Originally Posted by
sup_fan
don't really disagree with that Al. i don't think the tunes are as "complete" or powerful as on earlier LPs. but frankly i think the decline started a little earlier. I thought both A Go Go and HDH were not the strongest lps. and that mostly lies in the cover tunes. they're either perfect covers [[This old heart, Shake Me Wake Me, I'll Turn to stone) or sort of crap [[Sugar Pie, Heatwave, Sloopy).
if you think about it, More Hits is about the only complete HDH & Supremes work. where the producers were writing songs and and productions for the Sups. I realize Whisper was originally recorded for mary Wells but I'm taking creative license and overlooking that cuz it works so well for the sups lol
but WDOLG lp was only partially produced by HDH. Symphony was all HDH productions but 7 of the 12 songs are covers from outside motown. A Go Go is both full of covers AND half or so of songs are not by HDH. HDH is at least produced by the guys and all their songs but several are covers and they oddly went back and pulled 3 songs from way back in 64.
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