Vinyl Album - Thelma Houston - Sunshower - Tamla Motown

Vinyl Album

Artist:	Thelma Houston
Title:	Sunshower
Label:	Tamla Motown
Country:	UK
Catalogue:	STMS 5030
Date:	Aug 1981
Format:	LP
Collection:	I Own It I Want It
Community:	4 Own
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Track	Artist	Title	Composer	Rating
A1	Thelma Houston	Sunshower (From "His Own Dark City")	J.Webb	Rate
A2	Thelma Houston	Everybody Gets To Go To The Moon/By The Light Of The Silvery Moon	J.Webb, Edwards, Madden	Rate
A3	Thelma Houston	To Make It Easier On You	J. Webb	Rate
A4	Thelma Houston	Didn't We	J.Webb	Rate
A5	Thelma Houston	Crazy Mixed-Up Girl	J.Webb	Rate
A6	Thelma Houston	Someone Is Standing Outside	J.Webb	Rate
B1	Thelma Houston	Jumpin' Jack Flash	M. Jagger, K. Richard	Rate
B2	Thelma Houston	This Is Where I Came In	J.Webb	Rate
B3	Thelma Houston	Pocketful Of Keys	J.Webb	Rate
B4	Thelma Houston	This Is Your Life	J.Webb	Rate
B5	Thelma Houston	Cheap Lovin'	J.Webb	Rate
B6	Thelma Houston	If This Was The Last Song	J.Webb	Rate

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Produced and arranged by Jimmy Webb for Canopy Productions.

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johnnyhotspur 3rd Nov 2023		So, they took the 'Crazy' out of track A5 for the US Motown release.



RogerFoster 28th Feb 2015		Well PhilMH .. Jim Webb had been a Motown staff-writer in the mid/late 1960s, as mentioned in this Nashville Songwriters link. This accounts for records like "Do What You Gotta Do" by the Four Tops which was a big U.K. hit in 1969 and the various Motown versions of songs like "MacArthur Park", "By the time I Get To Phoenix" and "Little Green Apples". And if I look at the publishers of some of the songs on this collection I see that Jobete gets mentioned on some of the tracks, and Jobete was Motown's publishing company. Presumably Motown had some "claim" to this L.P. from day one through the Jim Webb connection and so no doubt the legal technicalities of buying it outright from ABC/Dunhill were relatively simple once Thelma started to have some big sellers for Motown.



Neil Forbes 28th Feb 2015		At my guess, Phil, even through that period you suggested, the words EMI Records Ltd. would still be appearing on the labels. I've seen it there on 1977-vintage 45s(I have two Stevie Wonder singles of that vintage, British too! I've seen it printed on them) so I don't think Motown International shook off its dependency on EMI that easily!



PhilMH 28th Feb 2015		Hi Neil, yes, Motown did have an office in the UK - to be really precise, I think it was called Motown International - but they didn't really operate independently of EMI or their subsequent licensees, though I believe that they did coordinate Motown's releases worldwide (there was apparently a brief few months int the mid-to-late 70's where they separated from EMI and self-distributed as "Motown Records Limited", before deciding to return to EMI, but I'm not sure if that name ever appeared on records - I've never seen it.)



Neil Forbes 28th Feb 2015		Hi, PhilMH! Your reply contained the words "Motown UK" which prompted me to click for a close-up and scrutinise the labels "with extreme scrute!"(ha-ha) and noted the words "EMI Records Ltd." at the beginning of the copyright warning. Are you suggesting that Motown had started operating in England, independently of EMI?



PhilMH 28th Feb 2015		Hi Neil, your comment wasn't there when I started typing! I beleive it was Motown UK, rather than EMI, who decided to go back to Tamla Motown for any reissues of pre-October 1976 material (that being the date that the blue label was introduced internationally). When the Motown licence for the UK moved to RCA in October 1981, RCA continued that practice.



PhilMH 28th Feb 2015		Hi Roger, Motown in the US reissued this as well, in about June 1981. I never found out all the whys and wherefores, but Motown purchased this album from ABC, or from MCA (who bought ABC in 1979). Note the subtle difference in the copyright wording on the back cover and labels - "original sound recordings owned by Motown Record Corporation" rather than the usual "..made by..".



Neil Forbes 28th Feb 2015		It's also curious that EMI reverted to the Black-label Tamla/Motown after 5-6 years of the blue and white "fan" design(best word I could think of) with the US Motown logo. A backward step, ay?



RogerFoster 28th Feb 2015		It is curious that EMI issued this on the "Tamla-Motown" label as originally it wasn't a Motown release at all but came out on ABC/Dunhill in The U.S. and Stateside in The U.K. I remember when it first came out in 1969 her version of "Jumpin' Jack Flash" got a lot of play on BBC Radio 1.

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Linked Releases

USA - Dunhill - 1969

UK - Stateside Dunhill - 1969

France - Stateside - 1970

UK - ABC - 1974

USA - Motown - 1981