The Yank

Some Mar-V -Lus 45's have this for a copyright date ...

That was how the U.S. Philips label looked in the 70's. It was used for reissues and new releases. Here's another one...

The song is "For The Love Of Mike" by Patrice Holloway. It was recorded in February, 1965 and was unreleased. It's available on "This Is Northern Soul Volume 2" (Debutante) or "Love And Desire- The Patrice Holloway Anthology" (Ace / Kent). I don't think it was released legitimately on vinyl.

Another strange thing is that on the blue label copy, the publisher is now Sherlyn which is associated with the T.K. group of labels (Cat, Drive, Alston etc. etc.)

It's hard to say. Less than a month ago , a copy with no cover in vg+ / vg++ went for $59.

A copy with a near mint cover and vg+ disc went for $32 a few weeks ago.

Doni Burdick was born Don Dominguez. I'm guessing he is Hispanic or part Hispanic.

"(True Love Is) In The Heart" was unreleased until it appeared on the "Kent 30 - Best Of Northern Soul " CD in 2012.

It was probably due to marketing- when the album was first released in 1962, the title was a good selling point. As the years went on, the title dated the album.

Monica's single "It's The Real Thing" was written by "M Higgins. A. Brown". The A. Brown is most likely Alex Brown but the M. Higgins could be either Monk or Monica Higgins. The song was published by Special Agent Music/ East Memphis. Monk Higgins did the arrangements for the song.

He also co-wrote one of the biggest Northern songs of all time- "You Didn't Say A Word" by Yvonne Baker.

Sharon Tandy also released "Love Makes The World Go Round" on Mercury U.K.

The TY5-56957 is the phone number. In the 60's and backwards, the instead of saying the phone number is 895-6957 the operator would say something like "Tyson5-6957". Not sure when the phone company stopped doing this. Not sure why they did this in the first place either.

The seller describes "At My Front Door" as an "original U.S. pressing on red vinyl " and someone paid over $5700 for it- I would hope it's an original. I've never seen an "Up On The Mountain" on red vinyl but it's listed as existing in this format.

I think you're a little early with the cutoff for Vee Jay and colored vinyl. A copy of "At My Front Door" (1955) on red vinyl is on collector's frenzy. I've seen "Up On The Mountain" by the Magnificents (1956) listed in price guides as being available red vinyl.

One sold for $43 USD about about a year ago. I think the seller's price is wishful thinking.

Not sure about the Hestor, but according to one price guide on the Mikki Farrow - the label is a lighter blue and has a "poorly scratched "LJ" and "tUS" and the original matrix info.

The Astra label from Pittsburgh was a mostly reissue label. There was an Astra label from Detroit also.

A very good + copy sold for $442 USD last July.

Buffalo Springfield never recorded for Motown. Neil Young was part of the Mynah Birds who recorded an unreleased single for V.I.P. . After the group dissolved, Neil went to California and started Buffalo Springfield.

The candy Tootsie Rolls were popular then and are still popular now.

Thanks for posting the link- I really liked the article.

According to Keith Rylatt's "Groovesville U.S.A", the label was owned by Tony Ewing. I have 2 singles on Chex (#1007 and #1010) both written by a W. Ewing that use the same stamper with "D. J. Copies Not For Sale" in the same spot as the Poptone release. If you check on Collector's Frenzy, quite a few copies have shown up over the years.

$5324 USD !