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From the pages of Record World, date noted. The featured A&M Records 1967 ad was digitally restored and re-imaged by Motor City Radio Flashbacks
Category: Record World
RECORD WORLD | DEON JACKSON! 1967 AD: CARLA RECORDS
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From the pages of Record World, date noted. The featured Atco/Carla Records 1967 ad was digitally restored and re-imaged by Motor City Radio Flashbacks
RECORD WORLD | MOTOWN EXECUTIVES HEAD TO EUROPE . . . . OCTOBER 10, 1964
Motown Founder Berry Gordy, Esther Edwards, Barney Ales Head to UK and Europe to Set Up the Tamla-Motown Label
DETROIT — Berry Gordy, Jr., President of Motown Record Corporation, will fly to London, England, Oct. 5 to meet with officials of EMI Records and to arrange for overseas exploitation and distribution for the diskery’s product on a Tamla-Motown label. He will be accompanied by Mrs. Esther Edwards, Vice–President-Director of the firm’s International operations; Barney Ales, Exec Vice-President and Sales Director, and George Schiffer, Motown Legal Counsel.
The foursome will spend two to three weeks abroad visiting other licensees distributing Motown’s products. A sharp up-swing in popularity in Europe of Motown’s disks is currently evidenced by top chart position of America’s The Supremes, recipients of the coveted Shooting Star Award from England for their recording of “Where Did Our Love Go,” plus strong airplays on Radio Caroline, England and Radio Veronica, Holland.
Records by such other Motown Artists as Marvin Gaye, The Miracles, Martha and The Vandellas, The Four Tops, The Marvelettes, The Temptations, Mary Wells, The Contours, Kim Weston and Brenda Holloway have been registering solid reaction overseas, label reports. More than half the aforementioned are currently represented on national charts in the United States.
The Supremes, who currently have two hit singles on the Motown label, the most recent, “Baby Love,” and also an album entitled, “Where Did Our Love Go,” will arrive at London Airport, England, 8 a.m., Tuesday, Oct. 6 for a one-week whirlwind tour of radio and TV engagements. Should time permit, The Supremes will visit Holland, Germany and France for a day in each country.
Mrs. Edwards plans, while overseas, to setup TV, theater and nightclub engagements, as well as personal appearance and promotion tours for the artists.
Motown, in the record business less than six years, has experienced a meteoric rise under Gordy’s direction. Last year the company had 32 hits on the major charts. Now in an expansion pro gram, Motown is increasing its album output and plans to place heavier emphasis on jazz, country and folk, states VP Ales.
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Information, credit and news source: Record World, October 10, 1964
RECORD WORLD | KAMA SUTRA RECORDS: 1965 AD! THE LOVIN’ SPOONFUL
The Lovin’ Spoonful | #201 | Do You Believe In Magic
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RECORD WORLD | WARNER BROS. RECORDS: 1965 AD! FREDDY CANNON
Freddie ‘Boom Boom” Cannon | #5645 | Action (Where The Action Is)
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The featured Warner Bros. Records ad was digitally restored by Motor City Radio Flashbacks
RECORD WORLD: SHADES OF BLUE! IMPACT RECORDS
—SHADES OF BLUE—
Oh How Happy is a song written by Edwin Starr. It was a hit for the group The Shades of Blue.
The song was first recorded by The Shades of Blue. While at Golden World, they were recording background vocals and some demos. Edwin Starr happened to be there. Hearing them sing and liking the way they sounded, he had an unfinished song that he had an idea to do more with. He sat down with the group and they worked out the chorus and wording. According to group member Nick Marinelli, they actually contributed some of the wording and chorus, but weren’t credited for that. He cites their youth and inexperience for not knowing what their crediting should have been. The song was recorded in the late fall of 1965. They took the record to Harry Balk at Impact Records. He signed them into a contract. The record was released in March 1966 and in no time went straight to no. 1 in the local Detroit radio market. Nationally it got to no. 12 in the pop charts and no. 7 in the R&B charts.
Five weeks on the Record World pop charts, Oh How Happy by the Shades Of Blue climbs to #43 this week, May 28, 1965.
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Source: Wikipedia and Record World, May 28, 1966
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