The Miracles – Shop Around / Who's Lovin You

The "Detroit Mix" has Berry Gordy playing piano on the recording.

Some copies of this Canadian pressing were pressed with an alternate take of "Shop Around"; not the "hit" version pressed for the United States. There are also white label promotional copies, distributed only in Detroit, of the alternate take on the Tamla "stripes" label.

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here's the deal on "Shop Around"...there are 3 recorded versions of "Shop Around".

at the original session they recorded 2 versions 55518-A1 and 55518-A2. Gordy decided to press the A-2 version first but right after the records came back he changed his mind and decided to switch to the A-1 version, now since it took a couple weeks to print new labels they just pressed the A-1 using the labels printed with the 55518-A2 master number on them, labels were ordered for the A-1 version but these were only used for promos.

after having both versions pressed up and getting from some DJ's, he knew he had a hit if he could re-record it with a different arrangment, so he called everyone back in for a 2nd session and they recorded the "HIT" version numbered L-1....once the record took off Gordy decided to press some copies at Columbia's LA plant and that's where the ZTSC copies come from, now on some of those the name Gordy in the writers credits was mis-spelled as Gordt.

on re-issues there were mistakes made of using the original stamper of the A-2 version because new employees at the pressing plant were only matching the stamper to the labels not knowing it was wrong, also in Canada the only version that was ever issued during the original release date was the A-1 version.

when Gordy got the L-1 back from the plant he drove all around Detroit trying to trade the "HIT" version copies for the 2 earlier versions.