Originally Posted by
TheMotownManiac
have there been any interest from radio in any track from new ways Motown might’ve considered it but the only two songs I can think of that or even remote possibilities are I wish I were your mirror which has a great intro but it’s not that great after that. The other, it’s time to break down, needed additional work and a complete reedit, it just peters out and would go nowhere. Somewhere in that track I think there’s a possibility of a hit record but it’s not on that album as it is.
folks often bring up together we can make such sweet music, but as I’ve said before I really think it’s a cornball song lyric wise that was several years past it’s relevancy.
I am also surprised at the album didn’t do well considering it’s hit record single, but that’s an indication of the dwindling support for the new group from the record buying public. I don’t buy into lack of promotion or they should’ve change the title or it should’ve had a different cover maybe all of those things would’ve improved it, but if you’ve got a record like stoned live and many people know that there’s a long version of it on this album, and they are still not running out and Buying it, regardless of what it looked like or what it was called, there is a reason _ and that reason is disinterest. Remember, right on I’ve done quite well and if people were into the music on it, the follow up album with with a much bigger single would have fared better than right on. One can only conclude that the new Supremes were not capturing the market. The dismal showing of magnificent seven gives you an indication of the lack of interest in the group.
Two years before, Diana Ross and the Supremes and the Temptations had two albums in the top 10 at the same time, Supremes album in the top 20 Plus greatest hits and a live album still on the chart.
One year earlier, Supremes had cream of the crop greatest hits volume three and GIT on Broadway selling at the same time Although nowhere near as well as the year before - but the music wasn’t as good either. However, there was still support.
When the touch the album, with a great cover and a great single hit on it tanked, Motown wisely freaked out, dumped FrankWilson and tried some thing else. They released a second single off that album, the insipid “touch” - every once in a while I play that song and laugh out loud, that’s how bad I think it is. Now there’s nothing on new Waze that’s anywhere near as awful as attach, but still, it shows the disturbing trend and proves that radio would not support a weakling follow up single, like it did with Diana Ross and the Supremes several times.
I do think they should have held back new ways but love stays until they had another single to put on it…… How long could it possibly have taken? FrankWilsonran couldn’t come up with anything in a timely manner, there were lots of producers at Motown that would have loved to work with Jean Marie and Cindy and that great record could have been inserted on the album as an anomaly - like these things will keep me loving you and Ross’s first album. I know they were attempting to have some sort of a concept album, and there is some merit to the work that they did, there’s just not another hit single there and I think it was shortsighted of Motown to put it out that way.
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