Originally Posted by
Motown4Ever518
A good move Mr. June, the Mrs. hopefully will move fast since this is a very limited run. I just listened to the second CD, and because a lot of the first CD has been released in some form or another, I actually prefer it to the first. If I had had to answer the question, Why? Mary recorded these tunes before she was 21, but brought a certain amount of sophistication to the songs, she obviously liked the songs, and appeared to want to record them, and to my ears appears to have taken direction well from the producers. On some of the other Motown artists it was obvious that they were not sold on doing standards, show tunes, or Jazz. Ms. Wells on some of the tunes never sounded better. Even hanging tough with Mr. Gaye, who was definitely singing for his supper.
As an aside, besides our interest in Motown a very august date August is my birthday as well.
Cheers