What's the oddest motown record that you own?

[Methuselah2]

That's an easy one, Kamasu: For me, it's Tony Martin's ASK ANY MAN. Although a re-constituted version of The Supremes' great ASK ANY GIRL by HDH, it was produced by Hal Davis & Marc Gordon, and I'm still scratching my head over how this recording came to be. It's quite an oddity--make that a space oddity. It's an amazing recording--but I don't mean that in a good way: I mean the Ed-Sullivan-Show-opera-singer-warbling-DOWNTOWN kind of way. As awful as it is, the real point of fascination for me about it is how someone came up with the idea to use ASK ANY GIRL for Tony Martin. The Mystery of the Sphinx doesn't even come close to this one. Releasing it with a record sleeve wasn't nearly enough--it needed to come with a strait-jacket! For the buyers!

Proceed with caution--posted on YouTube by SimonW:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qPb0FCtXGNY