The Yank

Gladys Knight is still in fine form. Yesterday at the Superbowl - Just noticed NFL blocked the video Sorry !

A few more for the thread - Supremes- "Automatically Sunshine", "Here Comes The Sunrise", "He's My Sunny Boy" Stevie Wonder- "A Place In The Sun" Ray Charles- "You Are My Sunshine" Robert John- "Raindrops, Love And Sunshine" WAR- "L.A. Sunshine" Jakki- "Sun, Sun, Sun" Central Line- "Walking Into Sunshine" Rocker's Revenge- "Walking On Sunshine"

Second version from the group -

Is this the Joy Lovejoy mentioned in the 1st post? Does anyone like this version ??

"LWIAM" was a Best Bet in Cashbox the week of 11/12/66- as was Rose Battiste's "I Miss My Baby"

I was just making sure ! Dusty's "Brand New Me" album was recorded in Philadelphia.

Yes-

I can't really help on this one. There are 5 copies on popsike all of them have destroyed labels.

The delta number for the Little Johnny Hamilton is from Nov./ Dec. 1965. Not sure about the rest of the releases.

One more for the list- Mary Jane#6703- "Out Uh Sight"/ "Turn Back" -

I don't think Pat ever made the national charts, she did have a big hit in Chicago going Top 5 during Christmas week of 1966

Billboard ad from October, 1966 for Pat's single. The Holidays' 45 ended up being "Love's Creeping Up On Me"/ " Never Alone" -

Yes- but how big was the demand? Every radio station in the U.S. didn't start playing records at the same time. "Look.." was a hit in Chicago in December, 1966. Who's to say a few months later a station in Philadelphia or San Francisco didn't start playing "Look...", and a distributor asked for copies to be pressed up? A good example of this is Tommy Neal's "Going To A Happening". The Palmer copy was reviewed in Record World in August ,1967. I've heard the record was a big hit in Pittsburgh and so copies were pressed. The record took off in December, 1967 on the West Coast and the Vault copy came out 4 months later.

It's hard to say exactly when the label change happened- definitely sometime in early '67. The next two releases on the label (Debonaires" "Loving You..." and Jimmy Gilford were on the light blue label). I've only seen the next Debonaires and Pat Lewis' "Warning" on the "red balloon" label. I believe the "red balloon" label "Look.." was reissued due to demand on the new label design.

It might be harder to find on the "red balloons" label but that's a later pressing. If you want the original issue , go with this one -

It wasn't released on U.S. Bell- it did come out on Mercury-

Cashbox reviewed the 45 in May of 1967 -

"Hey Girl" never came out on a U.S. Pye 45 but is on Jimmy's "You Don't Stand A Chance If You Can't Dance " album which is a much better alternative as far as cost goes.