Originally Posted by
RanRan79
With hindsight, if I were Motown, I would have:
Released Right On with the singles "Ladder", "Wait A Minute" and "Then We Can Try Again". [[Had "Stepping On My Dream" and "You Only Miss Me When You See Me" made the RO album, I would have chosen those as singles 2 and 3, respectively.)
Released New Ways later that year, with the singles "Stoned Love", "Time To Break Down" and possibly "Kiss Him Goodbye".
The Mag7 album and the single "River Deep" in the spring of 71.
Touch album in early summer. "Nathan Jones" with a different mix as lead single. As a single, I still think "Touch" had a chance had it just been a Mary only lead and with a brilliant mix. How well it would have done is anyone's guess. The only other single I hear for sure is "Here Comes the Sunrise".
A Christmas themed album in time for the holiday season of 71.
Floy Joy album with singles "Floy", "Automatically Sunshine", and believe it or not, maybe "Now the Bitter, Now the Sweet".
A second Smokey album later in 72.
A live album around spring 73, maybe The Supremes At the Apollo?
The Supremes Produced By Stevie Wonder in 73. I don't have a problem with "Bad Weather" as the lead single, but I have faith that any subsequent singles would have been some genius Stevie.
Hopefully from here, it would be enough to keep JML intact. With Stevie's attention to his own career, I think a follow up, no matter how successful, would be unlikely. So perhaps Willie Hutch could produce something, if staying within Motown. Or how about Chuck Jackson and Marvin Yancy? Of course Thom Bell.
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