Originally Posted by
TheMotownManiac
no one heard it because it stunk. Jeans vocal is so irrrrrritating that I can just imaging programming directors pulling the needle off 30 seconds into it and tossing it. Even The UK who made hits out of US flops like Surrender And Automatically Sunshine couldn’t save this Turkey. This BS about radio not getting it is fake news. Motown didn’t even control the promo launches - it was all done for them. WHY would Motown go to the trouble of issuing a single on a desperate group that it made money off of and then not send it to radio? THAT, is what releasing a single IS: sending it to radio. Why do I gave a red vinyl promo copy of BW with radio codes on it if it hadn’t gone to radio? This absurd BS has to be stopped in any serious discussion. In 3 years The Supremes had gone from being an A act to a B minus act. Motown had lost Gladys, Tops, Spinners, Martha with no replacements. They could ill afford to lose The Supremes. Stevie Wonder was no fool, he’d have known if it hadn’t been sent out. What he didn’t realize is that while HE could sell that record, Jeans great voice was not suited to it. For every few die hards on this list that likes it, there were millions plugging their ears at the noise. R&B radio couldn’t even move it and they had to play it because it got enough points to chart.
It it just was a terrible record for radio back then, nice try, valiant, but terrible. In Mary‘s book, she complains to Diana that Motown is not promoting her singles. She states that bad weather has been out for months and not gotten any promotion. Oddly, almost 2 months after it’s release, it charts briefly for one week. That says to me that diana said something to Barry about getting that song played, and an effort was made, but you cannot expect radio stations to play a song they think is so terrible that it will make people turn off their channel. They just will not do that. Had. There been a good response to whatever play if Was getting, and people were running out and buying it and the manager from those record stores they didn’t have it, it would have made noise and got up the chart. That’s how records become hits. But everyone I know absolutely Hated it and wondered how it ever even got released because it was so terrible!
This business of crying the lack of promotion every single time something associated with Mary doesn’t hit, is an old old old old joke that wasn’t very funny the first time. If it took you two years to find bad weather in a store, You should’ve come to Illinois or Ohio it was all the stores…… Collecting dust.