If you see a Majestics here that has a definition on 45cat that needs changing, either leave a comment on page, or submit a correction, and it will be so :)
Well MM ... Usually, with things like this I use 45Cat as the starting point for sort out the various groups of the same name. So I thought that I would do so with the only Majestics that I know a bit about ... the Motown group, fronted by future Temptation Richard Street, who changed their name to "The Monitors" to prevent confusion with the group from Los Angeles who appear on this CD.
The Motown group did have a single due to be released on Motown's VIP subsidiary which appeared on The Complete Motown Singles Volume 4 CD box-set and I knew that there was a connection with the group who did "Hard Times" who appear on the Motor City Soul CD that Mojo Magazine put out a couple of years back.
Of course it's not that simple ... over at 45Cat they have the Motown Majestics linked with the "Hard Times" group but not with The Monitors, though there is a note over there that after personnel changes the (Detroit) Majestics did become the (Motown) Monitors.
The whole thing reminds me of that scene in "Only Fools & Horses" where Trigger reckons that he has been using the same sweep for years, even though the brush and handle have been replaced a few times. When (if ever) do personnel changes make a group change into a separate entity? Given that no-one has any difficulty in considering the earliest incarnation of The Drifters as being the same group as the line-up fronted by Ben E King or Johnny Moore the answer might be never. . .
Anyway, being a bit bemused and bewildered (in a suitably majestic way of course) I've put some images and a comment on their withdrawn Motown 45 over at 45Cat to see what the people over there think!!
I've defined Majestics here as: Majestics [LA], and included that name in The Majestics [LA] discography...
...But there seems to be plenty of Majestic-ism in the database of varying origins, one a doo-wop group, another from Japan etc.
So if anyone can help sort these, and knows their Majestics from their Majesties, help would be appreciated (Just tag a CD that has one or others with a comment on relevant page, or submit it as a corretion.