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  1. Robbk
    THAT explains why I didn't know about it. It has some faint characteristics of The Chicago Sound, but not really strong, unlike The Combinations of Atlanta.
  2. Robbk
    What a great find! I lived in Chicago at the time that was out, and never saw it nor heard of it. It definitely sounds like a Chicago recording, but not produced nor arranged by one of the well-known Soul producers. I don't recognise the names on the record.
  3. Robbk
    I've played "Lost and Found" and "Gotta Get Myself Together" back-to-back many times, and the voices sound very very much like the same person. I'd guess that Kenny Carlton is Kenny Carter.
  4. Robbk
    None of the recordings for the sales are still uploaded. I can't find those songs on You-Tube. Can anyone direct me to a soundfile of them. I'm curious to hear them. I passed that record up when it was out, as I was unable to listen to it, and thought it was instrumentals or Pop singing (despite being Pied Piper). Thanks.
  5. Robbk
    Tthought I read that Freeman King (the later actor) sang in the group on those 2 songs. He is not listed above. Was HE in The Creators? Perhaps he was only the songwriter and producer?
  6. Robbk
    Sad news.
  7. Robbk

    BB King Rip

    Robbk commented on Mike's article in News Archives

    Sad to hear. One of my favourites (especially from 1949-55). I saw him live at Dootone's Music Center in South Central L.A. in 1965, in Amsterdam in 1986, and in Kopenhagen in 1990.
  8. Robbk
    My music started in the mid-late 1930s, and lasted to about 1970. Your music started at the beginning of the 1960s and lasted to about 1980.
  9. Robbk
    Whenever I hear a non-Motown release of a Jobete Music song for which I've never heard a Motown version, I try to imagine the sound of a Funk Brothers version. I would have guessed it would be fantastic, and much better. When I finally heard The Kim Weston version, I was disappointed (but still like it better than the Alice Clark (as that version doesn't sound like Motown). I'm still waiting to hear a Motown version of "You Turned My Bitter Into Sweet".
  10. Robbk
    Here's the 12000 series Bold font issue:
  11. Robbk
    I posted the scans on that thread Ady. Do you want me to send you 300 dpi scans?
  12. Robbk
    As I stated, Canadian 45s were generally $1.00 during the sixties. So, during the early '70s they were about $1.25, but this store was a high-volume storer, so they sold many for $1.00. The Supremes' record at $2 was because it is an American issue, AND, it was a 10-year old Oldie at that time. Oldies were often a little more expensive, if hard to get. Imports would be more costly.
  13. Robbk
    Just what I stated. So you can believe it. The 2 for a dollar were slower movers in special bins. The lowest discounted new popular records in discount stores were 69 or 79 cents. The wholesale price was 50 cents. So, selling new records 2 for $1.00 couldn't make ANY money -so it wouldn't be done.
  14. Robbk
    That $1.00 price could have been the original price in 1965, in a popular record store that didn't discount the list price.
  15. Robbk
    The 99¢ -$1.00 price was a standard listed price from about 1965-1972. I left in 1972 (so don't really know how it progressed since then, and didn't buy any retail records in my visits after that, in any case).
  16. Robbk
    45 Records in USA in 1970 were generally $1.00 (99¢, 95¢), sometimes discounted to 85¢ or, in a few cases, 79¢). But, regular retail price was pretty much $1.00 across the country. Same in Canada (where the Canadian Dollar was set at $1.03 of US $).
  17. Robbk
    Yes, that was among the recordings Rod got from me. We had a 7-inch acetate with an American style large hole, which we taped. The acetate shown above is a different one, but, clearly a legitimate Motown acetate from 1965 (given the red typewriter ribbon strokes.
  18. Robbk
    We had planned that song to be on a later "From The Vaults" LP (the 3rd one, If I remember correctly). But, as you all know, we only got one album released, as the sales were zilch, due to no promotion and no push with distributors. The first was out in mid 1979. The 3rd would likely have been released in early 1980. Wasn't it released on a "Cellarful of Motown"?
  19. Robbk
    So, even the vocals for ALL the songs were recorded in Detroit! I'm impressed.
  20. Robbk
    I always thought that Luther Dixon had Popcorn Wylie (with the help of Sonny Sanders) record the background tracks in Detroit for the "Going Back To Detroit" album, but that The Platters had their vocals recorded in New York. Was I misinformed?
  21. Robbk
    Here's my original. I think I got it from John Hillyard in 1969 or 1970. It has Delta numbers 68365 and 68366, which reflect the last week of September 1967, with Nov 17, 1967 (1 and a half months later) stamped on the label (date of distribution?): It has black plastic.
  22. Robbk
    I would guess those were legitimate 70s repressings done by Lou Bedell, and that is why they had the same delta number. I remember some 70s pressings of a Kennard record that had a purple label. In fact, I remember Superbs and Whispers purple represses as well (all done in the '70s).
  23. Robbk
    Here's the badge patch for the last all-nighter held at The Casino in september 1981: It's attached to my skiing jacket I bought in 1973. It's still in good nick!
  24. Robbk
    The Brill Building (1619 Broadway) is on 41st and Broadway, and 1650 Broadway is on 43rd and Broadway. 42nd and Broadway is Times' Square (is it not?). I've been to New York City once in my 68 years (other than having been in Kennedy and La Guardia Airports hundreds of times (but never leaving the transit building)). I know Freetown, Sierra Leone, Amman and Wadi Es Sir, Jordan, Luxor, Egypt, Marrakech, Tanger, Fez and Meknes, Morocco, Kharthoum and Gedaref, Sudan, and Monton in Eccles, Oldham, Salford and Clitheroe all infinitely better.
  25. Robbk
    What a HORRIBLE LP. The only thing even remotely listenable on it is Rita and The Tiaras. I wouldn't buy that just to have the song on a Dore label. Why didn't Dore just press a newer pressing of it when Northern demand started, in the 1970s, like Harthon and so many other small company owners did??? It's nice to get the recording on mint vinyl directly from the master tape, but who wants all those other-genre cuts on a big hunk of plastic, just to have one cut??? This is just a generic rant, as I wouldn't walk 2 feet out of my way to listen to it (which is why I swapped it).


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