that line in Jimmy's recap of the album has always bugged me. WTF was he looking for!??!!? i'm assuming he had heard of The Supremes prior to this assignment lol and had heard a tune or two of theirs. it was never about a massive choral sound but of a group of 3 singers. sure there were times with added voices. or added vocal lines. like how Frank added the As and [[i think) JMC on multiple tracks. Like on This Is The Story and Touch and Loving Country. that would have been a much more interesting and captivating approach to creating a larger and more complex sound than just having 6 women standing and singing as a choir.
hell even when prior producers wanted to beef up the vocals, the As were surgically layered in. like on CW&P. it gave fullness to the sound but without swamping it.
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