Her finest performance, I should say. I still prefer this over every other version!
Her finest performance, I should say. I still prefer this over every other version!
I've always wondered..who are those other[marvelettes-wink-wink]on the cover??
Somebody said that were the girls of Undispituted Truth, but i don´t know it exactly, maybe someone confirm.
Fantastic version!!!!
And the girls on the cover are indeed supposed to be Bille Calvin and Brenda Evans of The Undisputed Truth!
That has been a rumor for quite a while, but in the liner notes for the Marvelettes deliver the singles box set, Smokey said he didn’t know who the girls were. Of course Smokey would’ve known them if they were from undisputed truth, but I’m not sure Smokey would’ve admitted it was them perhaps, feeling it would be embarrassing to them or to Motown possibly. So I’m not sure we will ever really know.
Interesting kenneth. I guess if the photography for the album was done without Smokey's direct involvement [[although is that unlikely?) it could still be the UT girls and he may not have known it was them. Or are you saying he was there and didn't recognise who the girls actually were?
Remember, guys, this album was supposed to be a Wanda Rogers solo project but since she was reportedly unstable [[didn't it come out later that she was schizophrenic or bipolar or something like that?) and dealing with alcoholism and substance issues [[I don't know if it was pills or cocaine or heroin or all three?), they had to quickly make it a Marvelettes comeback album [[the group that was the Marvelettes had already split up by then) so Motown probably rushed this. The long standing rumor is that Mary Wilson was ONE of the women [[probably the one on the right) to be featured on the cover but the other woman COULD be a member of the Undisputed Truth. Since the Marvelettes split up, the faces of the two women were more obscured than Wanda's.
Nah, that was not it. Wanda and her sister were coming out of store in Detroit and this guy comes up and shoots Wanda's sister in the head, killing her. It's been said that her sister was wearing one of Wanda's wigs at the time.....
Wanda had a nervous breakdown after that.
Wanda Young’s version of “After All” is exquisite! I think it should have been the A-side. Don’t get me wrong, “Marionette” was/is a good song, but not Top 40 good! I wonder what would have happened if the single or the album had hit! Would Billie Rae & Brenda have gone on to become official Marvelettes?
On Facebook, Brenda Evans confirmed that she and Billie Calvin were the other two ladies on the album cover.
"Yes Billie and I thought we were scheduled to do session background work that day. We didn't have a clue what was happening. We wasn't told anything about the Marvelettes. We were put on two fake horses incognito. Motown at that time didn't tell us what was going on. I had forgot we did that Photo for a couple of decades."
Well if he was the producer of the album he would have to know what the final art looked like and I would think he’d be somewhat involved with it, though of course at Motown you can’t be sure how strict they were about such things. But all I remember from the notes is that he said he didn’t know who the girls were when someone asked him if they were the two ladies from undisputed truth.
I wish there was a way to use the images from the album cover to try to enhance what they would look like without all the airbrushing. It might solve the mystery!
Fake horses as well? Blimey. Well if she said it, that must be theundisputed truth.
Lol I didn't know the horses were fake.
Everything's fake. In fact I didn't even post this reply.
Oh boy,it's on now...the horses amalcamated union lawyers[oats,hay&barley esq.]wants to know why they were[stiffed]with fake horses!!!
Fake..that explains why they weren't smiling..the horses!!
Wanda is holding the infant on the cover of "The Season for Miracles," which I think came out not long after "Return of the Marvelettes," but who notices the baby when Wanda is absolutely gorgeous in a revealing negligee and a tiara! What a beauty she was.
So, for a group that didn't really exist any longer they go to the time and expense of this photo shoot of fake horses and fake Marvelettes for an album cover. Whereas for the legendary Supremes paired with a legendary producer they chose a pic of a dandelion for an album cover!
I'm assuming the Andante's were doing the backgrounds on this LP?
Yes, that's correct. Katherine and Ann do appear on one track, I believe, "Uptown," which also appeared in a slightly different mix on the last true Marvelettes LP "In Full Bloom." "That's How Heartaches Are Made" also appears on both albums, but I believe it's only the Andantes on backing vocals on that one.
in all the years I NEVER heard those were fake horses. I understood the pix were taken at a stable on Belle Isle in Detroit.
It was just reported that the fake horses won't sue... If motown let's them record a song called-when the fakes get caught up in the game!!
I guess that huge crap Wanda's horse took is fake too?
This just in...the horses are getting back together for the Return of the Marvelettes Horses tour! [[ROTMH for short.) But of course there's drama. One of the horses wanted more money so the other two horses were like "neh#!&*%neh" and replaced the horse with the bird from the cover of the Supremes I Hear a Symphony album. Looks like we're in for a good ole fashion Motown fight!!
sorry, those horses are dead & gone along time ago.
I think the fake ones are still alive.
Well, whoever was behind this imbroglio [[confusion; embarrassment; complication), they know who they are [[or were)!! As the vinyl buying public, we're the "Hunter Captured By the Prey!" I know droll. [[dry, unusual amusement) But it sounded funny when it popped into my head!! Sorry, Dr. Reeves.
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