Was Jackey's lone Revilot single, "I Need My Baby" actually for sale in record shops in mid 1967? Did it get any airplay even in Detroit? It certainly didn't in any other parts of the country. I never saw it until in the hands of a couple Brits after 1980. It was never played on WVON in Chicago, KGFJ in L.A., and KDIA in Oakland. I never saw it in a shop [[and I not only perused the bargain bins and new releases in all the Soul shops in all the big cities in USA, and also drove to Detroit one Saturday a month and looked in the bargain bins of record shops, and searched thrift stores, junk shops and discount stores' sales.
I'd like to hear from a Detroiter who was buying Soul records in 1967. I've never even seen it in the collection of any Detroit Soul collecter. Personally, I don't think it even got to the record shops, and only a tiny local Detroit pressing was made, and Revilot didn't even bother distributing them, due to trying hard to get their current hit [["I Wanna Testify") by The Parliaments, out to distributors and record shops. I think that the few that are in the hands of British NS collectors came to the public after 1980, from a batch that had been in the hands of whoever inherited Revilot's stock [[Don Davis?).
I'll be curious to read what Detroiters from that time say about this.
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