Originally Posted by
RanRan79
I've seen that said in the forum before, that "Lovelight" is more Martha and the Vandellas than Supremes but I disagree. Everybody at Motown at this point was doing these kinds of roaring through the new Motown Sound recordings. I don't think Martha and the girls had the lock on the sound.
"Run" should have been released shortly after it was recorded. By the time of its actual release, it sounded dated. And frankly I always thought there was something a bit muffled about the sound. It's not crisp and clear like the others, IMO. Pop radio passed on it, but R&B radio did push it near the top 20. The fact that it even did that well is a bit of a surprise.
IMO the only cut that could have followed "Lovelight" prior to "Where" is "Don't Take It Away". It's current Motown, all the ladies bring their A game. It's a very good song. I imagine the best it could hope for would be top 40 pop, top 30 R&B, but still a better follow up than the nearly year old "Run, Run, Run".
"Penny Pincher" needed more work. It's a good song for what it is, but as a single it needed a ton more work, including the chorus, which is kind of clunky. But there's something there, and it does sound like a "Lovelight" knock off, which Motown loved to release as singles, songs that sound an awful lot like its predecessor.
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