Originally Posted by
Tamla Junkie
The Satintones: they seem to be among the "red-headed step-children" of the early, some might say primordial, Motown era. Why? Beats the hell out of me.
That 1959-1962 period was an odd one at Motown, and in music in general. Doo-Wop was just starting to die, R&B was evolving into something very different, and the Motown sound, that distinct "brand" of R&B was starting to emerge.
I can't help but feel that if the Satintones had only recorded later, they may have achieved some lasting commerical success. Instead they recorded a handful of singles, some dismal, some phenomenal, a bunch of stellar material for a shelved LP, and then faded off into obscurity...
Any ideas as to why they weren't successful? The earliest Temptations material is fundamentally no better or worse than a lot of the Satintones material, yet they managed to crack the charts.
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