Motown.. the move from Detroit to LA.

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Our good friend Robb has detailed previously how many LA tunes ended up on small LA labels....I'm sure he'll update if he reads this thread. [[I think, simply put, Motown had options on the tracks, but if not taken up, they reverted to the LA staffers)

That's it, exactly. Almost all Jobete Music published songs that weren't just remakes of a Motown-released hit, were songs written by producer/writers working in the Jobete Music L.A. office [[1963-66) and New York office [[1963-64), Those songs were sold to Jobete Music, and published by them. Motown Record Corp. Had the first option on recording artists singing them, and releasing those recordings on their various record labels. If a certain amount of time passed [[possibly 6 months?) and they hadn't scheduled a release on the given song, the original producers then had the option to record it by one of their own artists and release it [[either on a label of their own, or to lease the songs to some other label for release). That is how so many Jobete songs, with no Motown label releases, appeared on small L.A. labels like Power, Joker, Magnum, Dee Gee, Champion and small New York labels like Marton and Maltese, and national labels such as WB, RCA, Modern, and Tangerine.

Songs written by these contracted producer's writing staffs, while working for Jobete Music, but were "rejected" by them [[e.g. not bought/paid for) were then, therefore, published by the following private publishing companies owned by the producers:

Finesse Music-Hal Davis/Marc Gordon
Jan Cris Music-Herman Griffith/Vince Love/Freeman King [[Joker Records)
Power Music-Frank Wilson
Equinox Music-Ed Cobb
Wright Music-Charles Wright
House of Fortune Music-John Marascalco
Par-Lar/Parlar/Parlor Music-George Clinton
Maltese Music-George Kerr/Don McLeod
ElSid Music-Sidney Barnes
Zira Music-George Kerr
Stephanye Music-Gene Redd Jr.