Miss Motown Promo single

[booty]

Can anyone shed some light on this "Motown promo"? It was sold on E-bay for over £200 recently, but I for one have never ever heard of this in some 50 odd years of collecting Motown!

[robb_k]

I've never seen it. It has "special release" where the record number would go. It has 3 "songs", or at least 3 tracks. It looks like it cane from 1964 or 1963. I wonder who Miss Motown is [[winner of a contest?)

[booty]

Robb, have you ever heard of a Jack Gibson, who gets a credit on the label?

Track 1 - "About the weather"
Track 2 - "About the record & the DJ"
Track 3 - "Greetings and nonsense"

it is copyright 1964

[carole cucumber]

http://lasvegassun.com/news/2000/feb...-stardom-dies/

https://books.google.com/books?id=lT...gibson&f=false

[carole cucumber]

Could Miss Motown have been Jack's daughter, Jill Gibson [[Bell)?

[motony]

Jack Gibson was a big time record promoter. I don't know if he worked exclusively for Motown.

[144man]

I've never seen it. It has "special release" where the record number would go. It has 3 "songs", or at least 3 tracks. It looks like it cane from 1964 or 1963. I wonder who Miss Motown is [[winner of a contest?)

I don't think there can be any snippets of songs on the disc as there is no publisher on the label.

[milven]

There is - or was- a Miss Motown Pageant. Maybe this was some kind of cross promotion

[carole cucumber]

It appears that the Miss Motown Pageant was first held in 2010

http://www.barefootstudent.com/jobs/...testants_58505

[booty]

I don't think there can be any snippets of songs on the disc as there is no publisher on the label.

Going by the titles I reckon it is a spoken word promotional disc.

[144man]

How much would anyone hear pay for a spoken word promotional disc? I'd pay a tenner for the one above.