The Lucky Eleven label was formed in 1959 in Flint, Michigan by Otis Ellis and Chuck Slaughter. Ellis was owner of the Lucky Eleven nightclub there, and Slaughter was a country and western singer whose two-week gig at the club resulted in his forming a partnership with Ellis. In 1959, the Tennessee-born Slaughter was just out of the Air Force and had relocated to Flint, Michigan (in the greater Detroit area) to work in the General Motors plant there. He joined his cousin's country group, which appeared on Saturday mornings on Flint's WMRP radio as well as the usual store openings, weddings, etc.

After doing some recordings on the new label, Slaughter relocated to Tennessee until the mid-1960s, when he returned to run the label as General Manager. Although it had been a country label to this point, Lucky Eleven started recording some of the local rock bands, including Terry Knight and the Pack, Dick Wagner and the Bossmen, and the Jayhawkers, as well as doing bookings for other rock acts such as Question Mark and the Mysterians. They also continued with recording and booking country acts.

The label's most successful artists were Terry Knight and the Pack. Terry Knight (neé Richard Terrance Knapp) was a disc jockey with CKLW, a Windsor, Ontario, based station just across the border from Detroit. He talked a local group, the Jazz Masters, into letting him be their lead singer. At the time, the group was made up of Don Brewer on drums, Bob Caldwell on keyboards, Al Pippins on guitar, and Herm Jackson on bass. They changed the name of the group to "Terry Knight and the Pack" to sound more British. Jackson was drafter shortly thereafter and replaced by a local bassist, Mark Farner. Farner and Brewer later joined with the bassist from Question Mark & the Mysterians, Mel Schacher, to form Grand Funk Railroad, with Terry Knight as their manager.

Although Lucky Eleven put out many singles, including before and after the Cameo-Parkway distribution period, they put out few albums. The first Terry Knight and the Pack album was supervised by Otis Ellis. The label was green and yellow with a horseshoe design.

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Cover	Number - Title - Artist - [Release Date] (Chart) Contents
	SLE-8000 - Terry Knight and the Pack - Terry Knight and the Pack [1966] Stereo versions of this album, even with the stereo matrix number, have been reported to actually be mono. Numbers (E)/What's On Your Mind (E)/Where Do You Go (E)/You're A Better Man Than I (E)/Lovin' Kind (E)/The Shut-In (E)//Got Love (E)/A Change On The Way (E)/Lady Jane (E)/Sleep Talkin' (E)/I've Been Told (E)/I (Who Have Nothing) (E)
	SLE-8001 - Reflections - Terry Knight and the Pack [1966] This album was reissued as Cameo-Parkway C/CS-2007, with the Lucky Eleven logo (seen beneath the words "the pack" on the right part of the cover) replaced by the Cameo-Parkway logo. One Monkey Don't Stop No Show/Love Love Love Love Love/Come With Me/Got To Find My Baby/This Precious Time/Anybody's Apple Tree//The Train/Dimestore Debutante/Dirty Lady/Love Goddess Of The Sunset Strip/Forever And A Day/(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction
	SLE-8001 - Track On! - Terry Knight and the Pack [197?] Down In The Valley/Numbers/What's On Your Mind/The Shut-In/I Got News For You/A Change On The Way/Sleep Talkin'/I (Who Have Nothing)/Love, Love, Love, Love, Love

Thanks to Groovin' Garrett



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