Mary Wilson and Marvin Gaye
I hesitate to start this thread because some of you don't know how to discuss with maturity, but I'm going to take a chance and hope for the best.
In the Dennis Edwards shelved album thread it is mentioned that Marvin Gaye wanted to produce something for Mary Wilson:
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Marvin Gaye was to produce Mary Wilson that same year but it never materialized due to Marvin being swamped with his own recording work.
I wanted to pose the question in the thread but thought it was too off topic from Dennis. Do you all think this Marvin/Mary collab could have worked? I'm on the fence. I almost feel like anything would have been better than the abysmal debut album the label put out on Mary. But some of Marvin's late 70s work was kind of out there. Would he have tried to give Mary such a progressive sound or would he have tailored the songs to her talent? Marvin was such a classic balladeer and Mary was so great at ballads that I would like to think the match could have been heaven made. This is one of those scenarios that if done well it could have been classic, but if done wrong it could have been some of the worst music to come out of the label at the time. What do you all think?