  Terryh Member Username: Terryh Post Number: 592 Registered: 11-2006 |
13801 West Eight mile rd. I picked up Livin Proof record album at the Record Collector in Ferndale. The 'hit' on the record is a song titled "You and I", it has that funky seventies soul sound. It came out in 78? Are any of you familiar with ju-par and the artists? Besides Fortune Records and Motown what other local labels were- are there? | ||
Terryh Member Username: Terryh Post Number: 593 Registered: 11-2006 |
Are any of you familiar with the group Livin'Proof? | ||
Karl_jr Member Username: Karl_jr Post Number: 177 Registered: 06-2007 |
try posting on soulful detroit if you don't get a hit here. | ||
Dannyv Member Username: Dannyv Post Number: 58 Registered: 08-2007 |
http://www1.gemm.com/c/search. pl?field=ARTIST+OR+TITLE&wild= livin%27+proof&Go%21.x=16&Go%2 1.y=4 Try this link | ||
Soulhawk Member Username: Soulhawk Post Number: 325 Registered: 04-2004 |
TerryH, I am giving you my best advice; turn back NOW! I am a Detroit record addict, and I can tell you that there were hundreds of labels. If you start looking now, you will never stop. It will consume your life. I actually quit doing drugs and drinking to finance my record habit! | ||
Lowell Board Administrator Username: Lowell Post Number: 4367 Registered: 10-2003 |
The recording industry of sixties in Detroit similar was to the the web revolution of the nineties. Dropping prices of the equipment needed to record and mix records made it possible for small players to get into the game. The authorities on this era, all to be found on our sister site, www.SoulfulDetroit.com, tell of hundreds of labels as studios sprung up in basements, garages and storefronts, mostly clustered in the Grand River, Grand Blvd., Hamilton, Davidson quadrant. The success of Motown fed the frenzy and Detroit sat atop the pop culture world of music. Start with the 'Crown Jewel' tour on soulfuldetroit. | ||
Terryh Member Username: Terryh Post Number: 601 Registered: 11-2006 |
Great! great!great! Thank you very much. I picked up my first Fortune album-Fortune of hits featuring Noel Strong and the Diablos. Im going to register on the Fortune records site! | ||
56packman Member Username: 56packman Post Number: 1944 Registered: 12-2005 |
Is anyone here familiar with the Prescott label from Detroit? I know of one very obscure LP on Prescott from 1957, and recently ran across a record of "Wixie" from WXYZ TV on the same label. Anyone know more? | ||
Ed_golick Member Username: Ed_golick Post Number: 891 Registered: 10-2003 |
56packman, Marv Welch told me that the Prescott label was created only for Wixie records and that it was named for the old PRescott telephone exchange. Both 45 an 78 RPM Wixie records were pressed. What are the songs on your Wixie record? I'm missing a couple of them. What artist is on the LP? | ||
56packman Member Username: 56packman Post Number: 1946 Registered: 12-2005 |
Ed-G, my Prescott album is not a Wixie record, it is "Ed Gress plays the Detroit Fox" (theater) Wurlitzer Organ. LP, 1957. It had always been assumed that Ed self-produced the album, perhaps Prescott did some contract pressing/production work to pay the bills. | ||
Fury13 Member Username: Fury13 Post Number: 3438 Registered: 10-2003 |
Terryh, Fortune is the great lost legendary label of Detroit. And Nolan Strong... he shoulda had Smokey Robinson's career... |
