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Personnel:
Crathman Plato (C.P.) Spencer - 1st Tenor
Walter Gaines - baritone
Freddie Gorman - bass
Notes:
C.P. Spencer and Walter Gaines were members of a group named Five Stars who has the distinction of being Berry Gordy's first production job in 1957, before he found his record company.
Freddie Gorman is also the writer of some of Motown's early classics such as the Marvelettes' "Please Mr. Postman" and the Supremes "I Want A Guy"
Oma Page (Heard) left Motown around 1965 after just one solitary single release on VIP "Mr Lonely Heart".
Oma at Motown :
When someone's good to you
Momma told me not to cry ( 'Momma tried to warn me' according to Jobete)
Lifetime Man
Mr Lonely Heart
Daddy Cool
Stuck Up
Thief of Love
He holds his own
These are West Coast recordings - solo - by Oma. Most are by the Pipkins
according to the Jobete Catalog (59-67).
Oma also recorded the duets with Marvin that appear on his box set together
with one other unreleased entitled 'Your Kiss, Kiss' at the end of which MG
sounds none too impressed with the effort....
WILSON PICKETT
BONNIE POINTER
BILLY PRESTON & SYREETA
Can I get A Witness
I've Got A Feeling" Originally issued on Soul
RARE EARTH
birthday (July 18)
LIONEL RITCHIE
ALL NIGHT LONG (ALL NIGHT)
HELLO
TRUELY
SMOKEY ROBINSON
BEING WITH YOU
CRUISIN'
SMOKEY ROBINSON & THE MIRACLES
BABY, BABY DON'T CRY
TEARS OF A CLOWN
WE'VE COME TO END IT NOW
ROCKWELL
SOMEBODY'S WATCHING ME
DAVID RUFFIN
replaced original member Tempataion member, Elbridge Bryant,
2) was solo, before becoming a Tempt
3) was a Tempt, 1964-1968
4) was solo, 1968-1990 (the year he died)
5) recorded duet albums, with brother Jimmy in 1971 and Eddie Kendrick (Motown took away the "s), in 1982.
6) had at least one track/single for Motorcity Records "Hurt The One You Love" (very prophetic, considering what I heard he did to Tammi Terrell)
7) Between 1988-1990 (it might be 1992), Ruffin toured with Kendrick and Edwards (who was ousted from The Temptations, in 1988, for drugs, by King Berry Gordy)
WALK AWAY FROM LOVE
JIMMY RUFFIN
MY WHOLE WORLD ENDED (THE MOMENT YOU LEFT ME)
SHANICE
I LOVE YOUR SMILE
T. G. SHEPARD
DEVIL IN THE BOTTLE
TRYING TO BEAT THE MORNING HOME
VALERIE SIMPSON
SILLY WASN'T I
THE POINTER SISTERS
Members:
Original professional name: The Domingoes
Who "discovered" them: Harvey Fuqua.
Labels: Tri-Phi (sold to Motown in 1963), Motown, Atlantic
The Spinners was one of the great lost soul group of Motown Records. After toiling under the shadows of the labels biggest hitmakers, the Spinners signed with Atlantic in 1972 (on the recommendation of Aretha Franklin and Dionne Warwick). But not before giving Motown a taste of what they were going to miss. Singing as if they were giving Berry Gordy a scolding for treating them like second-hand citizens, "It's A Shame," arranged, written and produced by Stevie Wonder was the springboard that the group needed. While at Motown, they worked as road managers and chaperones for the Supremes and the Marvelettes and the Vandellas; took inventory in the Motown shipping department, drove the Temptations around Detroit and even picked up the Jackson 5 at Metro Airport. In between, they would slip in a few recordings but the material they were given were hand-me-downs.
I'LL ALWAYS LOVE YOU
IT'S A SHAME
TOGETHER WE CAN MAKE SUCH SWEET MUSIC
EDWIN STARR
25 MILES
WAR
SYRETTA
WITH YOU I'M BORN AGAIN - w/BILLY PRESTON
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