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booty
08-20-2015, 05:56 AM
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Can anyone shed some light on this "Motown promo"? It was sold on E-bay for over £200 recently, but I for one have never ever heard of this in some 50 odd years of collecting Motown!
robb_k
08-20-2015, 06:29 AM
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I've never seen it. It has "special release" where the record number would go. It has 3 "songs", or at least 3 tracks. It looks like it cane from 1964 or 1963. I wonder who Miss Motown is [[winner of a contest?)
booty
08-20-2015, 07:47 AM
Robb, have you ever heard of a Jack Gibson, who gets a credit on the label?

Track 1 - "About the weather"
Track 2 - "About the record & the DJ"
Track 3 - "Greetings and nonsense"

it is copyright 1964
carole cucumber
08-20-2015, 08:27 AM
http://lasvegassun.com/news/2000/feb/01/pioneer-dj-gibson-who-helped-many-to-stardom-dies/

https://books.google.com/books?id=lTgDAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA33&lpg=PA33&dq=disc+jockey+jack+gibson&source=bl&ots=zyT-wQ1K2Y&sig=NyaB3etPuHGD737YNQXPdP1vcPU&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0CDUQ6AEwA2oVChMIw9SAsNO3xwIVyVk-Ch0SuQeW#v=onepage&q=disc%20jockey%20jack%20gibson&f=false
carole cucumber
08-20-2015, 08:34 AM
Could Miss Motown have been Jack's daughter, Jill Gibson [[Bell)?
motony
08-20-2015, 02:47 PM
Jack Gibson was a big time record promoter. I don't know if he worked exclusively for Motown.
144man
08-21-2015, 07:58 AM
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I've never seen it. It has "special release" where the record number would go. It has 3 "songs", or at least 3 tracks. It looks like it cane from 1964 or 1963. I wonder who Miss Motown is [[winner of a contest?)

I don't think there can be any snippets of songs on the disc as there is no publisher on the label.
milven
08-21-2015, 08:26 AM
There is - or was- a Miss Motown Pageant. Maybe this was some kind of cross promotion
carole cucumber
08-21-2015, 09:05 AM
It appears that the Miss Motown Pageant was first held in 2010

http://www.barefootstudent.com/jobs/opportunity/miss_motown_pageant_is_now_accepting_applications_ for_contestants_58505
booty
08-21-2015, 11:12 AM
I don't think there can be any snippets of songs on the disc as there is no publisher on the label.

Going by the titles I reckon it is a spoken word promotional disc.
144man
08-21-2015, 12:29 PM
How much would anyone hear pay for a spoken word promotional disc? I'd pay a tenner for the one above.