The Supremes' "This Is Why I Believe in You" was a serious misfire. No hook, all over the place...how could this have made the cut when a lush, exquisite track like "Can We Love Again" languished in the vaults?
[QUOTE=TomatoTom123;387798]Lol... how many Debbie Dean fans actually are there?
Now, Paul, I am going to make you like, no, perhaps even love, a song by Debbie Dean. Hopefully you haven't heard it before.
Exactly Tom none I hope ha ha ha.
Now I've listened to 'Why Am I Loving You' it should be renamed 'Why Did I Listen To It' please someone put that back in the vault.
agree Sans! Yuk. I hated When Can Briwn Begin...syrupy. Most of Webb album brilliant and ahead of its time!! You're My Driving Wheel ...really?? Shake Sherry, Twistin Postman, Do you know where you're going to...who cares? Yuk
I love "When Can Brown Begin" only because of Jean's vocal. The lyrics...Anyway, I love Scherrie's vocal on "Driving Wheel" but it really wasn't good enough to be a single. I love "Shake Sherry" but agree with you on "Twistin Postman" and "Do You Know Where You're Going To". I hate those two songs with a passion.
Caston and Majors LP, dont know why I bothered to get the cd.
The Arlans we use to shop at in the sixties and just into the early seventies was losing ground and eventually close because of stores like Woolco, Meijer's Thrifty Acres, K-Mart and in a way Montgomery Wards. Still I have great memories of Arlans with the best popcorn on Earth and the little rides for kids right in front of the store. Remember? Arlans did have a pretty deep record section. I bought that first Supremes and Four Tops album there during Christmas 1970.
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the Supremes ...,Run Run Run.....hate it.
........................Your My Driving Wheel....yep the weakest track
........................Everybodys Got The Right To Love.....not a single
........................I Guess Ill Miss The Man....syrupy
........................The Composer.....nope....Livin in Shame syrupy lyrics.....
Diana ......Sleepin
...............Work That Body
...............Workin Overtime
Thanks for the support for "I Tried." Always nice to know you are not alone in this world.
Kenneth and Marv: you guys remember Spartans on Michigan Ave just east of Inkster? I got most of my Motown collection there at around $1.00 per album. They carried a lot of Diane's and Stevie's music in the cut out bins, in addition to a healthy supply of basic top forty pop music. I unloaded nearly all my physical music a while back in an effort to "spartonise" my life - no pun intended! I can still remember when I bought a certain album cause not too much money when I was a young kid! Great memories.
I don't remember Spartan's. But what a place it was to find records, that city. Amazing number of music and record stores.
I still remember going to Grinnell's downtown [[or later I think they also had a store at Northland) and seeing all the beautiful instruments. I loved Raynoma's book because she talked about buying the Ondioline [[that early version of a synthesizer which was all over the Marvelettes' first album and other early Motown tracks) at Grinnell's.
If I had known about Spartans at the time, I definitely would have been there.
And Marv, I do remember the popcorn at Arlan's but not the kiddie rides. I was probably in too much of a hurry to get in and go through the record cut-out bins!
the kiddie rides amounted to not much more than one of those coin operated horses LOL! To kid that was big deal. Anyway. I remember Grinnell's. There are 2-3 new yuppie type record stores that opened in Detroit in the last few years where they have listening rooms etc. I have been to them yet but read an article on them. I remember reading the Michigan Chroncle and Steve Hosley's column to find out what the latest records were sometimes.
As much as I dislike Norman Whitfield's protest music...actually I HATE it..I can accept it has a place in the world.
But as for Tom Clay...that vinyl lp was just a waste of the earths resources.
Berry let his cronyism blind him to any sense with that one.
Tiggi Clay - Flashes
As much as i love the temps-masterpiece ain't one of my favs.
"Who's Johnny" by El DeBarge
I was reading about the record "He's a Good Guy" on Motown Junkies which goes into detail that the part where it changes tempo is from some old folk song. That guy sure knows his stuff...!
PS That's Gladys though, not Wanda I think. Sometimes I have to listen hard to tell who's who but I'm pretty sure that one's all Gladys.
Or maybe you were talking about "Goddess of Love," which most definitely is Wanda. And are you saying your hair stands up on end, in a good way or a bad way?
The witness shall please clarify his answer. [[Sorry, it's hard not to be a lawyer sometimes.)
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I'm hardly a fan of "Custer's Last Man", Ray Oddis, "Muck-Arty Park", Captain Zapp etc. etc. but to me they are just silly novelty items that I can't take seriously.
I would have vaulted some of those MOR/Show-Tune recordings from the mid-60's that many of the Motown stars managed to record [[were they forced or did they record them voluntarily?), they were meant to be taken seriously but they could sound so "Un-Motowny" and were like blemishes on the face of the LPs they were included in. And this one would I would have sent straight to land-fill.
Roger
I have to agree with shelving the dismal "I Guess I'll Miss the Man." I never knew until someone on this forum told me it was the only track on the Jimmy Webb album not produced by him. And what a weird choice for a single. The song had no chorus, only a verse, was totally downbeat and depressing. They sure missed an opportunity by not promoting "5:30 Plane," for example, which IMHO contains one of Jean's best performances as a Supreme.
Although it's a soul classic,i never cared much for stevie's[signed sealed delivered].
I think that although I am very grateful that we are still finding Motown unreleased treasures I can appreciate why some of these tracks did not get past quality control !! But I will continue to support Motown related releases from universal, Ace and who ever can get the physical CD products
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