The Yank

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.

Imagine that .

There is a Detroit version by Steve Mancha (aka Clyde Wilson) on Wheelsville .

Why does the "F. Wilson Jr." credit have to refer to the Frank "DILY(IID)" Wilson? There was another Frank Wilson who was involved in the L.A. music scene in the 60's along with his brother Vance. He had some releases on Revue as Frankie Vance ( probably to avoid confusion with the other Frank Wilson). Also the F could stand for Fred, Ferdinand or even Fabio for all we know.

As far as I know it's only available on the "A Cellar Full Of Motown" Volume Two CD.

I don't think they ever "moved" to Chicago. I believe they had a distribution or company branch in Chicago but I would alomost swear they were always based in Cincinnati

Don't worry about it. Thought I'd forgot something.