huntergettingcaptured
03-08-2017, 01:03 PM
You posted this back in December on the "Third Finger, Left Hand" thread:
"I liked it too. While we are on that time frame, I will bring up a song from the same era that I always loved, and I mention it occasionally and no one ever seems to agree with me. So I will try again. Are there any other "Tell Me I'll Never Be Alone" fans out there? I think that is one of their best songs ever to have been ONLY an album cut and not even so much as a B side. That bridge where the girls sing "everybody needs somebody so they'll never be alone" is awesome!"
I'm with you on this song; it's another fantastic Dean/Weatherspoon production where the structure is sheer perfection. I always love how their songs are so seamlessly structured so that lyrics and chorus flow from one to the other so well. My first thought was how "BIG" this sounded. A full-on, grand-scale affair with a swelling music track and the wonderful mix of actual group vocals and the Andantes 2nd-level backgrounds working almost subliminally in the mix.
Like you said, the bridge is awesome because it really allows Betty and Rosalind to have sort of "solo" spot of their own and shine in their own right. To me, this was a cousin to the Dean/Weatherspoon production of "When You're Young And In Love" for The Marvelettes; big-scale music bed, ample vocals that put the original group members voices out front.
I always wished there were more of these Dean/Weatherspoon songs done with Martha Reeves and The Vandellas. This one definitely is special.
By the way, have you heard the mono mix on this song?
"I liked it too. While we are on that time frame, I will bring up a song from the same era that I always loved, and I mention it occasionally and no one ever seems to agree with me. So I will try again. Are there any other "Tell Me I'll Never Be Alone" fans out there? I think that is one of their best songs ever to have been ONLY an album cut and not even so much as a B side. That bridge where the girls sing "everybody needs somebody so they'll never be alone" is awesome!"
I'm with you on this song; it's another fantastic Dean/Weatherspoon production where the structure is sheer perfection. I always love how their songs are so seamlessly structured so that lyrics and chorus flow from one to the other so well. My first thought was how "BIG" this sounded. A full-on, grand-scale affair with a swelling music track and the wonderful mix of actual group vocals and the Andantes 2nd-level backgrounds working almost subliminally in the mix.
Like you said, the bridge is awesome because it really allows Betty and Rosalind to have sort of "solo" spot of their own and shine in their own right. To me, this was a cousin to the Dean/Weatherspoon production of "When You're Young And In Love" for The Marvelettes; big-scale music bed, ample vocals that put the original group members voices out front.
I always wished there were more of these Dean/Weatherspoon songs done with Martha Reeves and The Vandellas. This one definitely is special.
By the way, have you heard the mono mix on this song?