Motown/Stax/Chess/Fortune/Sun Records/Loma/Black Patti/Atlantic/London/Decca/RCA/Philles and so many other great labels..Thanks to Aretha,Sam Cooke,James Brown,Nina Simone,Elvis Presley,Roy Orbison,Neil Young,Procul Harem,Dusty Springfield,Petula Clarke,Son House,Teddy Pendergrass,Rosetta Tharpe,Billie Holiday,Luther Vandross,Al Green,B.B.King,Ella Fitzgerald,Louis Armstrong,The Beatles,John Lennon and so many others who brought so much joy and happiness to my life through their music...

Motown,in terms of Music has got to be the love of my life...Back in 1963 and 8 years old was the first time I got hooked on the music of Motown..I remember havin this second hand radio and this particular day I was tuned into the national radio station and for the first time in my life I heard the DJ talk about this 'New Music' they were calling 'The Sound of Young America'..For the first time in my life I heard about this place called 'Detroit-Motor City'..and then the music played..Boy I was hooked..I knew something big was goin on and headin my way and yes Indeedy..Motown Music had arrived...I have never looked back since..Motown is The Greatest Record Label in The World and I love it as much today as that day in '63' when I first heard it..

Back in The 1960s and early 1970s I took every job goin as a kid in order I could buy Motown Albums and Records.Paper rounds before and after school,then working on a street breadvan after the evening paper-round til 10pm at night,workin in the local bakery scrubbin baking trays til my fingers were red raw knee deep in snow every Saturday & Sunday morning.I even baked cakes at home and sold them to the neighbours to earn extra cash-boy I can tell you they were bad cakes.At the end of each week I took the money I had earned along to the local record store and paid weekly all I had earned towards the albums and records the store owner had put to one side for me.By the time I had paid for each item it had usually gone in and out the charts but did I care,you bet I did,nt.I grabbed them off the shop owner like they were gold dust, ran home and played them non stop.Wow I remember the feelin well.Yeh it was tough goin thinkin back but well worth the hard graft..'See ya next Sat Mr Record Shop Owner'I used to shout as I ran out of the shop with my treasures!