The Velvelettes - Needle In A Haystack

The Velvelettes
Needle In A Haystack / I'm The Exception To The Rule
Tamla Motown TMG 806 (1972)

A 1972 reissue of two classic tracks from The Velvelettes.

Needle In A Haystack was released in the UK in 1964 on the Stateside label. It then appeared as the flip side to the 1967 Tamla Motown release, He Was Really Saying Something (TMG 595). 

I'm The Exception To The Rule was first released in the UK as the flip side to the Tamla Motown single Lonely Lonely Girl Am I (TMG 521) in 1965.

The Velvelettes were formed in in 1961 by Bertha Barbee-McNeal and Mildred Gill Arbor, both students at Western Michigan University. Mildred recruited her younger sister Carolyn (also known as Cal), who was in 9th grade, and Cal's friend Betty Kelly, a junior in high school. Bertha recruited her cousin Norma Barbee, a freshman at Flint Junior College. Cal was chosen as the group's lead singer 

The group was signed to Motown in 1962 and started recording in January 1963. A few singles were released in 1963 but in 1964 Needle In A Haystack became their breakthrough single, released in the US on the IPG record label and as said on Stateside in the UK.

During the 1960s they had 5 UK single releases and managed reasonable chart success however the decision was made  to end the group in 1969.  The group reunited in 1984, re-recorded many of their original hits  and toured frequently through to the 2000s.

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