Here is the link to our blog news with the details of our research of MOTOWN Tapes found in the Four Seasons Partnership Archives......with several Unreleased Masters....
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Here is the link to our blog news with the details of our research of MOTOWN Tapes found in the Four Seasons Partnership Archives......with several Unreleased Masters....
BREAKING NEWS - 27th April 2020
Speaking to Snapper Records last night I was informed that Bob Gaudio has agreed the LIST we proposed for the forthcoming BOX SET. 780+ tracks with many...
Follow the link in my previous post for full info .....
Casey
The latest on the research stage of the forthcoming Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons Box set including an album full of Unreleased Motown tracks has just been published ....
My Eyes Adored you has less strings overdub and Frankie sings a different closing lyric re 'why he let her go'........this was lined up for release on the Unreleased 1974 album before they left the...
Universal Motown have for 10 years plus said and sadly Bob Gaudio agreed that there were no completed tracks left at Motown. We knew better and researched the Tape Index and the Artists Cards. Of...
Here is our latest blog post which documents the history of how 43 STEREO Mixes of this track were produced at Mowest/Motown between 1972 and 1975 and yet the track was never released in the USA.
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Well it is now 2020....and the 29 16 track P tapes have been transferred to Bob Gaudio and reviewed. How long this took and in how much depth he was able to do this we do not [YET] know but the...
Tape research is currently on-going and library manager Andy Skurow is preparing transfers to Bob Gaudio and Snapper Records for a LEGACY Box set.
More details at our blog and the on-going...
Hmmmmmmm not sure I agree with that..I still believe a Motown Master Nr 60000 indicates a completed 16 track.[records show these mixed to Stereo by Russ Terrana]. Keith has access to the tapes and...
Following the discipline published in this forum by a 1960s sound engineer re DM's[[Duplicate Masters at Detroit) which probably carried over to LA studios the Master Number was allocated at the end...
Thanks for the posts. There are also many tracks that don't have Master numbers and could be just demos but previous VIS reports of the Motown database indicate tracks we have never heard of before...
I think I have this data but can't check.
My list shows 32 unreleased.....21 released. [[Excludes alt versions of 61747,62521 and 62525)
The big question is does a Motown Master Nr indicate a...
I'm researching Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons period atMowest/Motown 1971/74 and need the help of sound engineers who eitherworked at the label or know the recording process from those times.
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