Originally Posted by
Spreadinglove21
What do you mean by defective? A song that was botched in the recording/production process--such as too many bad notes, or a mistake in the mixing process? Or are you referring to songs that were vaulted after quality control meetings turned them down for lacking hit potential, and worse, not even worthy of being added as filler material for an album?
I've heard some of the expanded editions and lost and founds, and by and large, the songs that were unvaulted for such releases were meh for me. I get why they were vaulted as they just weren't good enough. Motown was in the business to make money and to make money, they had to make hits. And their primary concern was to hit in the American pop and R and B music markets. They weren't going for, at the time, Northern soul music fan, which didn't really exist.
I'm sure between all the expanded releases and box sets and lost and founds, someone could comb through them as well as any books and other sources to compile a listing of songs/recordings that were vaulted. It's an interesting if obscure part of Motown history, if for nothing else because time, craft and talent was invested in producing those records that were ultimately not heard until many decades later, if at that.
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