New Motown Subsidary Label Designs

[masterblaster]

What year were the new Tamla, Gordy and Soul labels introduce and what were the first releases on each label?
I have just watched the film 'Dirty Dancing' and noticed the 'new' Gordy label design towards the end of the film. The film is set in 1963 and I'm sure the new label wasn't introduced until the late 60s.

[nsoule]

The "new" label designs were introduced in 1966. The first records with each design are as follows:

Stevie Wonder "A Place In The Sun" Tamla 54139
Martha & The Vandellas "I'm Ready Love" Gordy 7056
Frances Nero "Keep On Loving Me" Soul 35020

They also went back and reissued some earlier records like "Shop Around", "Money", "Do You Love Me", etc. with the new label design.

[snakepit]

I have a photo of the Hitsville Window with a sign saying " New shape for 65".
In fact it is my phone wallpaper

[luckyluckyme]

Lars Nillson at Seabear Studios has mapped it all out quite well.


http://www.seabear.se/Gordy1.html

http://www.seabear.se/Soul.html

http://www.seabear.se/Tamla1.html

http://www.seabear.se/Tamla2.html

http://www.seabear.se/Tamla3.html

[robb_k]

The "new" label designs were introduced in 1966. The first records with each design are as follows:

Stevie Wonder "A Place In The Sun" Tamla 54139
Martha & The Vandellas "I'm Ready Love" Gordy 7056
Frances Nero "Keep On Loving Me" Soul 35020

They also went back and reissued some earlier records like "Shop Around", "Money", "Do You Love Me", etc. with the new label design.
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Yes, but it should be noted that it wasn't a hard and fast changeover, as a few pressing plants around The US who still had la large label stock from before, were allowed to use those old labels, so there were some old labels used for several months after the changeover. I think they may have crept even into 1967.

[snakepit]

19233

hopefully photo is above

[snakepit]

thinking about the above, it might refer to album overs

[mysterysinger]

And I like BSNPUBS for this sort of thing too https://www.bsnpubs.com/motown/motown/motown.html

[lockhartgary]

19232
Yes, but it should be noted that it wasn't a hard and fast changeover, as a few pressing plants around The US who still had la large label stock from before, were allowed to use those old labels, so there were some old labels used for several months after the changeover. I think they may have crept even into 1967.

Yes, I remember seeing Gordy 7082 "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer" on the script label.

[nsoule]

Yes, but it should be noted that it wasn't a hard and fast changeover, as a few pressing plants around The US who still had la large label stock from before, were allowed to use those old labels, so there were some old labels used for several months after the changeover. I think they may have crept even into 1967.

American Record Pressing in Owosso, MI was the only plant that it was a hard and fast changeover, and they were the first to use the new design. You're definitely right though that Monarch, the RCA plants, and Southern Plastics all continued to use the old designs until they ran out of blank labels.

I think the only ARP pressing to have both the old and new label design while it was a current release was The Temptations "Beauty Is Only Skin Deep" on Gordy 7055.

[nevertoolate]

I remember the old labels on both the album cover and album in the 1964 releases.
By 1965 and 1966. The album covers and the inside jackets had the new Gordy and Tamla
labels, but the albums themselves still had the old Gordy and Tamla labels [[the script and
the globe-wheel). My original Shotgun album had the purple and white "SOUL" design on
the album, but the inside cover and the album cover had the new soul design with the spiral.

[motony]

My original 45 of "I'm Ready For Love" is on the original Gordy label design, the pressing plant is Nashville Metra.