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A good early Motown single was Come Into My Palace by Lee the Leopards. The Gordy Records single featured a hokey '50s bass intro and inspired wailing. Lee was Lee Henry Moore, and the Leopards, well, there was Prentiss Anderson and unknowns. Moore, Brian Holland, and William Stevenson composed the April 1962 release that the Supremes redid as a ballad; the Leopards' was an up-tempo novelty. Motown canned the Supremes' version for more than 25 years; Brenda, with sister, Patrice Holloway, waxed a duet version. Ironically, both sides of Lee and the Leopards' Gordy single, the flip was Trying to Make It, was leased to Laurie Records in 1963, quite odd for Motown to do this, it usually happened the other way around. They cut a Lee Moore tune on Fortune Records in 1964 entitled Don't Press Your Luck, undersided by What About Me. Fortune couldn't put the mighty Nolan Strong the Diablos over the top, so you know Lee the Leopards didn't have anything coming from the financially strapped label. KZ Records issued a tune or two and they possibly drop one-off singles on other small labels. ~ Andrew Hamilton, Rovi



 
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LEE & THE LEOPARDS - COME INTO MY PALACE [Laurie 3197] 1962
LEE & THE LEOPARDS " THE GYPSY SAID " K-ZEE RECORDS
Lee & the Leopards - Trying To Make It - 1962
Lee & the Leopards - Come Into My Palace - 1962
Lee & The Leopards - What About Me (Fortune 867) 1964
LEE & THE LEOPARDS - COME INTO MY PALACE - GORDY 7002 - 1962 / LAURIE 3197 - 1963
Lee & The Leopards “Come Into My Palace” 1962 Gordy Records
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