Originally Posted by
RanRan79
I never get enough of "Aint No Mountain High Enough". Brilliant reinterpretation. Everything about it is absolutely perfect IMO. It's so different from Marvin and Tammi [[and even Supremes and Tempts) that it might as well be an entirely different song.
That's how I feel about ROIBT. I can't compare it to the 4 Tops because it's so incredibly different. Now, I do have to admit that for the first part of the song I'm kind of bored, but when she sings "looka here"...from that point forward I'm hooked. I play the song a lot and honestly I usually skip right to that part and go for it.
The "boring" part may have been why the song didn't put up numbers close to that of "Mountain". Although I guess the argument has to be made that the public was "turned off" by the attempt to repeat "Mountain" when I really think that was probably a once in a lifetime thing. Anything else was going to sound second rate, no matter how good it was.
Both have fantastic Ross vocals.
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