Motown promo lps

[motown_anthony]

I was just wondering if the promo lps released after the promo copies went to stereohave the same quality as the regular commercial motown lps?

[DWSheffer]

I've never compared a WLP vs. a stock label release of the 1968 on LP's that were only released as stereo WLP's, but I would assume for all intent and purposes the stampers are the same, thus the sound quality is the same. I always figured the WLP's are just the first pressings from the stampers and after those quantities were produced they simply switched to using stock labels from there out.
Darin

[gman]

I had a Cream of the Crop promo that had the tambourine version intro to Someday....I believe it was Mono...

[DWSheffer]

COTC was only released in the US in stereo as far as I'm aware. I have the stock label stereo and the WLP in stereo. By the time COTC came out, they were not doing the special WLP DJ Only mono releases as they did in 1968. If it's a mono US pressing we'd love to see it posted. I think this was discussed in the COTC tambourine thread on the Supremes forum.

[sup_fan]

I've never compared a WLP vs. a stock label release of the 1968 on LP's that were only released as stereo WLP's, but I would assume for all intent and purposes the stampers are the same, thus the sound quality is the same. I always figured the WLP's are just the first pressings from the stampers and after those quantities were produced they simply switched to using stock labels from there out.
Darin

i would tend to agree. it would be too complex to coordinate a different pressing. i think some promos went out with just B&W versions of the covers rather than the full color. but other than that, i think the only differences would be the label sticker on the lp itself and some of the covers might have an embossment in the corner reading "for promotional purposes only" or something like that

[woodward]

Although I don't specialize in comparing commercial releases vs. WLPs but I have one specific album that someone might be interested in knowing about. I have MARY WILSONS Motown release M7-927. The vinyl record looks like any other record on Motown, however, the cover with her picture on the front has a gold impression: FOR PROMOTION ONLY ... Ownership Reserved By ... MOTOWN RECORDS ... Sales Is Unlawful.

I have never seen one like this for any other release. Has anyone?

[reese]

Although I don't specialize in comparing commercial releases vs. WLPs but I have one specific album that someone might be interested in knowing about. I have MARY WILSONS Motown release M7-927. The vinyl record looks like any other record on Motown, however, the cover with her picture on the front has a gold impression: FOR PROMOTION ONLY ... Ownership Reserved By ... MOTOWN RECORDS ... Sales Is Unlawful.

I have never seen one like this for any other release. Has anyone?

My copy has the same stamp. I've also seen it on Smokey's WHERE'S THERE'S SMOKE. I gather Motown promo lps at the time had stamps as well.

[bob_olhsson]

Promos were higher quality pressings. Initial releases and promos were usually pressed by RCA.

[gman]

Usually they are sought after by collectors because they are the first off the plates...

[motown_anthony]

do you know if they ever did a promo copy for love child? I have see one fro albums by the supremes before and after it, but have never seen one for Motown 670.

[Roger Polhill]

I believe so as it appears on Ben`s bootleg cd.

[DWSheffer]

Anthony, I've never seen a WLP release for the "Love Child" LP and I do not think it was released as such.

Preceding it, the first designated promo LP are copies of "Reflections" that have the "monoaural record DJ copy" black oval stickers over the cover's stereo designation, but every copy I've ever seen has had a stock label mono LP enclosed. Both "Funny Girl" and "Talk of The Town" have mono DJ WLP pressings. "TCB" and "Join" both have stereo WLP's. "Love Child" stock stereo releases only, as far as I've ever been aware. Post "Love Child" releases all have a WLP stereo release through the Detroit era. I feel the scarcest WLP release is for "Greatest Hits Vol. 3". I chanced upon the copy in my collection on Ebay years ago and I've never seen another copy. Certainly not saying I have the only one, lol, but it's a very difficult title to find as a WLP.
Darin

[paul_nixon]

Anthony, I've never seen a WLP release for the "Love Child" LP and I do not think it was released as such.

Preceding it, the first designated promo LP are copies of "Reflections" that have the "monoaural record DJ copy" black oval stickers over the cover's stereo designation, but every copy I've ever seen has had a stock label mono LP enclosed. Both "Funny Girl" and "Talk of The Town" have mono DJ WLP pressings. "TCB" and "Join" both have stereo WLP's. "Love Child" stock stereo releases only, as far as I've ever been aware. Post "Love Child" releases all have a WLP stereo release through the Detroit era. I feel the scarcest WLP release is for "Greatest Hits Vol. 3". I chanced upon the copy in my collection on Ebay years ago and I've never seen another copy. Certainly not saying I have the only one, lol, but it's a very difficult title to find as a WLP.
Darin

WLP COTC blah blah I wish posters would write their messages in full it makes reading posts so infuriatingly difficult.

An there are quite a few white promotional LP's with differences to the released version - I believe Riding High is one where there are several differences alo Here Comes The Judge I believe is somewhat different. According to paperwork Funny Girl for instance was not mixed to mono so maybe the promotional copy is just a fold down.

[simon.millar]

I used to collect the WLP Tamla albums released by Marvin Gaye, and these seemed to run through from Your’re All I Need with Tammi [[TM284) through to Let’s Get It On [[T329), with DJ suffix. There were also DJ copies of Diana and Marvin and The Anthology set on the motown label, plus Save The Children.

For these albums I don’t recall there ever being any differences to the standard release, except the early ones were monaural.