Originally Posted by
TheMotownManiac
My two cents is that it was a pretty good album, but it lacked a slam dunk hit. if for 45 years people are still discussing what the single release should have been, it might be that there was no clear choice. That’s my view. There’s something wrong with every single cut that makes it an imperfect choice.
Gettin Ready has an amazing track, but the chorus is slightly sophomoric lyrically and melodically. She certainly gives it all she’s got. B
You Got It would edit down beautifully to about 3:15 with a highly truncated intro and elimination of the change leading into, “keep it coming don’t stop now, “which is great if you’re in songwriting 101, but with that taken out, it’s a fairly tight single except going back into the chorus for the fade it’s kind of anti-climactic. B
Baby It’s Me was ahead of its time for sure, but may have caught on and hit big. It also could’ve been completely ignored by radio. I think the way to handle this would to have put the single out, with no fanfare for an album whatsoever and see what happens. It hit, print the labels and put the album out. If it didn’t do well, don’t follow up with another single for a couple months, released the album with a different title, and pretend it never got released at all. B
Top Of The World I believe is the most radio friendly of the bunch. If you could get past the first 35 seconds you have a perfectly crafted record for radio. I’m too familiar with the song to gauge how the intro works on this one, but by the time it gets to the first chorus, it’s a radio hit. The intro could be cut in half, but I’m not sure that it needs it. This song will never be song of the year, but I think with a little push it is definitely top-five and might go all the way. Still, it’s no Love Hangover or ANMHE. A-
Your Love Is So Good For Me Is a perfectly fine run-of-the-mill disco record that will never be voted Miss Originality. I just don’t think it’s special enough for radio. C
All Night Lover has a lot going for it like that Supremesey Motown swing, but a lot of the lyrics sound like it was written by a thesaurus. It moves along nicely, but repetitively until that break crescendo, where it’s one big let down after that. I think it needed to finish with a more highly charged close then just going back to the original, same as the last three minutes, Uber repeated chorus. Lots of appeal, perhaps too much banality for radio. C+.
The Same Love That Made Me Laugh I think is unique enough, and entertaining enough to go top 10, except there’s no finish. It just kind of goes limp and goes home. Otherwise I believe it would be a very strong contender for a single B- - -
Come In From The Rain it’s a beautiful song, beautifully produced, impeccably sung but at four minutes, might be a little slow. Perhaps a slight increase in speed and a little tightening, at 3:35 or 340, and we need to get to number one, or number 63. I’m not sure the pace would convince programmers to add it, But her vocal pulls you and from the beginning But her vocal Pauls you and from the beginning. A-
Too Shy To Say is a nice track, a good song, perhaps a little schmaltzy, but I don’t hear it on Pop radio. D
Confide In Me. It’s a nice track that would never get a spin at a radio station. F
so I guess what I would’ve done is leak the title track and see what happens. if it hit, I would release the album baby it’s me. If it didn’t, I would release nothing for three months and probably come out with top of the world first, from the album Come In From The Rain
If both of those hit, I would’ve tried a truncated you got it. Which would have to make or break quickly because ease on down the road it would be coming out very soon.
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