Another one of the Supremes best recordings from 1970:
Another one of the Supremes best recordings from 1970:
one of my favorites from the Right On lp
Thanks. I always felt this song never got the attention it deserved. Jean is brilliant!
Stunning performance! Frank Wilson’s build if this song is genius.
The background vocals are sensational too. I love how Jean riffs at the end!
Frank Wilson didn't produce this, Al Kent did. This is one of Jean's best vocals and I assumed it would follow Right To Love as the next single.
I don't like the sound effects on the re-mix. When something is this glorious you preserve the integrity. No need to paint the peacock.
Even though Right On is considered part of the Frank Wilson trilogy of albums, he only produced five of the twelve cuts. Great material here by Al Kent and Clay McMurray.
If I’m correct his was one of the first recording that Mary and Cindy did with Jean.
But I Love You More and Then I Met You are great tracks
The whole lp is great. Only song I don't care for is Baby Baby.
this was a great album ialways thought there were a few more singles left to be mined but i would have not released Everybody.s Got The Right To Love as a single. although it was a good lp cut.
Didn't know that. Touch was my immediate favorite LP by JMC but Right On ranks right up alongside it now. The first four JMC albums were a very impressive start for the "new" Supremes.Even though Right On is considered part of the Frank Wilson trilogy of albums, he only produced five of the twelve cuts. Great material here by Al Kent and Clay McMurray.
"You Move Me" is a favorite. Wonderfully dynamic performance and track.
I always thought "Then We Can Try Again" should have been the second single. Its melody had some similarity to "Tighter and Tighter" by Alive & Kicking [[released around the same time in 1970), but it was different enough to have also hit the pop charts, IMO.
Right On is a very strong lp. And interesting there aren’t any covers Great original material
I think single 2 should have been a single mix of Loving Country
IMO Everybody is the weakest track. Just sort of plods along and never really goes anywhere or builds to anything.
wasn't the song produced by Frank Wilson? but written by Ivy and Smokey?
and you got it, the track would have needed to be edited a bit. it's a great version on the lp but for a single it would have needed to shorten the intro a little. then after the second verse they probably could have cut to the bridge [[and a shortened version) and then segue into the key change and end single the choruses.
it might have also helped with a little more dynamic lead from Jean. listen to Ladder - good god was a performance. and at the end she really sings it out. she mumbles a bit more on Country and the ending could have been a bit more powerful lead singing.
but still it's better than the mess of Everybody. while the lyrical content is perfect for the times, the production just lags. it's too slow, barely plods along. sort of an annoying, bouncy, sing-a-long. The live version on Glen Campbell was better. at least jean is singing with more passion and the lead lines by C and M a welcomed addition. but it needed more excitement still
Then We Can Try Again just jumped out at me from my first listen. Because of Jean Terrell's bold, forceful lead, and the dynamic production, like Up The Ladder, this is a track that declares New Supremes.
Also, it wasn't another "message" song. Not that another message song would not have worked, but Then We Can Try Again displayed another facet of the new group. EGTRTL was just not exciting or interesting enough. A remixed Loving country may have worked, though.
The album is a pleasure to listen to some 48 years later! Up The Ladder was the best single choice. After Up and Then We Can Try Again, my favorites are You Move Me, But I Love You More, Then I Met You, The Loving Country. To my surprise, I now think Bill, When Are You Coming Back could have been a single. It's catchy, timely [[Vietnam War) and tells a poignant story.
I maintain that if the version of Everybody's Got The Right To Love that appears on Greatest Hits & Rare Classics was used instead of the album version we know, it would have been a hit. Jean has the punch in her voice and the backgrounds help quite a bit in that version. The unreleased version really helped me like the song. As released, it was a boring second single from the "new" Supremes.
And I never thought Bill, When Are You Coming Back would be a good single until I heard it played in a bar one night. It sounded fantastic, and totally changed my mind about its potential.
