Talk:Edwin Starr

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Freddy, I defer to you on the question of whether The Temptations' version of "War" was released on single. I do know that influential Detroit-area radio station CKLW played it in March 1970 amid its otherwise purely singles format. It's quite possible that an ambivalent Motown label had slipped them a white-label 7-inch ...

I wrote the War (song) article. The Tempts' version was supposed to be released as a single (Motown recvieved hundreds of requests for its release), but was not because Berry Gordy didn't want his top-selling adult male act to make any strong plotical statements. So, the solution was to rerecord the song, and release the cover, which Edwin Starr stepped up to do.

I have the official Motown discography of Temptations singles from 1958 to 2000 (I bought that $70 Emperors of Soul box set and Otis Williams' book; the list is the same in both). There was never an official single release, but Otis says that a 1969 song from their album Puzzle People, "Message From a Black Man", was played often on the radio even though Motown (again) refused to release it as a single (that LP's only singles were "Don't Let the Joneses Get You Down" and "I Can't Get Next to You". The same thing likely happened in this case: the DJs just spun the Temptations' "War" off of the Psychedelic Shack LP. The date you gave of March 1970 adds up, because that is when the Psychedelic Shack album was released. The only two official Temptations singles released during this period were "Psychedelic Shack" (December 1969) and "Ball of Confusion (That's What the World is Today)" (May 1970).

A similar situation happened with Marvin Gaye's 1968 album In the Groove, which is how his version of "I Heard It Through the Grapevine" became the biggest Motown hit of the 1960s: radio DJs repeated played it off of the LP, forcing its release as a single. --FuriousFreddy 16:17, 25 June 2005

Stop her on Sight (SOS) is listed here http://www.everyhit.com/retros/index.php?page=rchart&y1=1966&m1=06&day1=2&y2=1966&m2=06&day2=2&sent=1 as in the British charts in June 1966, not 1968. Jatrius (talk) 22:31, 1 February 2008 (UTC)

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Date of moving to UK

The article (without a reference) says he moved to England in 1973. But the Guardian obituary used as a reference says he moved to the West Midlands in 1983. Does that mean he had moved to another area of the UK before that time, or that he just moved to the West Midlands in 1983? Does anyone have a definitive answer? G-13114 (talk) 23:19, 19 February 2021 (UTC)