THIS version is not even the best version of this song. While working on The "From The Vaults" previously-unreleased LP project for Motown, during the 1970s, I found this, and the earlier-recorded, better[[tighter) version of this song in The Motown Vaults. We had it scheduled for a later LP than the first [[I think 4th LP), but the project was dropped before that could come out. A British friend of mine recorded it from my copy, and took it with him to England in 1980. It, and many other previously unreleased Motown recordings were then bootlegged for The Northern Soul scene [[several blank-label "carvers" were pressed for Northern Soul DJs). "My version" isn't even on You-Tube anymore, having been replaced by the ever-present 2nd [[IMO weaker) version.
It's a great wonder to me how Quality Control could have decided to issue "Goodnight Irene" [[Joe Stubbs lead), and NOT "Suspicion". The latter is IMO, The Originals' best Motown recording ever, beating out "Baby, I'm For Real", "Green Grow The Lilacs", "The Bells", and all the others. Same is true for "Crying In The Night" by The Monitors, "All I Have Left Are Memories" by Sammy Turner [[& Serenaders), "A Woman Won't Do Right" by Shorty Long, "I Should Have Known Better" by The Marvelettes, "All I Do [[Is Think About You" by Tammi Terrell, "Tears, Nobody, And A Smile" by The Serenaders, "Talking About My Girl" by The Parliaments, if, indeed, as was told to me, that they recorded that track to be sold to Jobete Music, and there was a Jobete Music acetate pressed [[as rumoured to have been seen at Motown), before Berry Gordy cancelled that sale, when he shut down Motown's Jobete Music office in New York after finding out that Raynoma had pressed up Mary Wells' "My Guy" and sold those copies to help finance her office's operation.
There were literally hundreds of almost perfect [[rated 100) super classical Motown recordings left unpressed from 1962-1970, skipped over, for whatever reason, by Quality Control, and then forgotten until we found them in The Vault between 1973 and 1982. Can you imagine 37 out of 40 songs in US Pop Radio stations' Top 40's from Motown labels during 1964-1967??? In my opinion, that amount probably deserved to be, based on level of production quality.
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