"Bill, When Are You Coming Back" was played on the radio as a single in Detroit and Toledo. Part of it was because everyone were excited and couldn't get enough of "the New Supremes" and because it was just such a great record. So for us, The Supremes "Right On" album received a lot of airplay with "Up the Ladder to the Roof" followed closely by "Bill When Are You Coming Back" then a few months later "Everybody Got the Right to Love".
BWAYCB is very "5th Dimension." also like after Marry Me Bill, the poor guy got shipped off overseas lol
i can understand that during the couple of months prior to Right On release, djs would have been playing both the A and B side from the debut single. it's a great release
Jean is just too shrill for me on the end of this song....I like the rest of it, but the end makes me cringe. Then We Can Try Again was one of my fav. JT tracks...the background vocals could be a bit brighter and less compressed....it stands the test of time. I also loved Have I Lost You?....they could have used that one and Here Comes The Sunrise as singles...Perhaps all 3 of these would have been issued had there not been the 4 Tops duet singles to issue during the same period.
[QUOTE=thommg;477674]I maintain that if the version of Everybody's Got The Right To Love that appears on Greatest Hits & Rare Classics was used instead of the album version we know, it would have been a hit.
Are you referring to the version on the GH&RC CD or cassette? Thanks.
I am definitely not hearing what the rest of y'all are hearing in regards to "The Loving Country". While I love the song and think it's an excellent album track, I just don't hear it as a hit single. Surprised hit, maybe. But "guaranteed" smash? Uh uh. Makes about as much sense to me as releasing "Everybody".
WAIT A MINUTE BEFORE YOU LEAVE ME and TAKE A CLOSER LOOK AT ME might have been good candidates for subsequent singles. Of their 70s album, I think RIGHT ON was the one that could have been milked much more for singles. But instead, Motown rushed out the Four Tops duets and then the NEW WAYS... album.
i think part of the rush was that they had started recorded Stoned Love in early April BEFORE Right On was even released. it wasn't done in time for the lp but i think just about everyone would agree that Stoned passed up anything on RO except perhaps Ladder. To delay releasing Stoned Love just to try and get another hit out of a third RO track would have been foolish.
And the song was more than a big enough hit to have carried an album of the same name, had motown not squandered the opportunity.
^now that i completely agree with. Although RDMH was a great duet, frankly the whole duets project should have simply be tabled. it really did nothing for either grouping, although i think it might have helped the Tops more than the girls. while both groups were in precarious situations, the Sups were attempting to re-establish themselves and needed to gain further credibility. Right On was an excellent album and had they selected a stronger second single, overall sales would probably have helped push the set to a higher charting position than the mid-20s.
Then came the amazing Stoned Love - which oddly was released with a misspelled title. no where in the sung lyrics do the girls ever say Stoned. they lyric is Stone. and we've all discussed the unfortunate situation around New Ways. the single should have gone #1 on pop charts and the album should have done much MUCH better. Also a subsequent single like Time To Break Down or Together should have been issued.
all of the duet stuff should have just been shelved. perhaps more in spring or summer 71 they might have been able to release 1 album of various duet tracks from the 3 sets we finally got.
i'm assuming because Stoned is simply amazing. everything about the song is great and while the RO tracks are very good songs, there's really not one among them that can stand next to Stoned. one the track was completed everyone would have been eager to get it out there and have a mega hit. which is exactly what they did
they just squandered the momentum with New Ways and the duets.
I always liked "Everybody's Got the Right to Love." I think a lot of people don't like it because it has a more Adult Contemporary MOR type sound than "the sound of Young America." It reminds me a lot of "Everybody Loves Somebody" by Dean Martin, in both theme and arrangement, and has that same kind of Vegas type arrangement. I'm surprised it wasn't more popular. I would love to hear a live version of it. Maybe live it comes more into its own than on the single release.
@blackguy68, thanks! I'll check that out.
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