Robbk

Wasn't "Rat Race" released on Perfecta or ATAC in the '70s?

Too many great '60s unreleased cuts to choose just one: 1) A Tear from A Woman's Eye - Temptations 2) Suspicion-Originals 3) Crying In The Night-Monitors 4)Baby, Hit and Run-Contours 5) All I Do (Is Think About You)-Tammi Terrell 6)Tears, Nobody and a Smile-Serenaders 7)Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde-Versatones 8)All I Have Left are Memories-Sammy Turner & Serenaders 9)On The Avenue-Jimmy Ruffin 10)Absent Minded Lover-Kim Weston Thatt's just Motown, and I've probably forgotten many others. There are many great Chicago Soul songs that were recorded in the '60s and not released during the vinyl era.

Those with the blue-green colouring and no diamond should be bootlegs. I never saw those in the '60s. I never saw them in USA. I used to go to distributors in Chicago, L.A. and San Francisco. I also traveled, looking for records all across USA and Canada. Surely I'd have seen those if they were legitimate during the '60s..

Mel Carter (of "The Love Test" - wink, wink, nudge, nudge -say no more!) had a long career as an actor in films and TV. Cuba Gooding Jr. a long-time actor. His father being a Soul singer. Adam Wade (perhaps marginal as a Soul singer) was a lng time actor in TV series, and host of a couple TV game shows.

I suspect THIS is the case. I'm sure he appeared on "Swingin' Time", and I think he was on one of the national shows, like "Shivaree" or "Shebang", or maybe one of the syndicated shows like "The Lloyd Thaxton Show" or Jerry Blavat.

Could be the one. The age is right. Matchett is a very unusual name. How many Ernestine Matchetts could there have been that were the correct age, and born in The South?

It should. It was released in 1977, as noted by its "P77" dating. I suspect that it wasn't pressed up by Bobby Robinson, and so, was a bootleg.

I believe that song was recorded in late 1961 or early 1962 for Bobby and Danny Robinson's Fury Records. That album has their Fury cuts.

I had an earlier issue of that list ranging only to mid 1976. Alco was Allied Steel Company.

I lived in L.A. for 9 months of 1969, and I made the regular rounds of Black Community record shops, thrift shops, discount stores, etc. and NEVER saw The Brilliant Korners, DJ issue. I doubt that there was a store stocker pressing. I'd have seen them. I saw just about everything, having friends at California Music (distributors), Sams, Flash, Pat's, Dolphin's of Hollywood, Crain's, Wenzel's Music Town, Ray Avery's, House of Music, etc. There must have been only a box of 25 DJs printed. And, I still would have expected to have seen one of them.

For 45s and EPs I use different walls for different geographical locations. I have a Detroit (w/Toledo) wall with Motown labels on top 5 shelves, then Golden World labels, Then Thelma, then Correc-Tone, then Solid Hitbound, Mike Hanks labels, Robert West labels, Fortune, Carmen Murphy labels, etc. in descending order of their importance to my taste, and order that they fit on the shelves. Within the labels, the records are in numerical order of the catalogue numbers. EPs after the 45s. Same goes for the Chicago(w/Milwaukee,St. Louis,Indianapolis) wall, with Chess/Checker/Argo/Cadet,Tuff/Parrot/Satellite related labels, VJ/Falcon/Abner/Tollie, Chance etc., Oneder-Ful/Mar-V-Lus/M-Pac, United/States, USA, Don Talty labels, Jack Daniels labels, and the rest. Also an L.A. San Francisco Bay Area, San Diego (so California wall) with Modern/Kent/RPM/Flair/Crown, Specialty, Money/Cash/Recorded in Hollywood/Hollywood/Lucky etc., Arvee,Ebb, SAR/Derby & related, Mira/Mirwood, Bobby Sanders labels, GNP Chreschendo, Era/Dore, Pacific Jazz/World Pacific, Blue Note, Dot, Flip, and the rest of L.A. and Music City, Fantasy/Galaxy and all the SF labels. I also have my biggest wall with multi-city Majors like Columbia labels(Okeh/Epic), Capitol(, Mercury(Smash/Philips/Blue Rock/Fontana/MRC/Wing/Ensign etc), Decca/Brunswick/Coral etc., RCA(Vik/Groove) etc., ABC & Dist. Warner Bros.(Loma, United Artists(Liberty/Imperial etc.) & Dist., Universal/MCA (Uni/ReVue/Kapp/Congress & related), I have one for Atlantic(ATCO & related), and a NY/NJ wall with Scepter-Wand & dist., Jubilee/Josie(Jay-Gee Dist), Bell/Amy/Mala & Dist., London & Dist., Bobby & Danny Robinson labels, Old Town & related, Prestige, Savoy, Apollo, Joe Davis labels, Sue and Dist., Colpix/Dimension, Daisy/Tiger/Red Bird/Blue Cat, Lenox, and The Rest. I have an Ohio/East Coast wall with Pennsylvania/Ohio/D.C./Baltimore,Boston,Louisville), dominated by King (King/Federal/De Luxe/Bethlehem & King Dist. labels), Way Out & related, Dominated by Philadelphia (Jamie/Guyden, Gotham & G&H - related labels, Cameo-Parkway, Swan, etc. Lastly, a smaller "Catch All" wall for Southern and non-California Western labels. UK, and European and US records of the year (usually about 2,000) are in my European abodes. Canadian records are with my US. My LPs are divided between US and Europe. They are also filed by City or region of label location. I do not have any list of what I have, on paper or computer file. I'm too old to start one now. I'd never finish it. If I manage to live another 20 years (to 90), I could potentially finish one. But, I'll probably have to work for a living until I can't physically work. As I'm a writer and artist, that point would be the point where I couldn't handle the work to make the list. I can't afford to hire someone to make the list. If I could afford THAT, I could afford to take enough time off work to list my records!

