Contours - Do You Love Me - Gordy 901 - 1962 Vinyl LP - Script Labels Motown
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Description
Contours
Do You Love Me
Gordy 901
Original 1962 US pressing of The Contours' "Do You Love Me " LP on the Gordy label. Original early-sixties "Script" logo on labels.
Grading:
Sleeve: VG Solid, shelf-wear, no splits, legible spine
Vinyl: VG Sounds great, but has a few scattered light background crackles
Notes:
Founded in 1959, The Contours were one of the earliest singing groups signed to Motown Records. Originally called The Blenders in their native Detroit, they eventually changed their name to "The Contours". In the fall of 1960, the group auditioned for Berry Gordy's Motown Records. Gordy turned the act down, prompting the group to pay a visit to the home of Johnson's cousin, R&B star and Gordy associate Jackie Wilson. Wilson in turn got the Contours a second audition with Gordy, at which they sang the same songs they had at the first audition, the same way, and were signed to a seven-year contract.
The group's first single, "Whole Lotta' Woman," was released in January 1961 and failed to chart. In early 1962, Gordy had the Contours record "Do You Love Me," a composition allegedly originally meant for The Temptations. But, in a 2008 interview for MOJO Magazine, original Contour Joe Billingslea stated that this was not the case. In the article, Billingslea stated to author Phil Alexander that the song's author, Motown founder Berry Gordy, offered the song to the Contours first, only intending to give The Temptations the song after he saw that the Contours were having trouble with it. However, after practicing the tune again, Gordy gave the nod—and the song—to the Contours.
The resulting record, with its shouted lead vocals from Billy Gordon, hit #1 on Billboard's R&B chart and crossed over to #3 on the Hot 100 in 1962. It sold over one million copies, and was awarded a gold disc.
Although the Contours never quite repeated the extraordinary success of "Do You Love Me," they returned to the charts four times during 1963/64. In 1964, the majority of the founding members of the group all left Motown, but replacement members were soon recruited to fill the void. During this period, tracks recorded by both line-ups were being put together for a second album for Motown entitled The Contours: Can You Dance (Gordy 910), however, for unknown reasons, this album remains unreleased by Motown.
During the mid-1960s the Contours recorded several records which received R&B radio play, however they were considered secondary to Motown's major male vocal groups (Temptations, Four Tops, Miracles, etc.). The group's seven-year contract with Motown expired in 1967 and when lead singer Dennis Edwards was recruited to replace the departed David Ruffin as lead singer of The Temptations in mid-1968, the Contours disbanded.
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