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  Cool Ju (cool_ju) 4-Laureate Username: cool_ju Post Number: 75 Registered: 4-2004 Posted From: 205.188.116.139 |
Wow, didn't know that several albums were issued under this imprint, including The Four Tops' "Breaking Through." Guess that one may be worth a little bit to a collector. | ||
Ron Murphy (ron_murphy) 4-Laureate Username: ron_murphy Post Number: 120 Registered: 4-2004 Posted From: 68.42.90.140 |
The Four Tops album on Workshop Jazz was never officialy released and only a handfull of copies have ever been found...however the album was issued on the Motown lost and found series a few years ago with some additional tracks. recorded in 1963 at Hitsville and Motown's Graystone Ballroom studios. | ||
Charise (mistrivia1) 5-Doyen Username: mistrivia1 Post Number: 368 Registered: 4-2004 Posted From: 198.81.26.46 |
Cool Ju, go to www.gemm.com, there are several on cd there.  After you type in Four Tops, it will give you a listing for a letter the title is under. | ||
Charise (mistrivia1) 5-Doyen Username: mistrivia1 Post Number: 369 Registered: 4-2004 Posted From: 198.81.26.46 |
ROn, thanks for the extra info. | ||
Jim G (jim_g) 2-Debutant Username: jim_g Post Number: 23 Registered: 4-2004 Posted From: 152.163.252.200 |
http://www.bsnpubs.com/worksho p.html Here's a link to a Workshop Jazz Discography. Gordy named his label after Ed Love's Jazz Workshop weekly sessions. Ed held them at Mr. Kelly's and other venues around town. | ||
Cool Ju (cool_ju) 4-Laureate Username: cool_ju Post Number: 76 Registered: 4-2004 Posted From: 205.188.116.139 |
I never knew the label issued any 12"'s. Guess I should be digging deeper in the books! | ||
Cool Ju (cool_ju) 4-Laureate Username: cool_ju Post Number: 77 Registered: 4-2004 Posted From: 205.188.116.139 |
Looked at the inner sleeve of the "Heatwave" LP and saw the covers of 6-8 WS LP's. Learn something new everyday! | ||
mike s (mike_s) 4-Laureate Username: mike_s Post Number: 126 Registered: 4-2004 Posted From: 195.93.33.10 |
Workshop only lasted about nine months from late 63 to late summer 64. It looks like 12 albums were actually released although the numbering went from 202 to 220. Earl Washington, Johnny Griffith, George Bohannon, Paula Greer, Dave Hamilton were among the artists as well as Pepper Adams. Herbie Williams (The Soul and Sound of.....)also featured on one release - presume the same guy who produced some great Northern Soul favourites later. | ||
mike s (mike_s) 4-Laureate Username: mike_s Post Number: 128 Registered: 4-2004 Posted From: 195.93.33.10 |
Correction- Workshop lasted a year longer than I originally wrote - from late 62 to mid 64, about 21 months. | ||
kh (keith_hughes) 1-Arriviste Username: keith_hughes Post Number: 4 Registered: 4-2004 Posted From: 81.76.57.186 |
I doubt the 4 Tops album was ever even completed, let alone issued. Some rundown acetates were made from the raw recordings, which survived by chance, and were copied to cassette and started down the long and winding collectors' road in the late seventies ... compare and contrast (as they used to say in school exams) with the Beans Bowles Workshop album. This was finished, scheduled, masters pressed (RCA master numbers exist as proof) - then pulled. Nary a note of it has ever been heard outside Motown, I dare say. | ||
Raymond Ennifer (benlynx) 2-Debutant Username: benlynx Post Number: 18 Registered: 8-2004 Posted From: 195.92.168.167 |
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Raymond Ennifer (benlynx) 2-Debutant Username: benlynx Post Number: 20 Registered: 8-2004 Posted From: 195.92.168.167 |
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John Lester (theboyfromxtown) 4-Laureate Username: theboyfromxtown Post Number: 131 Registered: 4-2004 Posted From: 62.49.61.57 |
Nice......very nice indeed.. | ||
Raymond Ennifer (benlynx) 2-Debutant Username: benlynx Post Number: 22 Registered: 8-2004 Posted From: 195.92.168.167 |
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Bob Olhsson (bob_olhsson) 1-Arriviste Username: bob_olhsson Post Number: 10 Registered: 4-2004 Posted From: 209.247.222.115 |
I think it's fair to say most of us at Motown in Detroit were real jazz fans. I started soon after the plug had been pulled on Workshop for financial reasons. It was something we all wanted but BG didn't want to release records that couldn't pay their own way, at least with our sales and promotion team. We had another non-pop music label called Black Forum which was a wonderful spoken word series that we are all very proud of. | ||
Funk Timo (funk_timo) 2-Debutant Username: funk_timo Post Number: 16 Registered: 4-2004 Posted From: 195.197.151.165 |
Hi! Is that Johnny Griffith album or any of his solo material available on CD? I would be very interested. -Funk Timo | ||
Cool Ju (cool_ju) 4-Laureate Username: cool_ju Post Number: 88 Registered: 4-2004 Posted From: 64.12.116.138 |
I see they had a few different logos. |
