Quote Originally Posted by midnightman View Post
I felt Motown still made the mistake of releasing Reach Out FIRST...

ANMHE was the perfect FIRST SOLO SONG and they messed that up for Diana. But either way, both songs got to be anthems for her and soul music so I'm cool.
I think they were/are both excellent choices; legend has it that Diana was insistent upon ROAT. I see your point about ANMHE being a sort of 'statement song' for a first single, though! I'm glad we have both.