Originally Posted by
RanRan79
I think it's a safe bet that a lot of the stuff that made it onto Syreeta's second album might have been intended for the Supremes. In fact, I wouldn't be surprised if Syreeta sang demos for the proposed Supremes album and they ultimately morphed into Syreeta's project.
I could hear Jean singing "Perfect Angel" and Mary singing "I Am Yours". The only person other than Chaka that I can ever imagine singing "Tell Me Something" is Stevie himself. Lol
Regarding "Bad Weather", I still like it. I listen to it fairly often. However, I become increasingly convinced that the song lacked some kind of element to give it an edge over the competition. They really jam toward the end, so maybe that's what's missing from the rest of the song. Maybe it should have been jammed packed right out the gate. As Sup points out, the song didn't even do well on the R&B chart, which for the most part the group had always done very well, at various times even better R&B positions than Hot 100. So for the song to do so poorly with R&B airplay and sales, a song combining the talents of the Supremes and Stevie Wonder, there had to be a flaw somewhere. I don't think it was lyrically and I don't think it was Jean, or the other Supremes. I keep going back to the instrumentation. Or maybe the tempo should have been faster. Would love to hear what kind of mixes Stevie could give it if he desired to play around with it today.
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