The Yank

The liner notes for "Phil Spector- Back To Mono" list this being made in June 1965. So I guess we know the record was made in June.

By the time "A Long Way..." was made (June 1965), Darlene already 5 solo singles released, 6 if you count Philles #123- "Stumble And Fall"/ "He's A Quiet Guy". That 45 was withdrawn and the catalog # was used for the Ronettes' "Walkin' In The Rain".

This looks like every U.S. copy of "Shotgun" you've ever seen until you notice the title is "SHOT GUN" instead of "SHOTGUN" and that the group is listed as Jr. Walker & "all the stars" .

Here's the U.S. release of "A Package Of 16 Big Hits" before they changed to the more familiar "titles in boxes" format .

It was an older Sister that got me involved with Motown. The 1st 45 I heard was "You Beat Me To The Punch" by Mary Wells. It got quiet until late 1964 and then BOOM! She had the Supremes' "Where Did Our Love Go" album, "Baby I Need Your Lovin" by the Four Tops, "My Girl" by the Temptations, "Nowhere To Run" by Martha and the Vandellas, "Ask The Lonely" by the Four Tops, "I Can't Help Myself" by the Four Tops and on and on from there. The 1st record I ever bought was "Ain't That Peculiar" by Marvin Gaye which I still like to this day. For my second 45 I took a bad turn and bought "Bus Stop" by the Hollies. Still don't know what I was thinking !!

Thanks for posting !

The creation of 45 rpm singles really had nothing to do with jukeboxes. RCA came up with the format to counter Columbia's 33 1/3 rpm format. The 1st 45's came out in March of 1949 - the 1st 45 jukebox ( the Seeburg M100B) came out about a year later. The 1st 45 players came with a changer so you could stack the records on top of each other. The engineers found that the records were getting damaged when dropped.To reduce the stress and friction, they came up with the larger hole. A lot of the 33 1/3 singles were usually in stereo and were made for jukeboxes. In 1961 RCA released singles in both 45 rpm and 33 1/3 format and were eventually going to phase out 45's. The idea was a disaster and in 1962, the 33 1/3 format was discontinued. Finally, I don't know why Sam made two versions of "Sugar Dumplin' ".

The Tops recorded "...Last Train..." as album filler. Believe it or not, that same album ("Reach Out") has another Monkees song on it- "I'm A Believer".

Try amazon- lots on there- didn't see a whole set though. You might want to get an all formats dvd player if you don't have one already. Just checked e-bay usa - over 60 on there including the 9 disc dvd set.

Did any Motown artist record a version of Tamiko's "Don't Laugh If I Cry At Your Party" ?

I guess e-bay will list just about anything.

It was probably pressed at another pressing plant. I don't know why this would have been booted.

I've got this on the white label with no "promotional copy not for sale..." etc. The dead wax has an ARP stamp, BRS and M-603-A for the "Good Time" side .

Hi Lorraine, Hope you enjoy seeing Mr. Barrowman as much as your first Johnny Mathis concert! Don't go silent on us though- let us know how it went .

I've seen "Baby Please Don"t Go" by Jo Ann Henderson on a Phono Graph 78 but I think that's more R & B or Popcorn than Soul.

The Supremes also did the song on their "Supremes A Go Go" album. I'm not sure if I could narrow down my choices to 10 Motown songs let alone one!

I think he borrowed the line from Ray Bryant's "The Madison"- "Give me a big strong line- it's Madison Time...."

Michael Bolton's version of "Reach Out I'll Be There" is unbelievably bad !

I like them both a lot but the J.J. Barnes version has the edge over Darrell's .

Maybe the idea was for the Record Store clerk to detach the corner and it would be easier to know what was selling? 90% of the time I see these sleeves- a) the corner is still attached and b) there is no info filled out on them.

Columbia also had the detachable corner on their 50's sleeves.

That's a mid 1950's sleeve from Capitol.

Final prices : Mel Britt- $3550 Del-Larks- $10,999 WOW !

Fuller Brothers- "Time's A Wasting " ?

There was the U.K. label which was around during the early 70's.