Blimey there's so much good stuff going on here it's hard to keep up. So many names for whom I recognise a Motown connection but obviously have a much wider history and recording career - it is fascinating.

Sammy Turner seems to have been a prolific recorder of covers of well known songs. He also has at least one record produced by Phil Spector which is really good. He didn't have much on Motown but plenty of other recordings - Marginal Records [[Belgian Bootlegs) produced a CD in 1995 "The Complete Story" plus there's a CD of out of copyright stuff on the Jasmine label.

Herman Griffin keeps cropping up what with the Motown and HOB material plus singles like "Mr Heartbreak"/"Never Trust Your Girl Friend" on Double L. Both written by Robert Bateman, the latter with William Stevenson and a Jobete BMI song. His "True Love"/"It's You" was released on Tamla but also on Columbia [[US). His Anna recordings are available via out of copyright releases. He did also record later for Ian Levine.

Again not much Motown from The Serenaders [[in fact not much of anything), but one of their unreleased Motown tracks appeared on ACE records "Satisfaction Guaranteed" release this was "Say, Say, Baby".

Obviously none of this is new to any of you guys but a voyage of discovery for the likes of me and a good way to listen to their tracks in more context.