House Of Beauty / HOB Records

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Highly doubtful that you will find a HOB set, in fact, you are being presented with more information on the secret label than anyone has ever seen before.
I have Dave Rimmers Detroit discography book; as well as the Motown Encyclopedia and Carmen or the HOB label is completely absent from it. Thank you Robb for the information that you have given to us.

Some years ago, our own, Ron Murphy, was working on getting a CD series on all Mrs. Murphy's labels together. There was some delay in finding the proper rights owner, and then he got sick, and unfortunately he died. And none of us, who were involved had the time to pursue that project. I have no idea who the rights owners are, as Ron was handling that alone.

Unfortunately, I don't have the time now, or the ability to spend time in The Detroit Area; and, indeed, I'm wondering when or even IF I'll even be able to return home, or if I'll risk sitting in an airport waiting room or in the confined space of an airplane ever again, or ever schedule another seminar. There were a couple other people on this forum interested in this project, including Ralph. They were all Detroiters. But I don't remember if they all still lived in Southeastern Michigan, and I think they were all as old as I am. So, I don't know if any of them would have any interest in pursuing that project now. But, with The current Corona Virus situation, it's not a good time to try to get things moving in that direction.

By the way, I have about 10 more House of Beauty Gospel records from that label's pre-Scepter ownership period I could have scanned on this thread, but I didn't want to clutter it up with way too many graphics. It's already eating up too much of the available band width.

We had so many threads like this on the old SDF that were lost when Lowell had to change platforms. Ralph had put them all in a "Classic Threads" section of The SDF Archives. But I can't find it. Remember, we had "Pre-Motown Gordy Productions", "Off-Motown Detroit Soul Labels", "New York Jobete Music Office Productions", "Los Angeles Jobete Music Office Productions", "Detroit Gospel", "'50s Detroit R&B", Individual label threads like "Thelma", "Ed Wingate labels[[Golden World/Ric Tic/Wingate)", "Fortune", "Solid Hitbound[[Revilot/Groovesville/Solid Hit)", "Correc-Tone", and many more similar style ongoing many months threads filled with label scans and discussion of their histories. Luckily, a lot of the latter were duplicated in Graham Finch's and others' Detroit label webisodes, still in existence on SDF.