The same song with different titles written by Gene Redd, Rose Marie McCoy
and Jimmy Crosby gets a credit on The Inspirations version.
It came out first in 1996 by Shirley J. Scott as 'Goose Pimples' on
Gene Redd's short-lived Detroit label Stephanye label named after his
daughter. It is believed to be the Funk Brothers moonlighting on the backing
track.
The label only had three official releases although one record (Roy
Handy) got bootlegged on a counterfeit label and three other bootlegs,
totally unreleated to the label, appeared with the Stephanye imprint
(i.e. Golden World Strings bootleg of Checkerboard Squares 'Double
Cookin' (twice) and Richard Temple bootleg of Willie Hutch 'The
Duck'.
It was then released in 1967 by The Inspirations as 'Touch Me, Kiss Me, Hold
Me' on Shelby Singleton's Black Pearl label based in New York which he
set up after leaving Mercury. It was released twice on cat. no.
100 with different B sides and then as 102 and then again on 711 which I
suspect is a 70s repress.
Shirley J. Scott [1966] - Goose Pimples [Stephanye #STP 333]
The Inspirations [1967] - Touch Me, Hold Me, Kiss Me [Black Pearl #711]
I was looking at a post you did some time ago about Shirley J Scott's Goose Pimples. You show it on the paler green Stephanye label but what's the difference between that and the darker green label. ?? Any ideas .Cheers Jools 🎶🎵
ReplyDeleteIn answer to your question they are both the same. It's just that the image posted is a label scan from 45 Cat (https://www.45cat.com/record/stp333) which just happens to be paler than the one on Discogs. (https://www.discogs.com/master/795112-Shirley-J-Scott-Goose-Pimples-Lonely-Girl)
ReplyDeleteThere are 3 different scans of the green label and a white promo. the first 2 green ones look the same but the third doesn't have the 'dink' and the text layout is slightly different. The third (the same as on Discogs) looks like it's almost certainly styrene (and 'could' well be a 70s repress/bootleg for the UK Northern Soul scene) and the others possibly vinyl and are more aligned the only other couple of there releases on the label
You might find some more info here:
https://soulfuldetroit.com/archives/4472/4161.html?1057828675