Originally Posted by
Ngroove
Yes, around 1972, goes the Four Tops, who'll be back bigger for a time at Dunhill. The Spinners, who'll definitely score exponentially times larger at Atlantic. The following year, Gladys Knight & the Pips, migrated to where they believed "The Grass is Greener", which was fruitful, at Buddah.
Who else, in then coming news to travels to Los Angeles, said "no" and chose to remain behind in Detroit? Martha Reeves, also quietly splitted the Vandellas, and the company. The Marvelettes, only an illusion, by "The Return of the Marvelettes", Wanda Young the only clear member left, went and assumably passed all but unnoticed.
Say, who else? Bobby Taylor? Fantastic Four? Which Funk Brothers stuck around a little longer, and for which notable numbers? And, knowing that Norman Whitfield's productions of the Temptations lasted through 1973, did every one of Norman Whitfield's associations were only based on Detroit?
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