Which Funks played on this?

[soulwally]

I've been loving all over again Mary Wells's Dear Lover, released as an Atco single [[Atlantic in the UK) in 1965. It's extremely Motownesque but under producer Carl Davis it's unmistakeably Chicago-made. The strings shimmer, the conga drum pops and the drum fills are pure Motown. Then there's a typical breathy vocal from Mary. It was recorded at the time the Funks were, apparently, regularly moonlighting in Chicago, so I wonder who might be on it?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubFRkF7Tj_8

[Roger Polhill]

Doesn`t sound like the Funks to me.

[StuBass1]

I know The Funks moonlighted on some Chicago sessions like Jackie Wilsons Higher & Higher...but getting caught on a Mary Wells session after she left Motown would have been considered a capital crime to Berry Gordy...

[robb_k]

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They sound like Carl Davis' regular Chicago musicians on this one. The blending of The Chicago Sound with The Motown Sound came from Carl Davis' signing Barrett Strong as a writer, after his contract with VJ ended.