Quote Originally Posted by westgrandboulevard View Post
'Don't Make Hurting Me A Habit' is, for me, another beautiful blend of The Marvelettes and The Andantes, creating a layered, chorale effect where everyone has a valid presence on the recording.

IMO, just in an artistic sense, The Andantes were present to discreetly enhance The Marvelettes sound, not to completely replace them on all recordings. It's quite reasonable to add them to the original voices, when in the business of making records. But then, it always had to be about 'business' and availability of singers, which is understood.

The only track where I feel The Andantes simply were not needed was 'Anything You Wanna Do'....way too prominent, to the point of being really annoying... [[but just love that sax....)
Were they really using the Andantes as long back as "Anything You Wanna Do?" That was a pretty early B-side as I recall. I didn't think the Andantes came into being until '65 or even '66. Am I wrong?