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WaitingWatchingLookingForAChance
It's an incredible song. It veers dangerously close to being overproduced, but Fuqua and Bristol knew how to reign all those multiple elements in to craft an record that kicks you in your gut from the first second.
Unfortunately, to my mind, David caught an the tail of an unexpected comet. I don't believe Motown really had much intention of marketing David very much after all the tribulations they and David went through. "My Whole World" was a song that, like Gladys Knight & The Pips' "Grapevine" went over like gangbusters despite Motown not really giving it much push initially.
The other thing that hurt was when David went from top producers to the second-tier writers/producers. Motown wasn't promoting much by those writers, so no matter how good any of the songs may have been, David was going to end up like the Fantastic Four, Spinners and all those other B groups.
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