Fern Bledsoe -- Singer & Motown Secretary

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The Shirley Lawson 45 was released in the US on Backbeat.
Unfortunately, Duke / Peacock / Backbeat put little or no background info on their 45 releases, so no producer / arranger details are shown ...[[1) I guess her "The Star / One More Chance" tracks were cut in Detroit with someone like Andre Williams being involved. Motown musician Johnny Griffith co-wrote one of the songs [[the other being assigned to [[2) Don Malone aka Don Robey as most Duke recorded songs were).

[[1) Joe Hunter had a large, contracted, production agreement with Duke/Peacock/Backbeat/Sure Shot's Don Robey in 1965, in which he produced and recorded some of Robey's Texas-based artists in Detroit [[mostly at United Sound), using Detroit production people and musicians, and also traveled to Houston [[along with producers and some Detroit-based singers, and musicians) to use Robey's facilities, and to record in Houston, but also produce some of Robey's Houston-based artists, and sometimes using Texas-based musicians, arrangers, and production people. Andre Williams worked on his Robey projects, as did other Detroit Producers. Hunter used some Motown "moonlighters", other Motown part-time freelancers, and other Detroit-based non-Motown production people.

[[2) "D. Malone stood for "Deadric Malone", which was Robey's songwriting and producer pseudonym [[alias), which was used on hundreds of his credits. I can't recall him using the pseudonym, "Don Malone".