Originally Posted by
motownjohnny
Tom, that's exactly how I read it and that's why I suggest they didn't have a contract with Motown. Frank Wilson, on his own initiative recorded a couple of sides in L.A., then offered these around various companies, and as a result they were picked up by ABC and issued. And that's where the tenuous Motown connection begins and ends LOL.
In other words Lakeside were never signed to Motown and the Motown company reference simply comes about through some sloppy researching and the name Frank Wilson.
If you look at their discography on 45cat or any similar website, you'll see only one single released on ABC entitled "If I Didn't Have You" / "It's Not Only The Outside That Counts".
There are two points of interest. Firstly, both sides credit Frank E. Wilson as joint writer and producer and the label also mentions that they are taken from an LP entitled "Lakeside". The release date for this single is given as 1977, so I suspect that these are indeed the two tracks you originally mentioned and in the intervening period they may have recorded additional tracks for ABC, but I can't find any listing that suggest this album was ever released or any other songs that would have appeared on it.
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