When the Record Company guy messes up ...

[Philles/Motown Gary]

The incorrect label [[above top) credits Mark Gordon as co-producer. That's most likely why the record-label error occurred, as Marc Gordon, along with Hal Davis, handled Motown's West Coast business/recording affairs. Makes you wonder if the misprinted label pressing is worth anything in the collector's market.

[mysterysinger]

The incorrect label [[above top) credits Mark Gordon as co-producer. That's most likely why the record-label error occurred, as Marc Gordon, along with Hal Davis, handled Motown's West Coast business/recording affairs. Makes you wonder if the misprinted label pressing is worth anything in the collector's market.

It sells for £3.16 on Discogs. However, I'm not convinced that this is an error - I think it may have been a genuine issue on Tamla Motown in South Africa - maybe via a licensing deal. In a similar way, Bob and Marcia's "Young Gifted and Black" was issued on Tamla in the USA. The clue is the fact that it has been allocated a proper TMJ number [[correct for South Africa). There was also a Letta album - "I'll Never Be The Same" - issued only on Motown in South Africa. There were 2 Letta singles on Tamla Motown as well [[TMS-379 and TMS-393). There is a history of strange releases by Motown.

[robb_k]

The incorrect label [[above top) credits Mark Gordon as co-producer. That's most likely why the record-label error occurred, as Marc Gordon, along with Hal Davis, handled Motown's West Coast business/recording affairs. Makes you wonder if the misprinted label pressing is worth anything in the collector's market.

I doubt very much that that is a labelling error. Marc Gordon left Motown in late 1966 to form Soul City Records, with Johnny Rivers. Clearly, that was a Soul City 1967 production. They were distributed then, by Liberty Records in USA, and Liberty, in turn by United Artists. I'm guessing that UA didn't have much of a presence in South Africa back then, and the distribution of most US music that came there was handled by UK distributors. Tamla-Motown's product was distributed by EMI, one of the handful of largest UK record distributors. As I recall, E.M.I. distributed Liberty Records in The UK. So, it seems natural that E.M.I. would market and distribute American Soul music also in South Africa. Maybe the didn't sell much of Liberty's product there during the late '60s, as The O'Jays had already moved off Liberty/Imperial to Bell. So they put Soul City's product on their South African Tamla-Motown label, because they were selling lots more Motown product there than all of the UA/Liberty records. UA/Liberty had to have signed off on that. They would get a lot more money out of this situation than having EMI market them on Liberty or UA there, IF either of those labels even existed in South Africa back then.