Motown Extended Play 45's [[EPs)

[woodward]

I was thinking recently about the Motown EPs that were released in the 1960's. So I did a little research in HEAT WAVE by David Bianco to see how extensive the production was for these records. I was surprised to learn that there were 39 issued during the 1960's and only straggler in 1976.

Here is what I uncovered.

Chisa Records - 2 releases
Gordy label - 6 releases
Motown label - 20 releases
Soul label - 4 releases
Tamla label - 7 releases

I find the entire production that was released as EPs intriguing. I have always been under the impression that EPs were issued in a cover format with pictures of the group in packaging similar to albums. I remember from when I worked in a record store in the 1960's that I never ever have seen any of these Motown produced EPs while the singles were a extremely mass produced and bought by the public. I can't say that I have ever seen any of these 39 issues.

Was there something special or were these used for other than commercial sales items? Furthermore I have never seen any pictures of any of these EPs.

Do any forum members have a representative collection of these in their library and could put a picture of one or two on for me to see. Would like to see one or two Supremes. I have never seen any for sale on eBay either.

Let's have a discussion about these. We all might learn something.
Thanks.

[mysterysinger]

I'm not clear which EPs you are referring to here. If it is the 6 track jukebox EPs [[which I think were 33rpm) then there have been several discussions on this forum about these.

Examples [[there have been others if you want to do a search) -

2016 http://soulfuldetroit.com/showthread...hlight=jukebox


2013 http://soulfuldetroit.com/showthread...t=abbey+tavern