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Member	Item		Review/Comment
nafalmat 30th Jun 2017		Vinyl Album The Miracles - The Miracles From The Beginning	I've pondered about track B3 on this album for decades. I've never seen a definitive answer to what this track is. It's certainly not Smokey on lead, but the voice sounds a bit like Bobby Rogers. The words seem to start as 'We're gonna have a whole lot of fun, We're gonna dance until the break of dawn, etc'. Further in 'Rockin' and Rollin' and the words 'Mama done told me' seem to be sung. But this is definitely not the 'Mama Done Told Me' song from the original US single or US album 'From the Begining'. Whether this is the Miracles or another act, we'll never know. I wonder if Smokey could shed some light on it, if he would ever be asked. So where did EMI get this track?
nafalmat 4th Apr 2017		Vinyl Album Smokey Robinson And The Miracles - Away We A Go-Go	On the mono mix, 'You don't have to say you love me' fades before the end. On the stereo mix the song ends properly. The backing rhythm on 'More more more of your love' was plagiarized by the Amen Corner on their version of 'Bend Me Shape Me'.
nafalmat 4th Apr 2017		Vinyl Album The Marvelettes - Greatest Hits	The first pressings had an orange cover, that was turned to green within a few months. I wonder why.
nafalmat 4th Apr 2017		Vinyl Album Marvin Gaye - A Tribute To The Great Nat King Cole	One strange abberation on this album is the the track 'To the ends of the earth' which on the mono pressing ends properly, but on the stereo pressing fades before the actual ending.
nafalmat 4th Apr 2017		Vinyl Album The Miracles - Greatest Hits From The Beginning	This album when releasesd in the UK contains one of the real mysteries about Motown. The UK version was released in 1966 and simply titled 'From the Beginning' as the Miracles hadn't had in UK hits at that time. It was whittled down to 14 tracks and made a single album in the UK. The mystery about the UK album is the track 'Mama done told me' which is a completely different recording and song to that on the US release. The track on the UK album had never been released in the States and does not appear to have been released ever again anywhere. I've never come across anybody who has ever been able to shed any light on this track. It certainly doesn't sound like Smokey singing lead, in fact it may not be the Miracles at all, although the lead voice could be Bobby Rogers. Most of the words are not clear as the recording is not exactly high fidelity, it is uptempo and sounds like a late 50s recording. It starts with the words 'We're gonna have a whole lot of fun, we're gonna dance until the break of dawn', and it is definitely a different song to the familiar 'Mama Done Told Me' on the US LP.