"Meet Margie Joseph" on blue labels / "Margie Joseph Makes A New Impression" on sleeve and yellow labels.
Produced by Darryl Carter and Fred Briggs / A Colsoul Production.
Arrangers: Dale Warren, Darryl Carter, Fred Briggs.
Engineers: Bobby Manuel, Larry Hamby, Jimmy Johnson, Ed Wolfrum.
Re-Mix Engineers: Ron Capone, Steve Smith.
Tracks Cut by Bar-Kays and Staff Musicians at Stax Records, Memphis,
and Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section at Muscle Shoals Sound Studio, Sheffield, Alabama.
Photography: Joel Brodsky.
Liner Notes: Larry McKinley (WYLD, New Orleans), Margie Joseph.
Art Direction: The Graffiteria / David Krieger.
Art Supervision: Herb Kole.
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"Monologue: Women Talk" is unnumbered in the label listing.
Track listing starts with A1 / "Stop In The Name Of Love".
Produced by Fred Briggs & Darryl Carter,
Tracks cut by The Bar-Kays and Staff Musicians at Stax Records, Memphis, Tennessee and....
Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section at Muscle Shoals Sound Studio, Sheffield, Alabama.
Engineer : Bobby Manuel, Ed Wolfrum, Jimmy Johnson, Larry Hamby
Remix Engineer : Ron Capone, Steve Smith
Arranged by Dale Warren, Darryl Carter, Fred Briggs
Hi Phil, thanks so much for the label scans! I changed the LP title from "Makes A New Impression" to "Margie Joseph Makes A New Impression" acc. to label print.
And I "upped" the yellow of your label scans .. they now look bright like the standard old Volt labels; I guess yours should look just like that. (In case they don't, I still can edit the scans and make them less bright). Anyhow, thx again.
Thanks Phil, would love to see a scan of your labels here!
As for the labels, we know that the blue ones were used for the 6000s series, supplanting the preceding yellow ones, but several 6000s issues still have yellow labels - e.g. VOS-6006 and as late as 1971 VOS-6016 ! I am not sure, though, that this was merely a mistake by the Monarch pressing plant (as stated on the bsnpubs website and elsewhere) because they should have noticed that by 1971?
As for Margie's first LP, I never understood why her debut album got the title "Makes A New Impression", since this insinuates, at least to my understanding, that she already made an impression before that. Well she did, but not on LP. Instead, "Meet Margie Joseph" does make good sense for a debut album. If anything it sounds pretty conventional, the nice initial alliteration notwithstanding. So the obvious guess here is that the LP was first meant to be entitled "Meet Margie Joseph", and even the new blue labels had been printed to that effect. Then somebody changed his mind and came up with "Makes A New Impression" as we find it on the front and back cover of Volt #6012. Irony of sorts that the new title was then printed by Monarch on the old yellow labels!
Btw, I checked Bowman's and Gordon's Histories of Stax Records but there is nothing helpful regarding Margie Joseph's LPs.
Oh yes, lest I forget, looking on ebay etc over the past years the blue labels "Meet M.J." seem to be more common than the yellow ones.
I never knew about that earlier title! My copy has the second title (Makes A New Impression) on what look like Atlantic-era yellow Volt labels, pressed by Monarch I think (if that's the meaning of the joined-together MR in a circle showing in the deadwax).
P.S. same as the labels on PHASE II,which I never had on LP.