Prodigal was active from 1974 to 1978. Motown purchased the Detroit based record company and
used the label essentially as a continuation of the Rare Earth label. The first Prodigal label was yellow
with red printing, "Prodigal" above the center hole with a silhouette of a bull on each side. This label
originated with the independent company. When Motown bought the company they continued to use
this label for some issues. The second Prodigal label was black with silver print. "PRODIGAL" in black
on a curved white oval. Behind the logo was a stylized 5 color rainbow.
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PRODIGAL ALBUM DISCOGRAPHY
Number - Title - Artist [Release Date] (Chart) Contents
PLP-10007 - Ronnie McNeir - Ronnie McNeir [1975] For Your Love/Since I Don't Have
Your Love/Now She's Gone/I'm Your Lover/Baby Come Back Home//Saggaitarian Affair/You Are
Everything/Spirit Of Love/Nothin' But A Heartache/Wendy Is Gone/Give Me A Sign
PLP-10008 - With a Little Help from My Friends - Shirley Alston & Others [1975] I Only
Have
Eyes For You [with Flamingos] (S)/Save The Last Dance For Me [with Drifters] (S)/Our Day Will Come
[with
Romantics] (S)/1,000 Miles Away-Daddy's Home [with Shep & Limelites] (S)/In The Still Of The Night
[with 5
Satins] (S)//Where Or When [with Belmonts] (S)/Sincerely [with Danny & Juniors] (S)/Silhouettes [with
Herman's
Hermits] (S)/I Hear Those Church Bells Ringing-Chapel Of Love [with Lala Brooks] (S)/I Do Love You
(S)/I'd
Rather Not Be Loving You (S)
PLP-10009 - Second Generation - Gaylord & Holiday [1975] (2-76, #180) Eh!
Cumpari/The Little
Shoemaker/Sempre Tu/Dio Como Ti Amo/From The Vine Came The Grape//To The Door Of The Sun
(Alle Porta
Del Sole)/Dormi, Dormi, Dormi/Theme From The Godfather (Speak Softly Love)/Tell Me You're
Mine/Italian
Wedding Song/I Will Never Pass This Way Again
P6-10010S1 - Dancers, Romacers, Dreamers & Schemers - Michael Quatro [6/76]
Children Of
Tomorrow/Stripper/One By One/Rollerbach/Circus//Ancient Ones/Pure Chopin/Adagio/Touch of Class
P6-10011S1 - Kathe Green - Kathe Green [8/76] Beautiful Changes/Help Me Sing My
Song/Color
World/First Thing In The Morning/Love City//Solo Ride/Alone Again And Free/What Kind Of Man Are
You/And
So You Go
P6-10012S1 - Fantacy Hill - Fantacy Hill [8/76] Minna Ha Ha/What Cha Gonna Do If I
Give It To
You/Sweet Sweet Surrender/Twenty-Five Miles/Joy To Be With//You're Welcome Stop On By/Stay With
Me/Never In My Life/I Wish It Would Rain/I Can't Quit Your Love
P6-10013 - Diggin' It - Dunn & Rubini [9/76] Diggin' It/Imaginary Girl/Love Is
Blind/Two/Words Could Never Say//I'm Blue/Back From The Fire/Just Keep Laughin'/You Gotta Give It
To Me/Turn On The Radio/You Got To Give It To Me (Reprise)
P6-10014 - Tattoo - Tattoo [9/76] What Did He Do/Give It To Ya' Easy/Send A Ship/I Still
Want You/Absolutely Love//It's Cold Outside/Yer Stale/Lonely Saturday Night/This Is Your City/The
Highway Calls My Name
P6-10015 - Charlene - Charlene [11/76] Spine of cover lists artist as "Charlene Duncan."
