SOUL
US Labels and Company Sleeves 1964-1978
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| to 35006 - sep 1965 |
to 35020 - mar 1966 |
Printers mistake: Distributed by Bell Records, Inc., N.Y.C. |
35010 - mar 1965 to 35012 - may 1965 Printers mistake overprinted |
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Soul label was started in March 1964, primarily as an R&B/Jazz
outlet for the growing Motown empire. But this didn’t last long,
given Motown’s hitmaking tendancies and an artist roster of Junior
Walker and the All Stars, The Originals, Jimmy Ruffin (brother
of The Temptations, David), Shorty Long, and Gladys Knight and
The Pips - how could the chart-toppers not happen? They did and
well into the early 70’s. Soul continued along with Motown’s move to Los Angeles in 1973, but it’s staying power was now jeopardized with Gladys Knight moving to Buddah. Motown sadly closed down it’s fourth-largest subsidiary in April 1978. |
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to 35026 - aug 1966 |
and 35022 - jun 1966 |
No perimeter print Sporadic |
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| No perimeter print Sporadic |
to 35107 - jul 1973 Sporadic |
to 35090 - nov 1971 |
to 35123 - apr 1978 Label discontinued |
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| $ 37.000 in 2009 |
that never exsisted |
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worlds most expensive record. The Soul label is also home to the worlds most expensive record - Frank Wilson's "Do I Love You" (35019). The record was cancelled by Berry Gordy and he had ordered the pressing plant to destroy all copies. Currently, only two actual singles are known to exsist, both are DJ copies. One of the copies was apparently Motown's file copy, the other was the pressing plants file copy. One of these records surfaced in England in 1977, and quickly became a Northern-Soul club favorite, prompting UK's Tamla-Motown to officially release the record in 1979 (TMG 1170). One of the copies sold for 37.000 U.S. dollars in 2009. Hear the song. |
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| in the same sleeves - "The Sound of Young America" Continue to Motown |
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