Isn't the Jr walker "Baby I need you" really a revised "Ame Cherie [[Soul darling") and is it Stevie Wonder on Harmonica??
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Isn't the Jr walker "Baby I need you" really a revised "Ame Cherie [[Soul darling") and is it Stevie Wonder on Harmonica??
Interesting that GK&TP's I Had A Dream was reassigned to the Sups. wonder when this track was done. Says by A&S. Joe Hinton produced the Sup/Top duet version. wonder if this was anticipated as a New Supremes song with Jean
On this post it's saying that Nick & Val wrote I Had A Dream [[Opus 1) - but on YouTube, it's saying Shorty Long & Sylvia Moy wrote it, Nick & Val produced:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yeZRzjGADZE
The Shorty Long "I Had A Dream" is an entirely different song produced by Frank Wilson
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I3Hq9lsM_KA
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He is Mickey Denton [[as stated by "Lucky, Lucky, Me". Mickey came to Motown with Harry Balk, Duke Browner, The Volumes, and The Lollipops, when Balk came to Motown to run Motown's Rare Earth label. They were artists and producer [[Browner) for Balk's Impact and Inferno Records, and were still affiliated with Motown subsidiary Inferno Records, which was half-owned by Balk.
Mickey was a long-Time Detroit singer, who also recorded for Amy, and Palmer Records, and with Balk's group at Big Top, and Balk's own Twirl, and American Arts[[part of World Artists [[where Denton was assigned) labels, as well as one or two other Detroit labels, earlier. You should listen to his "The Other Side of Betty" on Big Top Records, it was a Balk/Duke Browner production recorded in Detroit. It sounds like it could be a Smokey Robinson 1961 production. His version of "Nature Boy" isn't bad. Balk's Soul writers, Barbey "Duke" Browner, and Maron McKenzie wrote several songs for Mickey. So he was more of a Pop/Soul hybrid than Del Shannon was for Balk. They tried to market Shannon as pure Pop.
Listen to "Didn't We", and "Someone For My Own". He really could sing. He reminded me of Tommy Good. Listen to "The Other Side Of Betty", too. Too bad Balk didn't give him better material all those years, to have a national hit. He did do well in the local clubs in The Detroit Metro Area. Not having to take a "day job" during the '60s, with all that great Soul music, and then The British Invasion, was a quite a respectable feat. I envy him that, as I chose the "safer conservative road" getting a "day job" for my first 18 years after graduation from university, instead of trying to make it as a full-time cartoonist. I made it later, but it's always been a struggle, and I often wonder what would have happened if I had had the guts to try.
I think that the reason why we like this selection so much is because Quality Control wanted the "New" sound and not the old Motown sound.
So what's everyone's favorite tracks? And is it just me or does Chris Clark and Kiki Dee sound a little alike?
Yes I agree somewhat..they do.
A lot of good stuff on 69.
Stevie's.
Originals
The GK&TPs.
.don't care for the J5 stuff
Fantastic hearing Ivy doing a vocal of YESTERDAY'S DREAMS, and Frank Wilson doing a demo of the four tops LOOK OUT YOUR WINDOW. Wonder if there aren't many Four Tops songs in the vaults from this point on
So many songs, I'm going to enjoy this!
The tracks are nice enough, but in all honesty I don't think any of them are quite good enough to have been made the A-side of a single.