A1 | Smokey Robinson And The Miracles | Yester Love | Robinson, Cleveland | Rate |
A2 | Smokey Robinson And The Miracles | If You Can Want | Wm. Robinson | Rate |
A3 | Smokey Robinson And The Miracles | Special Occasion | Robinson, Cleveland | Rate |
A4 | Smokey Robinson And The Miracles | Everybody Needs Love | Whitfield, Holland | Rate |
A5 | Smokey Robinson And The Miracles | Just Losing You | Wm. Robinson | Rate |
A6 | Smokey Robinson And The Miracles | Give Her Up | Wm. Robinson | Rate |
B1 | Smokey Robinson And The Miracles | I Heard It Through The Grapevine | Whitfield, Strong | Rate |
B2 | Smokey Robinson And The Miracles | Yesterday | J. Lennon, P. McCartney | Rate |
B3 | Smokey Robinson And The Miracles | Your Mother's Only Daughter | Robinson, Cleveland | Rate |
B4 | Smokey Robinson And The Miracles | Much Better Off | Robinson, Moore | Rate |
B5 | Smokey Robinson And The Miracles | You Only Build Me Up To Tear Me Down | Wm. Robinson | Rate |
Photos By/Motown GA - P. Bass
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Vinyl Fan-45worlds 29th Jul 2015
| | Added cover scans fmc. |
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W.B.lbl ● 29th Jul 2015
| | @Vinyl Fan: Don't be ashamed. The label fonts (12 and 14 point Erbar Bold Condensed and 6 point Spartan Heavy Condensed) alone are worth having this - certainly I'd've had it if I'd seen it. But their pressings of Motown and sublabel product still used lacquers from RCA's Chicago studios, with the RCA Custom numbers stamped onto the deadwax, so it's nothing to sneeze at. (I've a few such Supremes LP's that were CRC-oriented pressings, thus I can attest.)
Also, except for a brief period in 1967 when one or more of RCA's pressing plants were on strike, Columbia didn't press any stock product (LP or 45) for Motown and its sublabels at all between mid-1965 and Fall 1970; all Columbia pressings within that period (even 45's, in the 1966-67 period) were for the record club and its customers. Evidently, at the time the Columbia plants didn't get the newer Tamla label design, hence their using an "outdated" label. But then some plants used "outdated" 45 label designs for Tamla and Gordy, which is why you occasionally see old "It's What's In The Grooves That Counts" logohead labels on some pressings of The Temptations' ground-breaking "Cloud Nine" single, and even "globes" labels for Marvin Gaye's monster "I Heard It Through The Grapevine" 45. |
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Record Collector-45worlds 29th Jul 2015
| | B1 Classic |
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Neil Forbes-45worlds 29th Jul 2015
| | This is a 1968 release, so why are they using a label design for Tamla that had been superseded two years earlier? |
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Vinyl Fan-45worlds 28th Jul 2015
| | So this is a record club issue? I hate those things damn! I wish I had known this was a CRC copy, I would not have bought it.
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W.B.lbl ● 28th Jul 2015
| | Wonder what the RCA Custom mono W4RM matrix numbers would be. But it's interesting that Columbia Pitman (whose type is seen here) would have put out a mono copy (all only for Columbia Record Club customers). |
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Vinyl Fan-45worlds 28th Jul 2015
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