a) H 1197-A / XCTV 82895.
b) H 1198-A / XCTV 82896.
Design by Barni Wright.
Credits as on labels.
Produced by: Smokey Robinson (A1, A2, A3, B3, B5), Brian Holland and Robert Bateman (A4, A5, B2), Mickey Stevenson (B1, B2), Berry Gordy (B4). Not credited.
Recorded at Hitsville U.S.A. Studios, Detroit, MI.
Originally issued in Mono only.
The album review in Billboard was only published on October 6, 1962, and Peter Benjaminson in his Mary Wells: The Tumultuous Life of Motown's First Superstar (Chicago 2012) likewise states "09/1962" as release date for this LP. Benjaminson doesn't say where he did get the release date from*, but the BB review would not appear some 4 months after the release, although a few BB reviews did appear rather belatedly over the years. On the basis of this, and for what it's worth, September still seems the likelier release date.
That's interesting, dvdmike, because that location isn't referred to in the CD booklet notes for the recent Kent UK 2-on-1, which DFTMC's Keith Hughes compiled and annotated, of this album and TWO LOVERS. For "Strange Love", the annotation is "Recorded at an outside session, probably in Chicago, date unknown", and for "She Don't Love You", no location is specified, but the date is given as 6 June 1961. Also, the CD says "probably June 1962" as the release date of this LP. They seem to be taking that from the original label copy, which is reproduced in the booklet; the date June 1, 1962 is typed on that label copy, but there is also a space underneath it for "release date" that is blank. I imagine June 1 is just the date that the copy was completed and set off to the plants, and the label copy has X's for the Columbia plants in Bridgeport, Terre Haute, and Los Angeles. There appears to be an annotation next to the name of the plants with the date 6/12/62, but I can't make it out, not even by scanning and enlarging it. Gordon Frewin's (Motown international label manager in the late 1980's) discography in Sharon Davis' book MOTOWN: THE HISTORY (published 1988) also gives June 1962 as the date, presumably he was referencing the same label copy. It seems more likely that June rather than September would have been the release date, but it is possible that copies were pressed in June and then held in warehouses until September, for whatever reason.
"Strange Love" and "She Don't Love You" were recorded at Olmstead Sound Studios, New York City, NY. according to the "Don't Forget The Motor City website. http://www.dftmc.info/