Robbk

My father's family came from Den Haag. The woman who was the model for De Visservrouw (famous metal statue on the beach at Scheveningen) was my great aunt, by marriage. I reside there part of each year (more than anywhere else-I also spend time in Denmark, Germany, Canada and USA). I work for Sanoma Uitgevers, bv. (Dutch Disney publications), as well as Danish and Swedish Disney Pub. (Egmont Serieforleget), and German Disney Pub. (Ehapa Verlag). I have worked for Dutch Disney since 1984. I lived in Den Haag (Archipelbuurt) from 1986-2004, and a village in Nord Holland since. Spreek je goed Hollands dan?

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It really sounds like a super clean recording, unlike the "noisier" sounding Mercury store stocker.

Good to learn that Tom is still with us.

Theoretically, you could purchase the words and music from the music publishing company. Despite Florence Greenberg being deceased, someone owns Flomar Music, as its rights have still been renewed with BMI up to today. The main business of music publishing was originally to sell sheet music with lyrics to people who wanted to play and sing it for recreation. Originally, this song was published by Barry Despenza, but, he sold half the publishing rights to Flomar, in the Wand pressing and distribution deal. And, i think that only Flomar has been renewing the rights for the past many years. So, they probably own full rights now.

This recording is pretty muddy, too. I have it on both labels, and it is tough to hear about half the words. And the lead singer has good diction, and she is singing in Standard American English, NOT Ebonics! (which wouldn't have been a problem for me, as I grew up (more or less) in The Chicago Ghetto), but may have otherwise been a problem for a British listener. The other factor is that there are not very many different words used in this song. I realise now, that I've been listening to it for just about 50 years, without knowing about half the words. But, then, I've always admitted that I've never cared about words in songs, only the overall sound. It doesn't matter, in this case, as the gist of this song is clear, - the young lady doesn't want her lover to leave her.

I lived in L.A. from 1966-72. I've seen hundreds of the gold and only a much smaller amount of the orange (a ratio of about 5 to 1). I don't really know which came first, but I didn't see the orange until a year or 2 after having seen the gold. I got the impression that the orange was a 2nd pressing, rather than a concurrent pressing plant difference (perhaps one or 2 years later).

Interesting that the pressing plant, that pressed the DJ with the new label design, also added the recording master number to the label.

So the one pressing plant using the old design for 1024-1026, after the other plants had the new label design for 1024-1026 was correct. The new style started at 1024, and the old style ended with 1026.

I guess none of the French and Belgian shaggers who also look in on this forum have it or a scanner, eh?

Why is that unlikely? I bought it when the record was released.

Even back in the late '60s I saw a lot more white DJs, at a rate of about 4 to 1.

If you are referring to Musicor 1025, "That Same Old Song"/"Where Have You Been", I have a white DJ of it. I've E-mailed you 300 dpi scans.

No. There were several Sonny Dayes. I believe that the one on Ring-O was an East Coaster.

I would say that The passions' is a LOT rarer, as The Amazers was a minor hit, and The Passions never charted or got any substantial radio play.

I wouldn't think so. It was distributed nationally with big pressing volumes, and it was a minor Soul hit in Chicago, and probably several other cities.

That was a very common record with several different regional pressing plant press runs. I can't imagine why anyone would boot it.

That's a dead rare record. Aren't there only 2 copies known on The NS scene? I was living in Chicago when it was released, and I never saw it. I was scrounging through literally millions of 45s there from1959-mid 1972. I would guess there are only a handful in existence. I've seen scores of The Kittens, but never seen The Emeralds. I'd bet that Even Ruth Moore and Bob Lee didn't have any copies.

I don\t think that Canadian Diamond came in Diamond company sleeves. I don't remember if Compo had their own distributor sleeves, like Quality and the Majors did.

Wasn't his name spelt: "Morris" - not "Maurice"?

Motown DIDN'T succeed in marketing Gospel, nor Jazz, and had only limited success with 1959-63 R&B. They were successful in marketing Pop and Soul Music to teens, young adults and middle-aged people in both The Black Community and the general US population, and various "foreign" populations, around The World. So, are we just differing over semantics?

Bobby Bland should have sued Davis for stealing his "Soul" and his identity! Actually, I think this is really Bobby, moonlighting.