language. Those were mainly recorded from 1965-66, possibly with a few more in 1967. Most I remember from 1964-67 were German, Italian, French, and Spanish. And many of those have already been mentioned by other posters in this thread.

Can we listen to it?

I have no doubt that they were a studio only group. I've never seen any physical vinyl or acetate record of a group with that name, or any other reference to a group with that name. I suppose that they could have been an actual existing group who made studio recordings and released recordings under another group name. Budget record labels used both such existing groups for studio work, and also individual singers to piece together an ad-hoc group only for that single session.

Happy Holidays, everyone, and a healthy and prosperous New Year!

If a person spends much (possibly inordinate amounts of) time searching for, and procuring, streamed music, in the form of digital files, of a given genre and subtype, through purchase, procuring through cost free offer, "stealing" from websites not "offering" said sound files to visitors, requests of friends, and swapping homemade files, wouldn't that person have a collection of digital files (of that particular type of music), and, therefore, shouldn't he or she then be considered a collector of digital files (of that particular type of music ??? (-especially if said person takes great amounts of thought and research, and takes pride in his or her historical knowledge of the genre used in arranging the listings of such files in particular categorical subgroups.)

You are, indeed, a true "collector". People who collect more than one type of item are even more of a "collector" than the people who collect only one type of thing to the "Nth degree".

To me, a record collector (or a collector of anything) is: (1) A person who places a high priority in procuring many items of a given specific or similar type, and (2) Continues to look for examples of those he or she does not yet possess, and may enjoy (3) arranging them in particular orders (such as by catalogue issue number and shelf or wall representing city of company headquarters), or groupings (such as by issuing record company and/or record distributor), and may enjoy (4) continuing to search for them until all the items of that type are procured, and who might (5) only will except non-original items (later re-issues) as placeholders for until an original can be obtained (and placeholders are not considered part of the collection) *This separates their "collector identity" from their fandom identity. (6) Is willing to pay more than market rates for items missing from a series, and willing to keep items in such groupings, even when they are liked a lot less than most in the series, or even sometimes not liked at all, just to own the complete series of all that type of thing, and might be (7) willing to amass what to a "normal" person would seem a ridiculous amount of such items, taking up a ridiculous amount of space (some of which would involve a an extra storage facility for which might also require regular additional periodic payment, and whose acquisition might cost to what a "normal" person, would be an inordinate (or scandalous) amount of monetary assets for which said items would seem unworthy.

Stands to reason. I knew Bateman was a co-partner in HIB Records. But, he had been living in New York for 2 years by then, and although still bouncing between the 2 cities, was staying a lot more in The NY Metro Area than in Detroit. So, I figured he might have sold his house in Detroit.

Was that house owned by Popcorn Wylie? It certainly wasn't the home he lived in in 1965, from what I remember, and the photo shown on his webisode on Soulful Detroit.

You've seen purple at my house, back in 1980 or so.

Thanks Ken, I didn't know that Joe Martin had owned Relic Rack Music Shop and Relic Records. I did know that Lavatelli had owned it at one time.

So far, I have found out that Joe Martin owned both labels, but George Clinton was only involved in Marton Records ("Mar" for Martin, and "Ton" for Clinton), as a co-owner. But, Kay=O was either owned solely by Martin, or co-owned by Martin and the owner of DW Records. I'd also like to find out the story of why 3 writing crews for NY Jobete Music, George Clinton's, George Kerr and Sidney Barnes', and Gene Redd Jr.'s, ended up working with Ed Wingate's facilities, having offices in his buildings, and have their records either issued on Wingate's labels (Clinton's on Golden World and Ric Tic), or created new Detroit-based labels to release their Detroit produced recordings (George Kerr's Maltese and Gene Redd's Stephanye), and have them distributed by Wingate's labels/distributors. So, if anyone can answer the questions, I would appreciate that, as well.

This thread was spawned off the "Miss Motown" thread, because this is more about George Clinton related New York Jobete Music Office-generated productions, and their issuance on non-Motown labels than about Raynoma Gordy and her work for that office. I am primarily interested in Marton and its apparent sister label, Kay=O Records, because every song on their only 3 records I've seen, have been published by Jobete Music Co. I have done some research, and found out that the owner of New York's Marton Records was named Martin (I have forgotten his first name) but had it at one time. Also, he was the owner of Apex Music Publishing Co. and Martin Music , and Apex productions. On both the Marton records, and on the Kay=O record, Jobete Music shared publishing rights with Martin's Apex Music, and on the Kay=O record, Jobete shared with both Apex and Martin Music. So, it is very clear that both labels were at least Co-owned, if not solely owned by Martin. It's also clear that The Tamala Lewis record's sides were produced by George Clinton and his Parlor Productions (through Jobete Music). The Roy Handy on Marton was also produced by Clinton, and his Parla Productions through Jobete Music's office. The Bobby Moore record lists D.W. productions, who produced Bobby's D.W. Records as lead singer of The Fourmost/s. This was New York Bobby Moore (former Little Bobby Moore ("Do The Ginger Snap" on King Records), as well as "Pinky" on Seg-Way Records, and "It Was a Lie" with The Fourmost on D.W./Red Bird, rather than Atlanta's Bobby Moore (who sang with The Rhythm Aces). That is all I know about these 2 labels, and I'd like to know more about them including Martin's first name, his place in the business, and whether or not he was just a financier, or had more to do with the day-to-day operations, what recording studio, arranger, and musicians they used, and if they had any connection to D.W. Records (other than recording Bobby Moore), and whether or not a Jobete Music producer produced the recording used for Jobete's proof of ownership recording and Martin just used that, or D.W.'s Production crew recorded the final mix version. Can anyone here add more information?

