How Did Motown Feel About TSOP

[Boogiedown]

Good stuff Quinn.
I can't remember if the J5 transition to Epic made a lot of press or not at the time ? Likely not anything like the attention Diana Ross got when she switched to RCA, the J5 were no longer the hot property they had been in the early seventies. Likely they were considered a passing fad sort of like the Osmonds, The Partidge family.

And Motown acts jumping ship had become common , almost expected.

I imagine Berry Gordy found some solace in the poor performance of their first couple of CBS albums ; their not doing much better [[no better?) than the last Motown ones.
Must not have been too strong of hard feelings, soon Berry would have Michael and Diana working side by side on The Wiz.