Motown Treasures

A couple of years ago, I had high hopes of getting an Yvonne Fair CD released - we even had a suggested title: It Should Have Been Yvonne Fair.

A trawl of the Motown vaults threw up some unreleased (and, in some cases, unfinished) tracks - all of which were fabulous but there weren't enough of them to make a CD collection viable. Several of these have appeared on compilations of unreleased material.

I forget the name of the book but there was a (possibly 2 volume) tome listing released tracks by soul artists. It included some unreleased track titles, too. I copied down these titles by Yvonne Fair:-

FUNKY MONKEY
OH WHAT A GOOD MAN HE IS
I WILL STILL BE AROUND
WHEN THE WORDS FROM YOUR HEART GET CAUGHT
I CAN'T LET HIM GO
DANCING IN THE STREET
YOU
THEN WE CAN TRY AGAIN

They all date from 1968. The Dancing In The Street track ties up with the recently released version by Ivy Jo Hunter.

After It Should Have Been Me and the critical success of her first Motown album, Yvonne (in a Blues & Soul interview) mentioned that a follow-up was in production. It even had a title (A Real Funky Mother Trucker?) and, presumably, Yvonne was working with Norman Whitfield again. Does anyone know what was going to be on this album?

I'd like to try again to get an Yvonne CD considered.

Anyone have any more details that may help me in my quest?

SWI

A vaulted lp on Yvonne produced by Norman Whitfield, would be very interestimg , especially from that timeline. Correct me if I'm wrong but outside of Ain't no sunshine since you've been gone by Ross& Supremes on yheir lost set is the only vaulted track from Norman's Psychedelic/ funk period to see the light.

Kind reply from Andy Skurow. If anything had vocals before 1969, it would have been on the Motown Unreleased sets. Anything after 1970 would still be in the vaults.  Unfortunately, most of those tapes would take a lot of time and money to research. Lets revisit this in April or later in the year.

The best version of Ma was Rare Earth's. If Yvonne Fair has a vaulted version, I'll hold my judgement, because I can just hear her tearing that one up. Earthquake shake was a forgettable track by Undisputed Truth. I think Yvonne would give it the energy that it was lacking.

I like My Fatherless son too. I haven't played it in a while by the Four Tops, So now that its being mentioned as a possible missing vault track by Yvonne Fair , I'll have to revist it.

Eric, I will approach AS again.