From a Facebook post:
[[look our for more unreleased Brenda treasures on our next volume of Motown Girls due 27/08/2021).
From a Facebook post:
[[look our for more unreleased Brenda treasures on our next volume of Motown Girls due 27/08/2021).
Did somebody say Brenda???
Even after two anthology sets and countless tracks on MU, there’s still more Brenda left in the vaults! Wow!
I would love it if they included some live concert tracks by Brenda!
Thanks to the West Grand Boulevard blog, here is the cover and a tidbit:
[ For West Grand readers with more devotion to recordings actually made in the Snakepit, let’s close with news of the latest More Motown Girls compilation from England’s estimable Ace Records. Good Good Feeling! is its title, and although some of the 25 tracks have been previously available as MP3s in Universal Music’s Motown Unreleased series, six have never been out before. These include songs cut by Martha & the Vandellas, Brenda Holloway [[the album’s title track) and Hattie Littles.
Good Good Feeling! is currently set for release in August, as another contribution to this year’s summer of soul. Better get the coffee in, if not something stronger.]
Excellent!!!
It's good to see the Velvelettes in the 2nd slot. Hmmh... Alternate version? Or has the Cal lead on Everybody Needs Love been found?
It's probable that the complete line-up will be revealed in the next couple of weeks.
I`m fizzin`. Looks really good - can`t wait. I think that Chris Clark would rival Brenda Holloway as to still unreleased tracks.
VERY excited about this upcoming release! Gotta get our Motown fix wherever it comes from!
Track listing please!!!! If the cover art is already out there, surely the tracks have been chosen. Don't keep us in suspense...some of us are too old to handle that!!!
Sorry for the delay! Here's the track list:
This Love I've Got - Martha & the Vandellas
Nothing But A Fool - Gladys Knight & The Pips
I'm In Love [[And I Know It) [Sandra Tilley lead] - The Velvelettes
Good Good Feeling - Brenda Holloway
I'm So Helpless [[When I'm With You) - Debbie Dean
Can't Figure It Out - The Lewis Sisters
A Love So Deep Inside - The Velvelettes
Show Me The Way - Gladys Knight & The Pips
Hold Me Oh My Darling - Ann Bogan
I Don't Want Your Promises - LaBrenda Ben
Drop In The Bucket - Kim Weston
Don't Be Too Long - Anita Knorl
It's Hard To Walk Away - Martha & the Vandellas
Stuck-Up - Oma Heard
My Daddy Knows Best - Little Lisa
In Twenty Words Or Less - LaBrenda Ben
When I Was In School - Hattie Littles
Keep Me - Brenda Holloway
Never Trust A Man - Chris Clark
Watching A Plane In The Sky - Barbara McNair
In The Neighborhood - Connie Haines
My World Is Crumbling - The Lewis Sisters
Send Him To Me - Debbie Dean
Can't We Be Strangers Again - Blinky
All I Could Do Was Cry - Yvonne Fair
All tracks are MONO. Previously unmixed tracks mixed by Richard Hughes. All booklet photos courtesy of Eric Charge. Produced by Mick Patrick and self. And thanks - as always - to Harry Weinger.
Last edited by keith_hughes; 06-26-2021 at 05:41 AM.
Keith,
Thank you, thank you, thank you for this release and especially Little Lisa's 'My Daddy Knows Best'. I'm really looking forward to it as so many of us are.
I see that samples are up at the Ace website.
Thank you.
Looks great Keith
Thanks to all concerned.
More Connie Haines...can't wait.
Looking forward to this set! Gonna feed our Motown fix this August! Thanks, Keith!
So the new unreleased tracks are:
This Love I've Got - M&TV
Good Good Feeling - B. Holloway
Watching a Plane in the Sky- B. McNair
When I Was In School - H. Little
In The Neighborhood - Connie Haines
And wasn't the Ann Bogan track - Hold Me Oh My Darling just released on Cellarful Of Motown 5?
I don`t recall "My World Is Crumbling" by the Lewis Sisters.
Really looking forward to this so thank you. The cover looks great - Gladys is always welcome [[as are The Pips even if not girls lol). The names you would expect from a release such as this. Can't wait.
My World Is Crumbling. By The Lewis Sisters. YES! I've been waiting for what seems like a lifetime for a complete recording of one of their best; and one of The Funk Brothers' most incredible performances. Many, MANY THANKS for this!
I don't think it was a demo. The band track is a full-on Funk Brothers/Snake Pit affair. As brilliant as Brenda's recording is [[and it IS), The Lewis Sisters' version is amazingly arranged and just too good to be a demo. As it turns out, for my money, it was one of Motown's greatest wasted tracks. Even if the Lewis Sisters didn't get the release, it was too good to waste.
