Belgium's Marginal Records Discography

[woodward]

As a result of a Motown Forum posting on the unreleased Martha & the Vandellas CD, I decided to do a little research on the Marginal label. I found out that a total of 27 Motown artists releases were made during the period 1994-1998. They were reportedly a limited run of 500 copies each. I never realized that they released so many on Motown artists. I only had the 8 volumes of Rare Tracks from Detroit. The only problem I had with these 8 volumes were the incorrect spelling errors, etc. of some of the artists.

I did decide to make a listing of what was published. I don't know if anyone else has a significant number of these, but I think they are rather scarce since they were released over 18 years ago. Here is what I found on Motown artists.

Marginal
004 Mary Wells Hits and Rarities: Other Side of Mary Wells
017 Velvelettes Velvelettes Meet the Royalettes
024 Supremes Unreleased Tracks: With Love [[From Us to You)
033 Marvelettes Best of the Marvelettes
037 Martha/Vandellas Hits and Rarities
049 Chris Clark Soul Sounds
054 Eddie Holland The Complete Eddie Holland
069 Marv Johnson The Ultimate Collection
070 Earl Van Dyke That Motown Sound [[29 instrumentals)
076 G. Knight/Pips 60's Ultimate Collection
095 Elgins/Monitors The Elgins Meet the Monitors
096 Contours Do You Love Me
121 Brenda Holloway Hits and Rarities
122 Tammi Terrell The Story of Tammi Terrell
123 San Remo G.S. Hungry for Love Anthology
126 Kim Weston Hits and Rarities

Missing Miss
007 Chuck Jackson Chuck Jackson Arrives

MI 001 Miracles Hits and Rarities

BAR 125 Various Artists Rare Tracks from Detroit, Volumes 1 thru 8 inc.

BAR 153 Various Artists Ladies of Detroit, Volume 1


That's it folks. Does anyone have EVERY ONE OF THESE????

[johnny_raven]

I have them all!

[booty]

There was also a set on Kiki Dee & also Barbara McNair.

[booty]

[daviddesper]

I never knew of a Marvelettes collection on Marginal. Could someone post a track list or better yet a scan of the cover?

[longtimefan]

I never knew of a Marvelettes collection on Marginal. Could someone post a track list or better yet a scan of the cover?

Here ya go, DavidDesper!

http://www.discogs.com/Marvelettes-T...elease/5266925

Plus front and back cover art:

[copley]

I have them all too. I think that 99% of the tracks have now been officially released.

[daviddesper]

Thanks. Too much of the early stuff for me. I think they did not hit their stride until Wanda took over most of the vocals. But they could not help it that they were so young.

[copley]

The reason I bought the Marginal Marvelettes was because of one track as below. It remained unreleased on CD until 2009!

I Should've Known Better [[William Stevenson-Henry Cosby-William Robinson) published Jobete

alternate titles: 1 I Should Have Known Better 2 Me And You, Baby

The Marvelettes; recorded Hitsville, completed 13-Aug-64 ; produced by William Stevenson, Henry Cosby

[pressing date unknown] [acetate]; 45 [[M): Jobete
Jan-79; LP [[M): Natural Resources NA4014 From The Vaults
08-May-09; CD [[M): Hip-O Select B0011516-02 Forever: The Complete Motown Albums Volume 1

[woodward]

An interesting question about a lot of these releases? How in the world did someone in Belgium get these songs that were never released from the vaults by Motown? I have never seen an answer to this question. Were they involved in some kind of "payola" like in the very Dick Clark days?

[theboyfromxtown]

Woodward

Anything that was released on those cd's was available to fans......and that is where the answer to your question lies.

Fans were compiling those cds, Marginal was enabling them to be issued on cd.