The Valadiers - What's Wrong With Me Baby

"What's Wrong With Me Baby" was an old Northern Soul classic, originally performed by The Invitations. Here is The Valadiers amazing version of the song. This priceless footage was shot at that fabulous Motorcity Records weekend, at the Pontchartrain Hotel in Detroit in August 1990. The Valadiers were Motown's first official white group, but fooled everybody because lead singer Stewart Avig's voice sounded so black. Despite recording a multitude of songs between 1960 and 1963, they only had three singles released, their huge hit "Greetings This Is Uncle Sam", released in October 1961 on the Miracle label, and their two follow ups, "Because I Love Her", in May 1962, and "I Found A Girl" in January 1963, both on the Gordy Label. The last of these was released in England on the Oriole label's Motown series. The group never actually split up, but changed their name to The Latin Counts and became a more multi-racial group, as Stewart changed members of his group over the years. The Latin Counts have had many local Detroit releases on independent labels through the last forty years. When we arrived in Detroit, in March 1989, original lead singer, Stewart Avig, came to see me at the St. Regis Hotel and asked me to record them, if they changed their name back to The Valadiers. Don Revels, who was now in the group, used to also be in The Royal Jokers, who were signed to Golden World before Motown absorbed them into its ever growing empire.