I Got A Feeling - Barbara Randolf

[rovereab]

Looking at the Don't Forget The Motor City entry for this song, I noticed that it was recorded at both L.A. and Hitsville-GW. Can anyone explain why the two locations are given please?

Thanks.

[jsmith]

I can't give you the definite answer but would guess that most / all of the backing track / instrumentation was laid down in LA.
By the time she joined Motown, Barbara was more of an actress than a singer, so I guess she'd have been LA based too. But in 67/68 her film rolls were intermittent, so she was spending around 8 months of those years performing in night clubs.
But she COULD have cut her vocals in Detroit ... OR ELSE ... the Funk Brothers / Andantes cut parts in Detroit that were added to the track.

[jsmith]

Barbara had a very complicated life at times.
She posed nude for Playboy in 68 & soon after spent lots of time performing in Vegas casinos [[around 1970 onwards). In between, she had become the 1st African-American woman to host a national TV variety program, The Barbara McNair Show [[1969).
There, she married Rick Manzie, a mob connected guy. They bought a 20-room house there shortly after their marriage in 1972. But he was found murdered in the house in Dec 76. It was suspected that his friend, fellow Chicago Outfit associate Tony Spilotro, committed the gangland-style hit.
It seems she was drawn into the mob world by her husband between 72 & 76.
Barbara was later married to Miss Ray's ex hubby Eddie Singleton.

[gman]

Barbara had a very complicated life at times.
She posed nude for Playboy in 68 & soon after spent lots of time performing in Vegas casinos [[around 1970 onwards). In between, she had become the 1st African-American woman to host a national TV variety program, The Barbara McNair Show [[1969).
There, she married Rick Manzie, a mob connected guy. They bought a 20-room house there shortly after their marriage in 1972. But he was found murdered in the house in Dec 76. It was suspected that his friend, fellow Chicago Outfit associate Tony Spilotro, committed the gangland-style hit.
It seems she was drawn into the mob world by her husband between 72 & 76.
Barbara was later married to Miss Ray's ex hubby Eddie Singleton.

He's asking about Barbara Randolph....not McNair....but I believe you got the end part right...BR was married to Eddie according to text in a YT post by Motorcity Project/ Nightmare label founder Ian Levine.

[jsmith]

Yep, they were both singers & actresses ... so I got their stories all intertwined [[well, I am 75 & getting senile) & mix up. Barbara Randolf was from Detroit, so may well have cut her vocals there. Both of them were in big movies with Sidney Poitier, so that's my main excuse. Both ladies spent time in Vegas but it was McNeir who had the murdered mobster hubby.

[rovereab]

The backing track sounds more "wholesome" than many L.A. tracks so perhaps it was added to in GW?