Four Tops' Soul Spin album

I wonder if this album is the only Motown album which didn't include any singles.

I am not keen on side 2 of the album but I feel side 1 has a couple of strong performances.

Emily “Cissy” Houston has passed away at age 91 from Alzheimer’s disease.
Rest in Power and Peace and thank you for your contributions to music. Especially for having Whitney, who you’re now reunited with.

Paul Nixon’s query concerning Ric-Tic and Golden World recordings made me check my collection to see what I had. I compared my CD tracks with listings on 45.cat and Discogs and noticed something odd on the latter website.

As well as the Ric-Tic releases, there are two on the MAH’s label. [Mike Alonzo Hanks] both by the Magic Tones, M-1037 and M-1038, which both came out in 1968. I’m not sure why only these two singles are listed under Ric-Tic, other than MAH’s was based in Detroit.

In addition to Ric-Tic and Golden World, did Berry Gordy also acquire MAH’s? Releases after 1968 were on the Westbound Records label.

I know that he also acquired Wingate and J&W Records, as well as Inferno and Impact, but are there others?

Just wondering if anyone on here has a complete set of these 45's and have digitised them - I'm trying to put together a 'complete Ric Tic and Golden World 45's' set [[just for myself) and I'm a few missing so looking for some help to bridge the gaps.

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Finding myself at a loose end at the weekend I turned my attention to some of the nore 'obscure' Motown LP's in my collection that I'd been slow to transfer to digital a few of which fall into the 'Disco' genre in particular the Disc O Tech series of LP's.
I have to be honest and admit that I'd never really paid much attention to the Motown Magic Disco series of the 70's but decided to forge ahead and transfer them. In yet another cross ocean mix up it appears that Volume 1 of the set made it to the UK in it's original US form complete with green cover while Volume 2 in the US LOOKS entirely different to it's UK counterpart. Both feature the same tracks while the covers of Volume 2 are vastly different. The UK opts for a yellow background with a similiar photo whilst the US version changes to a new black drawn artwork cover featuring what looks like a 12 inch record, both countries have dropped the Disc O Tech branding.

In between the two releass UK Motown decided to release a 'Big Hits' kind of LP using the title Disc O Tech - a 13 track collection of tracks from the likes of Yvonne Fair, Temptations, GC Cameron and the Supremes - that LP reverts back to the design of the Motown Magic Disco Machine Volume 1 but uses a pink background. If that were not confusing enough UK Motown liking the theme decides to issue a second volume Motown Disc O Tech Volume 2 with the same variety of tracks from almost the same line up as volume 1 but the cover is wildly different and by the looks of it a similiar volume 3 again with a change of design.
To complicate matters even more when the LP's appear not just across the pond but all over the world the covers and volumes switch around and track lists change dramatically - I think this would cause a serious headache for completists. I cannot seem to find an image for the US #2 .

John Boyega is set to play Otis Redding in a new film telling the story of the soul singer’s decade-long relationship.
Otis & Zelma will see the Star Wars and Attack the Block actor play the tragic star with the Till breakout Danielle Deadwyler playing his wife, Zelma.

The drama will follow the success of Redding, whose career included hits such as [[Sittin’ On) The Dock of the Bay and These Arms of Mine before his death in a 1967 plane crash at the age of 26.
According to Variety, the official description claims the film “celebrates the 10 short years Otis and Zelma had together, and their eternal love story after his passing”. The film comes with the full support of the estate.
After the singer’s death, his widow opened her own booking business, a record store and a nightclub and never remarried. “Never will,” she said to the New York Times in 2022. “I love being Mrs Otis Redding. I’m the only one.”


This month will also see the singer receive a posthumous star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
Otis & Zelma will be directed by Channing Godfrey Peoples, whose breakout drama Miss Juneteenth premiered to acclaim at the Sundance film festival in 2020............

John Boyega to play Otis Redding in new biopic alongside Danielle Deadwyler | John Boyega | The Guardian