It Ain't Easy Comin' Down/I've Never Been To
Me (with
spoken bridge)/Rings/Somewhere In My Life/I Want To Come Back As A Song//Hey Mama/I Love Every
Little
Thing About You/It's Really Nice To Be In Love Again/Shake A Hand/On My Way To You
P6-10016S1 - Gettin' Ready - Michael Quatro [1/77] Hollywood (Hallucination)/It's Only A
Love
Song/Trouble In Paradise/Last Man Alive//Get You Ready For Love/Detroit City Blues/I'm
Winning/Rockin' All
Night Long/Wild One
P6-10017S1 - Class Reunion - Delaney Bramlett [2/77] Locked Up In
Alabama/Everyday's A
Holiday/I Wish It Would Rain/It's A Touchy Situation/You Can't Measure My Love//I Think I Got
It/Invitation To
A Heartbreak/For Old Time's Sake/Who You Gonna Blame It On/You Were The Light
P6-10018 - Songs of Love - Charlene [5/77] Repackage of P6-10015, with "Freddie"
replacing "Shake a Hand" and the songs re-sequenced. Also, there is no spoken bridge in the song "I've
Never Been To Me." It Ain't Easy Comin' Down/I've Never Been To Me/Rings/Somewhere In My
Life/Hey Mama//Freddie/I Love Every Little Thing About You/It's Really Nice To Be in Love Again/I Want
To Come Back As A Song/On My Way To You
P6-10019S1 - Rarearth - Rare Earth [7/77] (10-77, #187) Love Has Lifted Me/Is Your
Teacher
Cool?/Foot Loose And Fancy Free/When I Write//Share My Love/Tin Can People/I Really Love
You/Crazy Love
Ah Dunno
P6-10020 - I Sing My Songs for You - Phillip Jarrell [9/77] 'Til I Found You/Wings Of
Time/Woodstock Woman/Too Many Saturday Nights/I'm Dyin'//I Can Shine/Torn Between Two
Lovers/Manhattan Lady/Pretty Lady/Only You
P-10021 - [Unissued]
P7-10022 - First Step - Fantacy Hill [1/78] Aphrodite/Lucy Lucy/There's A Light/So Far
So Good/Red-Headed Woman//Any Way You Wanna//Sanity Baby/Lonely Bluebird/Your Mama/Stay
With Me
P-10023 - Born Again - Phil Cordell [Unissued]
P7-10024 - Feelin' Fresh - Fresh [1/78] Just How Does It Feel/Whatever Happened To
Rock And Roll/Feelin' Fresh/Hey Kid//Everybody's Got Something To Say/Don't Let
Down/Preparation/Let Yourself Go
P7-10025R1 - Band Together - Rare Earth [4/78] (6-78, #156) Warm Ride/You/Love Is
What You
Get (If Love Is What You Give Me)/Love Do Me Right/Dreamer//Maybe The Magic/Love Music/Rock 'N'
Roll
Man/Mota Molata
P7-10026 - Round One - Friendly Enemies [4/78] Soul In Distress/Too Hot To
Handle/Dark Eyes/The Words (I Love You)//Steal Your Love/Love At First Sight/Baby It's
Me/Driftin'/Young Boy
P7-10027R1 - Grand Slam - Rare Earth [9/78] My Eyes Only/Save Me Save Me/When A
Man
Loves A Woman/I Heard It Through The Grapevine//You Got My Love/I Wish It Would Rain/I Can Feel
My Love
Risin' (From Future Shock And Beyond)/Stop Her On Sight (S.O.S.)/Mighty Good Love
P7-10028 - Omniverse - Fresh [10/78] Hold On I'm Coming/Love Me Or Leave Me/You
Never Cared/Bony Moronie/Hard Dock In Hanover/When The Winter Comes//Who'll Be The
Master/Space/It's Alright/Alright By Me
P7-10029R1 - Meatloaf Featuring Stoney and Meatloaf - Stoney & Meatloaf [10/78]
Jimmy Bell
(S)/She Waits By The Window (S)/Stone Heart (S)/Who Is The Leader Of The People (S)//Kiss Me
Again
(S)/Sunshine (Where's Heaven) (S)/Jessica White (S)/Lady Be Mine (S)/Everything Under The Sun (S)
P7-10030R1 - Stylus - Stylus [10/78] Discover Your Life/Bushwalkin'/Look At
Me/Sweetness/Work Out Fine//Funky Music/Got To Be/Kissin'/Natural Feeling/Hangin'
Thanks to Shawn Collins.
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