Originally Posted by
hwume
Motown often prepared sleeves, and/or created catalog numbers, in anticipation of LP releases that as we know sometimes didn't happen. The original Workshop Jazz label edition of Breaking Through was not released. When we were putting together that album's official release in '99, we had as a reference the same [[one and only) little pic of that proposed cover from an inner sleeve. The actual artwork - if such a thing actually existed, it may have been that one promotional/advertising mockup or a few for the strategy meetings nomis cites - is no longer in any archive we've come across; if it survived it may be in the Museum archive, or could have been tossed out when the group was partnered with H-D-H.
We searched for the photograph shown on the proposed cover, hoping to re-create the original idea. [[That image, in fact, was the basis for the illustration on the Four Tops' Second Album.) But it seems also to be gone.
So, we created what we felt was an appropriate cover and companion booklet artwork.
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