I really like the sessions of Promises Kept, definitely a shame that some form of it didn't end up being released at the time, it would have been interesting to see how well it would have done, if at all. Listening to the complete list of songs, I don't really know which songs I would have chucked out to make a say typical 12-song album. I really like their strangely funky uptempo cover of Eleanor Rigby [[talk about unusual!) as well as Take Your Love Back. I too found Still Water a bit lacking; definitely feels like something is missing there, as others have said, it feels incomplete.
In the meantime, I constructed my own album cover to use on the iTunes album I made from all the Promises Kept tracks, calling it "The Complete Sessions," including the Motown logo and its unused catalog number of 746. I used that iconic pic of Jean, Mary and Cindy with the black background, in black turtleneck sweaters and their amazing afros. It's such an amazingly dramatic photo, it worked well. Here's the cover I made [[hope the link works, first time I've inserted an image)...
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