Originally Posted by
bradsupremes
I never bought Motown’s reasoning that it was cheaper to fly in the lead vocalist rather than the whole group. Like what Reese had said, the guys were more likely to cause a stink and protest if they were replaced. A bit of misogyny thrown in too.
I've read that thought that the guys would protest more, but there are too many of the male groups that DID have others added on their records, so I don't think any of them were protesting. Likely, your earlier statement is more true that they just didn't want to rock the boat, especially being that so many of them were 2nd level artists and wouldn't have much power anyway.
Originally Posted by
bradsupremes
I also think “Can’t Seem To Get You Out Of Mind” is Levi and Ashford & Simpson. Doesn’t sound like the Tops on it.
That's a tough one because there are literally at least a couple layers of vocals going on there. The Andantes are in full force for certain, but there are definitely more than just 2 or three other voices. It's just that the mix doesn't really reveal all of what's going on. I did a thing with a guitar effects compression pedal where I dubbed that song with tons of compression. You can hear the backing vocals a bit more clearly and at the end of the song, you can really hear there are a couple layers of vocals each singing overlapping lines. It sounds like the Tops [[and/or Originals) and Andantes repeating the "Can't seem to get you out of my mind..get you out of my mind/get you out of my mind" while another layer of consisting of the Andantes are doing a mass font of "ahhhh"s using the same melody line as the the sung vocals.
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