tracks 1-12 = original album of same title released 1966 on dynoVoice mono lp 9002 (uk: stateside SL 10175) q.v. produced by sandy linzer & denny randell for bob crewe productions, orchestral arrangements by & conducted by charles calello.
tracks 13 & 14 = a-sides of dynoVoice singles 222 & 218 (uk: stateside 4/66 ss 539 & 9/66 ss 502) q.v.
produced for cd by bob irwin, mastered by bob irwin & chris herles.
tracks 1, 2, 5, 6, 8, 10, 12, 13 & 14 mono, 3, 4, 7, 9 & 11 stereo
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r'foster: 'twould not surprise me: i've heard similar before, though it's not in fact the toys' track rated most highly by yr hmbl srppint. - nor even one of their top-most four; but it's very hard to separate uh, "immediate, first-hand-originally-sourced, informed hearsay" from "hype from the group, their manglement-and/or-producers, and/or their record corpse" at so long a separation (five decades, yet! - where did they all go?).°
- but yes, had their manglement-cum-producers bothered to supply them with a decent supply of suitable publishers' demos, and booked them into recording studios for three or four sessions through their first year or eighteen months touring. . .
- they were definitely accounted a pop vocal group, not an r&b/race quartet to be restricted to the chitlin circuit, and really should have been encouraged to record more, including lps. ah well, we've got the compilation of their fourteen tracks for linzer & randell. . .
According to legend, Motown boss Berry Gordy was so impressed when he heard "Lover's Concerto" that he asked songwriters Holland-Dozier-Holland to come up with something similar for The Supremes ... the result was "I Hear A Symphony".