By Lynn Bruce (65.60.200.153) on Monday, January 13, 2003 - 03:24 pm:

Mike& everyone else,I also would like to up-grade my drum-set as it,s really getting old. I also produce authentic sounding Detroit sounds.I would like to get started on a new project called "playing oldies by an old musician that played the same songs when they hits originaly"

As Prophet Jones once said,I don,t want to hear those coins,I want that soft folding money.
Thanking you in advance,
Slainte va,Lynn

By SisDetroit (68.42.209.170) on Monday, January 13, 2003 - 03:32 pm:

I would like a round trip ticket for two to NY, and two tickets to the Grammies to see the Funk Brother's accept their Grammy award.

Additionally, I would like a round trip ticket to California and two tickets to the Oscars.

Finally, my brother would like a studio complete with equipment, with several signed NY contract deals.

By KevGo (64.115.26.80) on Monday, January 13, 2003 - 03:34 pm:

SisDetroit:
Your brother's gonna have to get past me for the NY record deals! LOL!
Kevin Goins - KevGo

By FrankM (217.43.76.202) on Monday, January 13, 2003 - 03:42 pm:

Mike there already is a Motorcity records company based in England which re recorded a whole load of tracks along with some new ones using the original Motown arists.> I understand the company may be defunct but the catalogue has been re issued several times on different labels. This is what Martha Reeves has to say about the company.

"As for the Motorcity stuff, I have a great problem with that organization period. I have a lot of the output from that place. Martha's "Step Into My Shoes" is a gem, and the Vandellas come in loud and clear. I love background harmonies. I don't want to have to strain to hear the background singers (ala "Diana Ross And The Supremes").

But Martha told me as a book signing for her autobiography that Motorcity Records ripped everyone off. Nobody got any royalties. I was shocked. I couldn't help but exclaim, "Oh no! Not again!" She explained that too many of the artists signed to Motorcity were too sick to work (Mary Wells, Wanda Rogers), but the owner was a real snake charmer and that resulted in tons of
tracks being recorded, alot which are mediocre. So I stopped searching for
Motorcity recordings. I still have my favorites, but that whole setup
cheating those poor people. And I'm firmly against that!" www.soul-patrol.com/soul/martha.htm


FrankM

By SisDetroit (68.42.209.170) on Monday, January 13, 2003 - 03:46 pm:

KevGo - No fair, you are already there, have the contacts, and have the advantage.

By Dreamer (64.236.243.31) on Monday, January 13, 2003 - 03:47 pm:

Is this a Dear Santa Thread?
I can't tell.....

By RD (65.132.78.35) on Monday, January 13, 2003 - 03:56 pm:

I'd like one of them Lexus Convertibles, anybody want to contribute to the cause?

By soulie dave (62.254.64.5) on Monday, January 13, 2003 - 04:41 pm:

Motorcity Records in the UK searching out and getting 60's soul artist's back into the studio many years after they originally recorded maybe seemed like a good idea. Particularly for the artist's concerned. A chance to make a little money when some of them possibly thought they would never have gotten the chance again.

I bought one Motorcity compilation and hated it. Drum machines on classic Detroit tracks, Yuk.

Records like these are called "taylor mades" on the Northern Soul scene and are not generally liked. Made to sound like classic 60's dance records, but most of them sound exactly like what they are. Crap!

By larry (216.23.183.2) on Monday, January 13, 2003 - 06:25 pm:

soulie dave,

Drum machines ehh? Just thinking of it has started a slow-moving hemrrhoid.

There's alot of us who were really into the 80's music to know see how putrid it was with Electronic Drums.

By Ralph Terrana (ralph) (209.240.198.62) on Monday, January 13, 2003 - 07:03 pm:

Sorry Mike,
I had to delete your posting. The purpose of Soulful Detroit is to study and discuss the music of Motown and it's contemporaries. We are not in the promotions business. We wish you all the luck in your new venture.
Ralph Terrana

By Ralph Terrana (ralph) (209.240.198.62) on Monday, January 13, 2003 - 07:06 pm:

P.S. The rest of you guys are way too funny. You had me laughing my a.. off.

By SteveS (209.219.207.3) on Monday, January 13, 2003 - 07:15 pm:

Great Ralph, now please go over to the ERRRGGGH thread and go nuts and have a delete-a-thon. We're all gonna hate ourselves in the morning.

By Ralph Terrana (ralph) (209.240.198.62) on Monday, January 13, 2003 - 07:19 pm:

Steve,
I just posted to you on that thread. Go check it out.

By KevGo (64.115.26.80) on Tuesday, January 14, 2003 - 05:16 pm:

SisDetroit:
Hey, monopolies & advantages helped a certain fellow Detroiter, didn't they?
Kevin Goins - KevGo

By SisDetroit (68.42.209.170) on Tuesday, January 14, 2003 - 05:30 pm:

KevGo - You are right again. So, after you make your contacts, be sure to hire "you know who" to manage your money affairs. After you buy up all the little studios, would you call me to work as a receptionist, let me sing background on some of your demos, then write a song for me, and discover me? And then you can monopolize the industry in NY. Can I be second in charge?

By Vandelron (152.163.195.212) on Sunday, February 09, 2003 - 08:26 pm:

Brenda Holloway has said she felt very positively about her experience with Motor City records and the man did spend a fortune(I believe he ended up motgaging his home), though I agree the quality was often sub-par.

By rotweillerfan (65.238.154.173) on Tuesday, March 11, 2003 - 03:13 pm:

I must admit I liked some of the Motorcity recordings. I think Syreeta's "I'm Born Again With You" is awesome. These recordings introducted me to some singers I had never heard of, like Hattie Littles. Now there's an intersting voice. At least SOMEONE got the Andantes and Sisters Love together again. No one else has. Yes, some of the recordings are sub, but, I've heard a lot of Motown and all the other "famous" lables crank out some really poor things. I guess one picks and chooses.

By Randy Russi (169.139.180.100) on Tuesday, March 11, 2003 - 03:34 pm:

I did not like any of the Motor City recordings
and also heard what Martha was apparently talking
about (I may have had the same conversation with
her at some point), because Mary Wells had told
me she received a $2,000 royalty check that
bounced. But, musically, I thought those record-
ings were terrible.