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  1. Robbk
    It certainly should sell well in East L.A./Whittier/Downey/Pico Rivera, etc.
  2. Robbk
    That has "much newer" sound than the '60s. It surely doesn't sound like Johnny Pate or Riley Hampton's '60s arranging, nor the Columbia musicians they used. It sounds like a '70s arranger and band trying to "copy" the original.
  3. Robbk
    This pressing plant variation looks like the Dart Record Sales Distribution Co.'s pressings and label font. that was Art Sheriden and Ewart Abner's distribution company, that distributed VJ and its family of labels and distributed labels in The Midwest and South.
  4. Robbk
    Great mid'60s-style group sound. It sounds like about 1965. Too early to have a "collective/singular group name". Could it be possible that that group was called The Majextics, and it was a label misprint, with the "s" left off? Does anyone know where Equador Records was located, and where the artist/group came from, and his/their names?
  5. Robbk
    The age is right. But how do you know that the young woman in the photo is Bonnie Brisker? If she WAS acting in that play, then she was an actress as well as singer. And then, she could well also be the actress, Bonita Brisker.
  6. Robbk
    What is "this"? No picture showed up. What label? What record number? What songs?
  7. Robbk
    Wow! Pretty darned professional recording for a "festival recording".
  8. Robbk
    Pearl Jones was the lead singer of Sidra's Embraceables, and also sung backgrounds at Motown, and for Aretha Franklin. I also seem to remember her having a single-artist 45 release on a small, Detroit label (it was black-was it Diamond Jim?)
  9. Robbk
    "A Dream" by The Creations on Zodiac was actually sung by The Brothers of Soul (Fred Bridges, Bob Knight and Bobby Eaton). I'd love to hear The Precisions singing "A Dream". Can we get a link to an MP3 of it?
  10. Robbk
    Bonnie Brisker was the younger sister of Miller Brisker, a Detroit jazz saxophonist who toured and recorded with Aretha Franklin. He was the arranger on Bob & Fred's Big Mack record, and played sax on many Jazz albums headlined by other Jazz artists. Interesting, that along with Magic City owner, Ernest Burt, Motown's Alan Story and Timmy Shaw were involved. I wonder is Ms. Brisker recorded for other labels under a different name or was a member of any Detroit groups. I haven't seen any reference to anything else she recorded. Does she bear any relation to actress, Bonita Brisker?
  11. Robbk
    I agree. It may have been a studio demo or acetate. Many times, these have no artist name listed.
  12. Robbk
    That's a strange way of referring to what actually happened. Satellite Records wad the first name for Stax Records. The name changeover occurred before Volt Records was started up. So, the Volt issue was merely a re-issue of the Satellite issue, on a different label of the Satellite/Stax/Volt/Enterprise/etc. family of labels.
  13. Robbk
    For all we know, it could have been an unknown group on a studio demo, and was just given a false name. That situation has occurred many times on the scene. Bonnyvetts is a very strange name for an American girls group.
  14. Robbk
    I think that staggered V.I.P. was a misprint, and the real design intended was straight vertical. I've seen the vertical on some other WDJ issues.
  15. Robbk
    And Stevie is at LEAST 16 or 17 here. So Jamerson played upright bass fiddle some years after "the early days of Motown".
  16. Robbk
    It sounds nice and Soulful to me. I never heard it or heard of it back in the day. Bur, i have heard of it from the Northern Soul crowd over the past 10 years or so. What label was it on? Who produced it, wrote it, arranged it? Anyone know who the group members were? Where they were from? Can we have a label scan?
  17. Robbk
    No. It seems to be the same issue as the scan above, from Popsike, with the straddled V.I.P. Here is mine: By rob_k at 2011-05-21
  18. Robbk
    My Downbeats' White DJ is an RCA (Midwest) pressing,- K4M-4907-1.
  19. Robbk
    The Taylor Tones on C & T is supposed to be just Sherri Taylor and her mother. But, I've also heard that Sherri's sister (or cousin?) was also in the group.
  20. Robbk
    It's also on Kent's recent release, "Truly Yours" by The Spinners.
  21. Robbk
    Tom DePierro and I found a Jobete Music Acetate which was titled: "Come On Back To Me Baby". I have seen it listed as "Come On Back To Me Baby (Forever In My Heat)" and simply, "Forever In My Heart". It was one of those Jobete Music songs with several working titles.
  22. Robbk
    I'd like to see a "stationary" scan - so I can read the credits. The split second on the video only allows a quick glance at the font on the word, "Hope".
  23. Robbk
    Yes, Both of those women had some crackin' good rare Detroit records back in the '70s. I even bought some off them!
  24. Robbk
    The label design on "Dear Santa" looks like those New York pressed Laurie Records-distributed labels from 1964-65. The recording sounds 1965-ish. I'd bet it was recorded in 1965. It may have been released later. But I'd be surprised if it was released as late as 1968 with that design. Even 1967 would surprise me. It seems that hope's early recordings were made in Baltimore. But, I read that at least one side of one of the 1966 releases was recorded in New York with Jesse Herring running the session (One of The Roleaks' cuts (if I remember correctly).
  25. Robbk
    I'd also like to know which recording studios he frequented, and if he worked in Philadelphia and New Jersey as well as New York.


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