Primettes rivals [[?) : Ruby and her Swinging Rocks

**marybrewster** · 08-06-2018, 01:00 AM

A Lupine release.....maybe it's just me, but I hear "Lovelight" by the Supremes and "Heatwave" by Martha and the Vandellas?

https://youtu.be/qrQpdjfJ3-g

**WaitingWatchingLookingForAChance** · 08-06-2018, 03:32 AM

Originally Posted by marybrewster

A Lupine release.....maybe it's just me, but I hear "Lovelight" by the Supremes and "Heatwave" by Martha and the Vandellas?

https://youtu.be/qrQpdjfJ3-g

This IS like a great mash-up of those songs. Not bad.

**robb_k** · 08-06-2018, 05:23 AM

Originally Posted by marybrewster

A Lupine release.....maybe it's just me, but I hear "Lovelight" by the Supremes and "Heatwave" by Martha and the Vandellas?

https://youtu.be/qrQpdjfJ3-g

It WASN'T a LuPine release. LuPine was Robert West's label. That LP was a conglomeration of end of the '50s/early '60s R&B/Soul transition girls group songs from Detroit [[except for The Kittens -from Chicago). It only is listed as a LuPine Record because A large % of the cuts on the record were from Robert West's labels.

Ruby Yates and Her Swinging Rocks' release was on Wilbur Golden's Correc-Tone Records subsidiary label [[Hit Productions), produced by Herman Griffin [[Mary Wells' ex-husband). Correc-Tone was full of ex-Motowners, and current ones, as well. In spring 1962, Robert Bateman and Sonny Sanders disbanded The Satintones, and signed with Golden, as did Popcorn Wylie. Bateman built Golden's new recording studio. Bryan and Eddie Holland and even Motown's chief A&R man, Mickey Stevenson told Bateman they were all jumping over to Correc-Tone. but, the latter 3 were given regular salaries by Berry Gordy, plus new Cadillacs, to keep them from leaving. Janie Bradford also wrote songs for them, under the name: "Nicky Todd". They used mostly Motown musicians on their recordings [[The Funk Brothers and many others). So, it's no surprise that their recordings sounded much like Motown's. "It's Been A Long Time" was also recorded by a future Motowner, Yvonne Vernee Allen, member of The Elgins, on Robert Bateman's and Sonny Sanders' SonBert Records, a subsidiary of Correc-Tone.