Thanks Graham. Actually, I don't have Raynoma's book. Is there a list of the 12 1964 songs? Actually, I'd like to see a list of the 1963 and '64 NY Jobete, and 1963-65 LA Jobete songs, IF they exist. I'm sure I have most of the records issued with NY Jobete songs (probably all). But, I'm too lazy to look blindly through my NY wall and major records wall to find them. I can't spare several hours. I guess I could order Raynoma's book through Amazon.

I have seen lots of New York Office generated Jobete Music song publishing dates from 1963, So, I take it to mean that your statement "no records were published in 1963" referred to no vinyl records being issued contains those NY Office-generated songs in 1963.

Thanks for posting this. It substantiates things I had both heard and surmised.

As I remember, it was late may or early June of 1964 when Raynoma had the Mary Wells stock pressed up, and the office was closed down in late June or July. I think Raynoma went to New York in April of 1963, and there was some front work done bey her and Eddie Singleton, and the office was up and rolling in May. I seem to remember recording credits from May, and song publishing dates from that month, too.

You still haven't answered my question about why you ALSO mentioned her "moving to NY in 1964"). Was that just you relaying to us someone else's error or misstatement?As far as I had heard, Miss Ray and Berry were already separated (not living together) when she left to New York to set up the office. And I also knew that she rented an apartment in New York. So it could be that she came back to Detroit in early 1964 to get the last things out of her house, or the people you paraphrased made a mistake on which year it happened. Which is it? Or tell me why those numbers read "1964". Thanks.

Yes. That is what we all have known for a longlong time. What I don't understand is why Graham said above 3 times that people helped Raynoma move to NY in 1964, especially given that he also mentioned twice in the same post that she left for NY to set up the office in 1963.

Thanks for this information, Graham. I always read and heard that Raynoma left Detroit in mid 1963 to set up The Jobete Music office in New York, and moved there (getting an apartment) then. Yet you talked about her moving there in 1964 in several posts above. Perhaps she kept a home in Detroit until early 1964, and commuted back and forth until then? But the New York office's operations started in mid 1963. So she must have been mostly in New York by that earlier time. The New York office was closed down already by late summer , or, at the very latest, the very beginning of fall, 1964.

Clearly, he wanted to read stories about the early days of this website. Running his cursor over the profiles wouldn't have produced them.

I go back to 2006. That's 16+ years. I've been a member of Soulful Detroit Forum since 2 weeks of its beginning, near the beginning of 2001. Rod Shard tipped me off about that one. That was my first Soul music forum. I was on another Northern Soul forum from 2003-2006. That forum had the word, "Soul" in its title. But, I can't remember its entire name. Some members here were on that one as well. And it was, of course, run by Brits. When they folded in 2006, they direct their members to come to THIS forum; so that's how I got here. I came over to that other Northern Soul Forum at the invitation of guitarist Bobby Eli, Ray Monette, Bob Babbitt, and some other SDFers, who said that that forum was good, too. I've enjoyed the exchanging of information and great discussions over the years, here, and learned a lot. I'll be active here until I become completely senile or pass on. And I'm looking forward to the next 10 years of interesting threads and news about new discoveries of old Soul records, and getting to listen to high-quality '60s Soul that is new to my ears! I can't believe that it's been exactly 50 years since I finished amassing probably 95% of my record collection.

Yes! Absolutely that. But, doesn't that also mean "Not available or eligible for resale", which legally would apply to ANYONE trying to sell it?

I have seen hundreds of them sold in used record bins in record shops. So the "Don't Refund' or "Don't Return" command, meaning "Not for re-sale", wasn't heeded in spirit.

Actually, I started at Soulful Detroit in 2001, a few weeks after their forum started up. That 2010 starting date reflects the date when their Administrator, Lowell Boileau, re-instated that forum, on a new platform. The 1983 assumption came from the 19.8.83 handwritten on the G&G record's label. Which, incidentally, is NOT written like an American or Canadian, but rather like a European (based on the long hook on the numeral 1).