Originally Posted by
daviddesper
I love Bayou's input. I only met Martha once and it was only about 4 or so years ago. She was appearing as the "warm up act" [[how insulting is that?) for The Spinners, which would of course contained at the time only Henry and a bunch of new guys. The show was in a casino and Martha, Lois and Delphine were only given half an hour.
The Spinners then performed for at least an hour and a half. So even though Martha and the girls could have gone back to their hotel room and chilled out, instead they were the ones out in the lobby doing a Meet and Greet and the Spinners were nowhere to be found. I chatted with Martha for about half an hour and just as Bayou said, when you mention a song, she will sing a bar or two of it for you.
After my visit with her I gambled for a while and when I came back [[and by now it would have been midnight or later), they were still there, willing to talk to anyone who wanted to chat. It was overall one of my nicer concert experiences despite their short time on stage.
As for favorite songs, like all Motown artists in my opinion, their peak was 1966. Honey Chile and I Can't Dance were great but as a naive teenager I did not know anything about the turmoil of the time within Motown. When Bless You came out, I thought then [[and still do) that it was one of Motown's all-time classics and that they were here to stay.
I further agree that the Richard Perry album was a masterpiece and should have done much better.
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