If
you are a regular here then you may know I have featured June
Conquest before. In fact coincidentally the last time I posted a 45
of hers was exactly one year ago today. This may well be the last time I do
feature her as her recorded output was meagre. But it was certainly a
case of quality not quantity.
Here
she is on Curtis Mayfield's Curtom label, it's first ever release
from February 1968. Curtis would soon secure a national distribution
deal for the label with Buddah but this 45 predates that deal and
therefore it would have likely only got plays in the Chicago area.
The release number – 8543 – is an odd number to have on a maiden
release, it is thought it may have been the street number of the
label's address. The other catalog number on the label CT-68-001
would seem to indicate this was the first ever track laid down at
Curtom, the other side (the A side) bears CT-68-007. The only other
two local releases shown on 45cat bear the numbers CT-68-005 , 006 ,
008 and 009. CT-68-003 and 004 appear on the Thomas label (The
Amazers) as does CT-68-010 and 011 (Saxie Russell). I wonder what
happened to CT-68-002?
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