Motown Concert booklets issued over the years.

[woodward]

I am trying to determine a listing of all the booklets that have been issued over the 1959-1972 era on behalf of Motown Records.

Here is a listing of what I have in my collection.

An Evening With the Motown Sound published by Hitsville Advertising 12/66
An Evening With the Motown Sound published by Motown Record Corp. 12/67



The Temptations booklet published by Program Publishing Co. 1966
This includes a photo and description of the Marvelettes and the Contours

An Evening with the Supremes published by Raydell NYC 1967
The Four Tops publlished by Raydell NYC 1967

Above are all original copies. I also have a Xerox copy of the following.

A Pictorial Review of the Motor Town Revue -- I do not know what year this was issued. The back cover includes 9 wallet size pictures of your favorite recording artists.


Can anyone add any to my list? Deeply appreciative.

[reese]

I have:

Supremes programs from 1965, 1966, 1967, and 1968.

Four Tops program from 1967.

Miracles and Gladys Knight and the Pips programs from 1969. I used to have a Tempts program from 1969 as well.

Diana Ross program from 1977

All of the above were published by Raydell.

I also have the Motortown Revue program you listed above. Judging by the text accompanying some of the profiles, I think it was published early 1964.

[jsmith]

Have you got this one ..

[nsoule]

Two that I have not mentioned yet that fit in that era:

Supersonic Attractions presents Motor Town Revue: Staring Marvin Gaye - From 1964? There's a drawing of Marvin singing on the cover

Super Enterprises, Inc. Present 'The Biggest Show Of Stars' for '65 25th Edition - features Choker Campbell, Willie Tyler & Lester, Spinners, Kim Weston, Marvelettes, Stevie Wonder, Four Tops, Martha & The Vandellas, Jr Walker, and The Tempts - seems like a motortown revue to me, but I guess it's not?

I think there are several one-off programs for various Supremes performances too - I know there's one for a Fisher Theatre performance in 1968 that's square. And this one that seems to be pretty rare: https://www.worthpoint.com/worthoped...remes-89213651

[DWSheffer]

I figured we might as well illustrate some of the Motown Detroit era concert programs being discussed in the thread. There is a Stevie Wonder program from '68 or so that hasn't been mentioned yet I don't think, and currently I do not have one in the collection to post.
Darin

[DWSheffer]

Here is the Supremes program from the Fisher Theatre that Nsoule mentions.

I always look closely at the listings for these programs as they are about the most common item out there that artists would routinely autograph, for obvious reasons. You never knew who fans might have run into while clutching their program waiting after a show. I think the last Supremes program is the most common one to find signed by the girls, but I'm not implying they're easy to find. One of my Supremes programs is signed by Bobby Taylor and some of the Supremes road crew. One of my best finds was an Ebay "Buy It Now" listing for a 1965 Supremes program for $24.99. Although the sellers photos were bad, I could see that Flo had signed the back of the program. This was not all that long ago and was a super addition to the collection. Sorry the bottom two photos are not vertical; I don't know why they aren't loading properly.
Darin

[DWSheffer]

Out of the examples I posted, the Motor Town Revue starring Marvin Gaye is the most scarce of the bunch. I conferred with fellow Motown memorabilia collector nsoule and between the two of us we've seen only around 5 copies come to market over the years.