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oh completely agree. Mary's voice and style just wasn't a great match for fast-paced disco. on a more moderate dance tune like You're What's Missing, she fits much better.

and i would assume...

i think Susaye was also woo'd into the group with talk of potentially writing and producing for the group. I mean she had just had a #1 with Deniece Williams after all. so she had the chops for it....

somewhere i thought we've seen a review of their gig their but i'm not sure if it was this particular night. i think they were on night #4 of their 2 week gig when it all fell apart. i thought the...

what would you do for the Reflections lp instead of Bah?

it's an exciting track, great rhythm and dance beat. Diana is delivering an assertive lead and isn't too nasal or whiney. to be honest, the song is sort of a Heatwave knockoff. i could easily hear...

oh of course you can change things! lol that's half the fun ;)

it would very interesting to hear what some of the original proposed lineups for the LC album were to be. we've heard that at...

i think they mostly kept that in for sentimental reasons. that was one of their first "blockbuster" MOR songs. and sort of their signature tune. most of the other MOR stuff cycled in and out. ...

i believe that story is in reference to the winter 66 performance there.

to some degree, i get it. I don't think Podell really cared all that much about Flo. it was more about inconsistencies...

there are so many excellent tunes left in the vaults and yet so many albums were filled with endless cover tunes. of course we all know this was a sales ploy - fans would see tunes they recognized. ...

i don't blame disco - look at how perfectly Diana incorporated The Boss into her act or look at her 1980 HBO concert in Vegas promoting the whole The Boss album. the audience is absolutely alive...

with both Lynda and Susaye [[and frankly even Scherrie) there wasn't a very strong effort to help redefine the group with the onset of a new singer and personality. They did eventually do some with...

totally agree that they were trying to sort of ease things in. on GH it was definitely smaller. and then the bubble lettering on Reflections just helped to make "Supremes" more legible than DR.

you'd think they could have spent the 5 mins in trying to come up with some NEW stage patter. this sassy Pearl Bailey persona just wasn't Cindy

there were the ad libs in My World - maybe that's more of what i was thinking. You're right in You're nobody and also in Queen of the House Cindy kept the flo lines too

it's also interesting to wonder what the DRATS years might have been like with Flo still part of the group. clearly motown management understood flo's appeal. they were still giving her these...

i would imagine at someplace like the Copa, it must have been amazing to see the group. especially as time went on. the 65 Copa show was great but when we listen to the 66 Roostertail or the 67...

the 3 personalities really worked magic together. Diana was flamboyant. Mary really was the sexy one with her $10,000,000 smile and looks. Flo was the earthy Pearl Bailey one. and they...

some of the other tunes from spring 68 that might have worked with this revised Reflections lp could be If You Should Walk Away. You Gave Me Love was also recorded later but from an audio...

it's a scene from Glee where the kids were drunk for a school assembly and one of the characters barfs all over the Rachel character [[who was also the most annoying and hideous of characters lol). ...

agree - my POV is if it's something about their professional lives, it's completely open for discussion. personal issues are less so, outside of the ones that were specifically and clearly impacting...

the good thing is that it doesn't appear that it was widely noticed by others. i've never heard of any reviewers saying something or a wild newspaper headline. again, very fortunate. imagine if...

since i like all of the women and for different reasons, i'm going to highlight each lineup and a fav tune from that period

DMFB - totally raw and unaffected vocals, just so much urgency. You...

in Randy's book, when Flo came down to the dressing rooms that day, people in the area said that she appeared, at first, to be in a decent mood. they also said she appeared either hungover or...

i've never been a huge fan of In And Out Of Love but a few years back i was on Wikipedia reading about the girls' hits and one of the descriptions used for this tune was "Sunshine Pop." i was...

yes - it's a bit deeper, darker of a tone. a more mature sound definitely