Happy 75th, Stevie

Arguably the greatest singer/songwriter/multi-instrumentalist/producer of our time.

I have a copy of the marveletts sing and recently got the smash hits of 62 with white labels. However, I realized that even first pressings of this album has the marvelettes sing on the label and not smash hits of 62. does anyone know why this is? Could the marvelettes sing title always haven been planned?

Smokey Robinson accused of sexual assault by ex-housekeepers

Just tuned to ABC News and they mentioned this.
Guess there will be more details about it later..
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https://nypost.com/2025/05/06/entert...mer-employees/

I kwould like to open that thread because in my opinion The Marvelettes treat unfair to use The Andantes. So othwer groups like Martha Reeves and The Vandellas changed the wohle Vandellas with The Andantes. So The Marvelettes were the "pioneer" female group of Motown, they startet as a quintett and reduced to a trio, the trio can´t sang in 2 voices, so they used The Andantes for the higher voices and then together , maybe they used The Andantes the most, but alone lesser, I think Martha & The Vandellas used them more only, replaced The Vandellas totally with The Andantes!

What the others think?

... with quotes from John himself, as well as from some others -

https://www.soulexpress.net/johnedwards_tribute.htm

Best regards
Heikki

It was just announced on Facebook that John died. No other details were given. He joined the Spinners after Phillipe Wynne left.