JACKIE WILSON r&b soul 45 Let George Do It rare Motown related Berry Gordy Jr
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JACKIE WILSON MEGA RARE DETROIT MOTOWN / BARRY GORDY PRIVATE RELEASED R&B ROCKER.
LABEL : RCA CUSTOM LABEL
TITLES : LET GEORGE DO IT / B/W SAME
CONDITION : VG
COMMENT : RARE DETROIT 45
This is one of the rarest Motown related songs ever. It’s a song called “Let George Do It” and was written by Motown Founder Berry Gordy and his lifelong friend and early writing partner Billy Davis to support the 1958 campaign of George H. Edwards for his re-election bid for the Michigan House of Representatives. George was married to Berry’s sister Esther Gordy Edwards. Basically, it’s a campaign song…Berry’s way of helping his brother-in-law out. I remember his sister Esther telling the story once of Berry coming in the room in a panic asking “where is George?…where is George?”. She told him he was not home and was at church. He then shouted…”that’s it…thanks”. She had no idea what that meant, but at the time he was stuck with the lyrics and needed a line. When she told him George was at church, Berry came up with the line in the song…”George H. Edwards is a church going man”. The rest is history.
What makes this so rare is that Berry, then a writer for Jackie Wilson, got Jackie to record the vocal for the song…and boy did he do it in classic Jackie Wilson style. This record was NEVER intended to be pressed for sale. It was pressed as 45’s and 78’s with a blank white label in extremely small quantities and was distributed around town to be put in area jukeboxes and clubs to bring awareness to the campaign. The song started to catch on and become somewhat of a local hit, so being the enterprising man he was, Berry Gordy stamped the remaining copies he had left with a red stamp that read “Let George Do It” on the top with the words “Vocalist-Jackie Wilson” on the side and song credits on the bottom.
GRADING IS AS FOLLOWS:
MINT ...PERFECT RECORD, CLEAN GLOSS, NO MARKS, BEAUTIFUL
IN EVERY WAY. VERY FEW RECORDS WILL MAKE MINT.
MINT- ....VERY CLEAN ONLY LIGHT MARKS... VERY OFTEN A GREAT
RECORD FOR MOST COLLECTORS.
VG+ ......LIGHT SCRATCHES ONLY, SHOULD PLAY AND LOOK VERY
NICE WITH MINIMAL SURFACE NOISE.
VG ....STILL A NICE RECORD,LOOKS USED, LIGHT SCRATCHES
NO GOUGES, STILL PLAYS WELL, SOME SURFACE NOISE.
VG- ......A BIT ROUGH BUT WILL PLAY OK, FILLS THE COLLECTION.
G ....PLAYS ROUGH, HAS MULTIPLE SCRATCHES.
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IF YOU HAVE ANY PROBLEMS WITH THE RECORD PLEASE CONTACT ME BEFORE LEAVING A FEEDBACK! .............................................THANK YOU
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