First I Look at the Purse has also been covered by David Bromberg, Rod Stewart, Commander Cody and His Lost Planet Airmen, The Cortinas and Nashville Pussy. "First I Look at the Purse" was the last Contours hit featuring original lead Billy Gordon. It also features the renewed line-up of Contours, as several original members had left back in 1964. Shortly after its release, Gordon departed the group, and Motown, for good, due to personal problems. He was replaced with Joe Stubbs, brother of lead singer of fellow Motown group The Four Tops, Levi Stubbs. In the early 2000s, the Contours performed the song on the
Marie Stubbs The couple divide their time between London and Banbury. They have three daughters and six grandchildren, In 2005, ITV made her book into a two-hour drama with Julie Walters playing Lady Stubbs. In ""Good Housekeeping 2008"" she said playing Lady Stubbs in Ahead of the Class was one of her favourite roles. Marie Stubbs Marie, Lady Stubbs, DSG (born 1939, Glasgow) is a British educator and academic, mostly known for being the headmistress who reformed St George's Roman Catholic Secondary School, in Maida Vale, London. Marie Margaret Stubbs was headteacher at Douay Martyrs School in Ickenham. She was also responsible