I have seen hundreds of both the Soulville and the Josie. It was a fairly common record. It got a fair amount of play on WVON. I NEVER saw it on Musicor. I suspect that is some sort of error. The odds are that it IS an error. But, let's not forget the situation with the UK Darrell Banks, in which the original pick up label was dropped before the official first pressing, and the 2nd pick up label put it out.

I believe that they released A Capella versions of the originals.

Tac-Ful (e.g. "Full of Tackles) was founded by US Footballers, Roosevelt Grier and a couple of his New York Giant or L.A. Rams teammates. Jim Brown started a label in Cleveland.

I'll try to remember to post some when I get back to my main 45s. Right now I'm in Muenchen, where I have mainly LPs.

Maybe his son was named "Drew"?

DoDe & DoDeRe, Prince(Prince Ella),GJM, Marton(I believe one of the 2 owners was named Martin), Stephanye (after Gene Redd Jr.'s daughter). Sylvia (Al Sears' wife, girlfriend or daughter?)Seroc (Al Sears),

Upon seeing a scan of it, I now remember having seeing that Marc label, but not till about 1970.

Sorry. I didn't know about a Marc label from Chicago. But, Center Stage didn't exist when Eddie Sull's Renee record was released. I lived in Chicago full-time until 1966, and only part-time from Fall 1966 through 1970, and DIDN'T know the Marc label existed. Therefore, I conclude, the Eddie Sull record was issued some time from 1969 or later. The Marc issue may be possible to date from pressing plant codes. Can someone post scans of it and tell us what is engraved, scratched and/or stamped in the runout?

B & G, Belinda, Burnie's (Burnie Peacock), Bea & Baby, Big Mack(Ed McCoy), Arvee(Richard Vaughn), Aardell/R-Dell(Bob Ross+), Gallo (Bob Gallo), Fabor(Fabor Robison), Leedon & Lee Gordon Records(Lee Gordon), Candix(Robert Dix and William Canaday Silva), Bea & Baby(Narvel "Cadillac Baby" Eatmon and his wife, Bea), Sims(Russell Sims), Ric & Ron Records (named after Joe Ruffino's 2 sons), J-V (reverse of VJ-Jimmy Bracken and Vivian Carter), Jerden (Jerry Dennon), Khoury's (George Khoury), MSK (Owners of Dearborn Records and a Juke Box distributorship: Martin and Snyder, along with Ed Kaplan (of Kool Kat, and other Detroit labels),

I'd guess Renee was first. Marc should have been later in time. It operated later than Renee, and the music publisher was Renee's in-house publisher, Leo Austell's Lamaja Music. Marc, located in L.A., must have leased the master. Both Eddie Sullivan and Leo Austell (and Renee Records) were in Chicago. The lease may have been to get the record distribution on The West Coast, where Renee had none, as far as I know (at least for Eddie Sullivan's release).

Good job!

Mutt & Jeff (Joe Jefferson +), MurCo, Heidi, JJ (Little Joe Cook +) Joda (Johnny Nash), Jameco(James Hendrix), HBR (Joe Hanna and Bill Barbera), Mas-Tok and Cha-Tok (Charles Stokes), Mack IV (Jimmy McEachin), Maurci, Mikim(Mickey Stevenson & Kim Weston), Tou-Sea(Alan Toussaint+), Trudel, Vando (Van McCoy+), Villa (Pancho Villa), Virtue (Frank Virtue), Redd, Red Coach and Redd Coach(Gene Redd Jr.), Roker(Wally Roker, Retta's and O'Retta, Yan G, Yancy (Yancy Millsap), ParLo, Leo, Maxx(Larry Maxwell), GreGar, Eskee, Gloria, Garrison, Calla(Nate McCalla), Co & Ce, DayCo, Bunky(Bill "Bunky" Sheppard (I'm pleased to have had as a next door neighbour of ours (when Airwave was sandwiched between him and Mickey Stevenson in The Hollyood and Vine Building))!

Zell's (Zell Sanders), SAMO(Sam Motley), Teri De, Wally, Glo-Whiz(Gloria Taylor/Whiz Whisenhunt), Juggy (Juggy Murray), Rojac, Ju-Par, Jomar, Jocida and Jomada (Johnny Nash+), Deesu, Sansu, Crewe (Bob Crewe), Burt (Ernest Burt), RayBer(Raynoma Liles Gordy and Berry Gordy), Renee (probably a daughter, wife or girlfriend of the owner (Leo Austell?), Paula? SBK (Sepe, Krasnow & Brooks), SVR, RanDee and MarKie (owner's 2 sons)

So, Popcorn named the label after only one daughter, named "Pameline"? Did he have 3, 2 or, just 1 daughter?