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The Shirley Lawson 45 was released in the US on Backbeat.
Unfortunately, Duke / Peacock / Backbeat put little or no background info on their 45 releases, so no producer / arranger details are shown...

Is much known about Fern Bledsoe's time @ Motown ... when it started & ended ?
I know she started out in a group with Martha Reeves around 1960, Martha quit the group before it changed it's name to...

Spelt George's surname wrong in the thread title ... just one N ...

It must have been confusing at times in the late 60's with George Bohanon leading the Motortown Review Band and Hamilton Bohannon leading Stevie Wonder's live band. Which band was on duty when Stevie...

I know a bit about the chain. Flourishing in the 70's, they expanded and opened new stores all over. The Pittsburgh one seemed to be the local 'go to' store for live show tickets as they sold them...

Can't agree. The group was in turmoil when he joined. They weren't doing many live shows; Eddie was gone; Paul was on his way out; Otis injured himself & missed shows ...
all in all, it must have...

Went to the show Friday night & along with everyone else there [[it was packed) really enjoyed myself.
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WOW, Otis must be getting more mellow in his old age ...

She's added a new gig to her upcoming shows ... IN CHICAGO ... 21364

Just days before he quit the group, Eddie fronting them up on the Ed Sullivan show [[31st Jan 71) ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dvhwFAuvLwc

The 'classic' sound of the Tempts was almost 100% based around David & Eddie's lead vocal work ... so I can fully understand the group's fans being totally pissed off in 1971 with both exceptional...

In summer 1971 they were asking ARE THE TEMPTATIONS DEAD ...
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The Temptations played Pittsburgh Civic Arena, Pittsburgh on February 5th -- was that Eddie's last show as a member of the group ?
The group's next [[known) gigs were 21st to 29th May @ Twin...

Her NS gig in the UK ...
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The shows at the Carter Baron were a 7 day booking, the group performing each night. The LA Forum gig was 3 weeks after their Carter Baron stint had commenced. So Ricky can't have been sacked after...

What were Raynard's biggest successes / best song compositions during his Motown period ?
He wrote some real corkers at Chess [[Rescue Me, Higher & Higher, Because I Love You, You Got Me Baby, In...

I have Otis's book here somewhere but it's not to hand.
SO, can someone tell me if Otis deals with his time of absence from the group in 1971. When did it begin & end ?
If Otis wasn't performing...

Coming to the UK for live gigs in early May & late June ...
Cheltenham + London in early May ...
Blackpool NS event in late June.
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I do agree that some 'remixes' / remakes can be awful.
When Marvin Gaye's original 60's version of "Lucky Lucky Me" was given the remix treatment, most of the 'new' versions were far inferior to the...

Surely, if the people in the act [[singer / group) involved are still alive, it's easier / cheaper to get them to do an actual live show.

The haul is 30 cassette tapes, said to contain some 66 demos of new songs.
Most are in an 'unfinished' state, hence the mention of ace remixers such as Mark Ronson.

A trawl through some of his possessions, left in Belgium when "Sexual Healing" was released, has unearthed a case full of tapes of previously unknown recordings made over there by Marvin.
A local...

That's coz it was a show presented by 2 old PIRATE RADIO DJ's & was about 1960's UK Pirate Radio stns [[based on ships so as to be 'offshore' & therefore not illegal). It was the pirate stns playing...

UK TV is running a news piece this morning about AI being used to digitally capture pop [[soul) acts performing in their prime. This is then stored & brought out for VIRTUAL TOURS in future times....

Here in the UK, we didn't have very many 'locally based' soul stars. So, we never rated any singers / groups on how long it had been since their last US chart hit [[most never even got close to...