It`s definitely the Funk Brothers so much superior to the LA. version.
No doubt, Brenda's was done in L.A., but The Lewis Sisters' version was recorded in Detroit. It's a vastly different creation than Brenda's L.A. recording. Even if you showed me liner notes saying The Lewis Sisters' band track was done in L.A. I wouldn't believe a word of it. There is no way on earth there is an L.A. musician on The Lewis Sisters' version. Their unfinished version is heard here at the 2:39 mark:
Last edited by WaitingWatchingLookingForAChance; 06-28-2021 at 12:30 AM.
What a fantastic looking line up! I love when they have "familiar songs by unfamiliar artists," like the old 'Motown Superstars Sing Motown Superstars' from one of the early vault releases that came out on vinyl in the late 80s. Will be interesting to hear a Sandra Tilley lead on a song also covered later by Martha & the Vandellas [[prior to Tilley joining the group). Similarly, Kim Weston's version of "Drop in the Bucket" will be fun to compare to the Mary Wells version which I think is outstanding.
Have we heard "All I Could Do Was Cry" by Yvonne Fair before? The title is familiar but maybe I'm mixing it up with "It Should Have Been Me."
Kenneth "All I Could Do Was Cry" was from Unreleased 1969.
Keith Hughes' background on the six previously unreleased sides & a few photos from the booklet are now posted at the Ace website
Just had an email from ACE that they have shipped my copy already!!
Apparently.the LAST Brenda Holloway Motown recording...that is bad news.
The band track to the MR &TV has been around on bootleg releases.
I think I have it on a CD as "In the Snakepit" ???...need to check
Connie Haines...has this been issued prior to this CD?
I'm out of touch :[[
Last edited by snakepit; 06-28-2021 at 10:33 AM.
The Ace site refers to 6 u/i..but only mentions 5, so I think Connie Haines is a 'new' u/i.
Snakepit, you're correct. When I heard the sample, I was like, "I've heard this before... where have I heard it???" And, sure enough, it is track number 18 on "In The Snakepit" and entitled there as "All The Time" [maybe that was a working title?].
As for the last Brenda Holloway recording... that IS bad news. I can only hope that somewhere, somehow, another recording[s] will be unearthed on a reel that nobody knew about. Gotta keep the faith!
Danman869
Hello.
Thanks for confirming that. I do have the "In the Snakepit" [ nice of them to name a CD after me) bootleg but without looking, couldn't remember the "title".
Might have guessed that there was a storming vocal to it....sounds great.
Probably an Ivy Hunter track
Mention of Connie Haines version of 'In The Neighborhood' reminded me that I'd read that she had recorded the song. Then I remembered where.... The Chris Clark Anthology notes. So I revisited them. Tommy Good and Kim Weston are listed among those who recorded a version of the song, but I don't recall either ever being released.
Keith or Paul, Were these just listings or are there actual recordings in the tape vault? Have they been found or are they waiting to be found? If they have been found, are they not of a releasable quality?
After some exhaustive searching with my good pal theboyfromxtown we have come to the conclusion that 'probably' Kim never recorded a vocal as there seems to be no paperwork to support the theory either. Now Tommy is a different matter there looks to have been two vocals recorded - the first of which was criminally erased and the second which looks to have been over dubbed. And then I got REALLY excted as there was a paperwork mention of Ivy Jo Hunter BUT it looks like it was just assigned to him with no vocal ever being attempted. And so that appears to be that and Connie's version looks to be the last one in the can and there appears to be no others, however as we say over on Cellarful Of Motown - 'with Motown - never say never'
I love " in the neighbourhood/ on the avenue".
Such a shame nobody got a release on it.
I think it was Motown's attempt to ride the "The In Crowd" wave. Probably the trend had faded by the time it was recorded on the various artists.
[QUOTE=snakepit;640864]Apparently.the LAST Brenda Holloway Motown recording...that is bad news
Now Larry do not read too much into what appears to be some peculiar subediting of what Keith probably wrote......
Just keep your ears open and keep hoping!
I also had an email from Ace yesterday advising that my order for this CD had been shipped. Given the advertised release date, I contacted them and they apologised and advised that the email had been sent out in error and the CD will not be shipped until late August.
I thought it seemed premature..although I have NOT had such an email from ACE.
I can`t believe that this is the last Brenda Holloway track as I have a list of 30 odd mainly "assigned" titles that have not seen the light of day. This could mean that they were to be recorded around the time that she left. There are some alternates as well.
Ace have not advised that me that my copy is not coming either.
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