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    The Five Quails...any plans to reissue the Harvey catalog?

    I've always loved the Elgins' cover of "It's Been A Long Long Time," but the 1961 original by the Cleveland-based The Five Quails [[Billy Strawbridge, Billy Fulgham, Art Kirkpatrick, Donald Brown, and James Williams) is outstanding [[1962 saw the release of their final recordings "Never Felt Like This Before" b/w "My Love" and "I Thought" b/w "Over the Hump").

    Since these songs were recorded on the Harvey label, does that mean that Motown now owns the Five Quails' catalog? Junior Walker provided the sax backing on the Harvey sessions, so these tracks are also of interest to Junior Walker collectors.

    As far as I know, there are only two Five Quails cuts that have been released on CD: "Got to Get to School on Time" and the flipside "Been A Long Time" were featured on Motor City Memories Vol. 1 and 2 in 1991.

    Is there any chance that other Five Quails tracks might resurface on future Cellarful of Motown or other vault releases? I would love to hear more of their work [[they also recorded some cuts on Mercury in 1957).

    Been A Long Time: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nirjt_2n0vs

    Got To Get To School On Time: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P05KncE_kJc

    Five Quails bio at AllMusic: http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p...9fexq9kld0e~T1
    Last edited by vcq; 08-08-2010 at 08:00 PM.

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