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Joshie Armstead and Mel Collins sent their Chicago artists to ex-Motowner and Detroit producer, Mike Terry:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sk0wIiLPVTQ
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Attachment 15090
Joshie Armstead and Mel Collins sent their Chicago artists to ex-Motowner and Detroit producer, Mike Terry:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sk0wIiLPVTQ
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Sidney Barnes teamed with J.J. Jackson to write Motownish songs together when his former full-time Motown writing partner, George Kerr, started his own label. The wrote for Mary Wells, among others, like this one:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jACeW01k_tc
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Here's Detroit's Dynamics singing a Detroit song they wrote, but recorded in Memphis:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vd5cpt05qPc
Robb, now that's interesting to me! I put up a post recently on Maurice Jackson but little response. In fact you were the only person to respond. I am surprised to learn from your post he had his own label and issued the Monique recording, created in Detroit, even though he is the master of the Chicago sound....
https://soulfuldetroit.com/showthrea...e-Independents
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And, despite those accolades, I have just barely scratched the surface. I have hardly posted any of the 2 biggest sources: Ed Wingate's Golden World/Ric Tic/Wingate Records, and Don Davis' and LeBaron Taylor's Solid Hitbound Productions [[Revilot/Groovesville/Solid Hit Records, as well as Wilbur Golden's Correc-Tone/SonBert Records, Mike Hanks' labels, and Popcorn Wylie/Tony Hester Productions.
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You should like This Popcorn Wylie/Tony Hester song:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3v2X9DUpxgY
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Here's another Popcorn Wylie production, for Wilbur Golden's Correc-Tone Records, written by ex-Motowner Wylie and Motown's secretary Janie Bradford [[under the pen name: Nikki Todd):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G3yk-LIBl0g
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Here are The Debonairs, an unheralded Detroit girls group who recorded for Ed Wingate's Golden World, and Don Davis' Solid Hitbound Productions:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qEPa9Vi7auc
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Here's Barbara Jean and The Lyrics from Johnnie Mae Matthews' Big Hit Records, working with Ernest Burt's Magic City Records:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QbgdbCPwDcY
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Here's another Terri Bryant Don Davis production:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X-XvtMercKI
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Here's Monique singing to the other Dave Hamilton Detroit Funk Brothers track that Maurice Jackson somehow got ahold of:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pNz_MflNA00
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Here's another Barrett Strong-written "Motownish" song sung by The Artistics, recorded in Chicago:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hNOYri7Aapo
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Here's another Parliaments from Golden World:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBgabzr25Kw
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Here's another Big Hit Production by Cynthia & The Imaginary 3 [[formerly The Imaginations), who recorded previously for Magic City and Blue Rock Records:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ef04z-AldPA
Attachment 15104Another Parliaments:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fIlT0r7tD_0
This one certainly qualifies:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=daxiMb0rITA
Does anyone know berry gordy or Motown in general felt about these songs?
We’re they thinking “imitation is the sincerest form of flattery”?
Or “they’re stealing our sound!”?
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Here's another great Tobi Lark song produced by Joe Hunter and Fred Brown. Sorry for the poor sound quality. All the good ones have been removed:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m-TBZ3Ig-Bg
Spencer Davis Group - Keep on Running
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kamXvqoL_JA
The reason why-deon jackson.
Just wow, Robb_k. This has been very enlightening for me. I think I’m going to make a playlist just from your posts here! Thanks for bringing all these “lost” tunes forward. Wow.
Three from Gamble - Huff on Neptune
We're Only Human - Bunny Sigler & Cindy Scott
Sounds like Marvin & Tammi's "Your Precious Love"
Conquer The World Together - Bunny & Cindy
Sounds Like Marvin & Tammi's "Ain't Nothing Like the Real Thing"
Great Big Liar - Bunny Sigler
Pushing it I know, but if you take away the Philly strings and if the female backing singers were less strident, it would sound like Marvin Gaye singing to the band track of the Temptations' "Runaway Child Running Wild".
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Here's another outstanding Harry Balk Volumes' cut:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JkNPXqRy5hE
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Here's another Motown-sounding Mary Wells:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wSQoPU4AqZw
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Here's another of Ed Wingate's Golden World gems:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ZiNVj_SZUE
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Here's another of Ed Wingate's Ric Tic gems from former and future Motowner, Freddie Gorman [[who also recorded for my record label):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MYc8MkacTUs
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Here's one heavily related to Soulful Detroit Forum, produced by Ralph's friend, Fred Saxon, and recorded in his studio, Arranged by Dennis Coffey's friend and work partner, Mike Theodore, and engineered by Bob Ohlsson's colleague, Milan Bogden:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N8adXuPH3RU
Attachment 15118
Here's a Chicago artist sent to Mike Terry, in Detroit:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ce5f7GHE4zE
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From Frank Brown's Valtone Records out of Detroit-The Fabulous Apollos:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-qL5nHL2uAo
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Another great Ollie McLaughlin production, arranged by Mike Terry, and written by fabulous songwriter, Sharon McMahon-Deon Jackson's "I Can't Go On":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_fvchcnESDQ
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Produced by Marv Johnson, and written by him and Smokey, a Jobete song never recorded by a Motown artist - Johnson took it to competitor, Ed Wingate:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hW49dUNBSKY
Attachment 15122After being pushed out of ex-wife, Mary Wells' life, Herman Griffen brought his Cincinnati lady friend and her group , The Charmaines to Detroit to record:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vRcMAOIAczQ
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Another from J.J. Barnes:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oa5NDbBxur0
Attachment 15124
The original [[and best version) of "Gino Is A Coward" - "I'm A Coward" from 1962 Produced by Ex-Motowners, Robert Bateman and Sonny Sanders for Wilbur Golden's Correc-Tone Records:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LmHBqMcHkWo
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Ex-Motowner, Bob Hamilton, along with other ex-Motowners, Don Juan Mancha and Freddie Gorman, produced The Adorables, who also sang some backgrounds at Motown. The Caucasian ladies shown in the photo are the wrong group. These Adorables were an African-American group from Detroit:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w12FKpAueFE
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Ex-Motowner Robert Bateman produced Detroiter, Fred Bridges in early 1962 for Correc-Tone Records. Ex-Motowners, Sonny Sanders and Popcorn Wylie were involved, and The Funk Brothers played on it. It sounds like typical early 1962 Motown:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I1zp2cnK960
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Another Joe Hunter/Fred Brown J.J. Barnes cut, co-written by ex-Motowner, Dave Hamilton, and backed by The moonlighting Vandellas:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RqH3RywEGlU
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Here's a strange combination of New Yorkers with only one small connection to Motown-arranger Richard Tee, who was the main arranger and house band leader at Jobete Music's New York office, working with producers Richard Ghottehrer of New York Girl's Group fame, and Seymour Stein of Sire Records, and great Screen Gems-Columbia, Brill Building songwriter Doris Willingham:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QsL4UWaT0jI