Motown & Soul Albums IN VIET NAM & the FAR EAST

[Kamasu_Jr]

Recently, I discovered a part of soul music history I didn't know. Apparently, during the war in Viet Nam, there were a lot of American Soul music albums produced for Viet Nam and other parts of the Far East. These albums- I guess they were bootlegs - were created to sell to American servicemen, who purchased them for a few dollars to have musiic that reminded them of home. A colleague had a whole box full that he gave me for the American soul museum. It seems Motown was very popular. I saw a pressing of the Supremes Greatest Hits on the Chun King label with a thin paper cover with just Florence Ballard; There was another copy of Marvin Gaye's How Sweet It Is in which Marvin appears Asian.
Does anyone else collect these unusal viny pressings or know of ther origins?

[reese]

I had a copy of the Supremes' WE REMEMBER SAM COOKE album with a thin paper cover, and yellow vinyl. But I don't know if it is a part of the series that you are referring to.

[Kamasu_Jr]

I had a copy of the Supremes' WE REMEMBER SAM COOKE album with a thin paper cover, and yellow vinyl. But I don't know if it is a part of the series that you are referring to.

Probably. I've seen a lot of these pressings on colored vinyl.

[reese]

On the rear cover, there were no song titles. Instead there were other albums shown like the Vandellas' WATCHOUT! and the Tempts' GETTIN' READY. I think there were also some Atlantic albums shown as well.