This is a "wonderful" recording by Jimmy from January 1968:
This is a "wonderful" recording by Jimmy from January 1968:
Absolutely the best...a very big hit here in the U.K in 1970.
Thank you Marv, one of Jimmy`s best from "Ruff N` Ready" a favourite of mine.Hope you are well and did you like the discs ?
Marv, the pleasure is all mine!
Well Marv, I was so high on this tune that in the 80's I had hatched a plan to take the Ruff 'N' Ready album down to our local radio station and ask them in person to play the "Wonderful" track. I was a very idealistic, teen-age Motown fanatic and I just KNEW if I made a good enough pitch, I could persuade someone to give the tune a spin on the station. Pity that I didn't carry through with that emotionally-charged idea!
I've always said that Motown was an embarrassment of riches. They had so, so many talented people there in a variety of areas that it must have been difficult at times to decide who and what to support and promote. Dean & Weatherspoon wrote some superb songs. So did Frank Wilson, Sylvia Moy, Clarence Paul ,etc.etc. When HDH got hot, it took a good long while for them to cool down if they ever did while at Motown. A larger company could have handled all of that magnificence.
It is pretty staggering, not just the number of writers/producers Motown had, but also that there was hardly a dud in the lot. If I live to be 100 years old, I'll never completely fathom Motown had so much going on in a row of little houses in Detroit; and they their thing better than everyone else.
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