icehockeyboy
30-09-2012, 22:28
Unless you are into Northern soul and Motown, the name Frank Wilson may not mean anything to you, and if it does, you may as well stop reading now as I will only be telling you stuff you already know.
Pastor Frank Wilson was a major Motown song writer and producer, take a look at your Motown stuff and see how many times his name is there, either as a composer or producer.
But it was his self composed song from 1965 that most people know him from, possibly because at the last moment he decided he didn't want to be a singer, and had the record pulled, except a couple, maybe one or two more were retrieved, and sent to the Motown vaults.
A number of years after, one or two copies of the song emerged, and would grow in value, firstly having been played at a major Northern soul event in the early 70's, and then changing hands for the price of a second hand small car of the day.
A friend of mine was one of the owners, a guy called Kev Roberts, who was one of the original Wigan Casino DJ's, who by coincidence traded it off another mate of mine, a local DJ called Jonathon Woodliffe for a load of white label jazz funk type records, valued at about £300.
Kev held on to it for a while, but the temptation of being offered £5000 for it was too good to turn down, especially as he thought its value would not go higher.
Kev was wrong, and a few years later it sold for £15.000.00!
This was a world record, at least at the time, but again, a few years later it went to auction again, this time selling for over £26.000.00!!!
Although according to Kev Roberts, he doesn't believe it did sell, as no one has come forward and said "I bought it"
Oh, the song is called "Do I Love You? (Indeed I Do)" and it was actually, possibly sadly used as part of a TV campaign for KFC, so you probably are aware of it.
And just for our friends here who are into this kind of music.......KTF!
Pastor Frank Wilson was a major Motown song writer and producer, take a look at your Motown stuff and see how many times his name is there, either as a composer or producer.
But it was his self composed song from 1965 that most people know him from, possibly because at the last moment he decided he didn't want to be a singer, and had the record pulled, except a couple, maybe one or two more were retrieved, and sent to the Motown vaults.
A number of years after, one or two copies of the song emerged, and would grow in value, firstly having been played at a major Northern soul event in the early 70's, and then changing hands for the price of a second hand small car of the day.
A friend of mine was one of the owners, a guy called Kev Roberts, who was one of the original Wigan Casino DJ's, who by coincidence traded it off another mate of mine, a local DJ called Jonathon Woodliffe for a load of white label jazz funk type records, valued at about £300.
Kev held on to it for a while, but the temptation of being offered £5000 for it was too good to turn down, especially as he thought its value would not go higher.
Kev was wrong, and a few years later it sold for £15.000.00!
This was a world record, at least at the time, but again, a few years later it went to auction again, this time selling for over £26.000.00!!!
Although according to Kev Roberts, he doesn't believe it did sell, as no one has come forward and said "I bought it"
Oh, the song is called "Do I Love You? (Indeed I Do)" and it was actually, possibly sadly used as part of a TV campaign for KFC, so you probably are aware of it.
And just for our friends here who are into this kind of music.......KTF!