Oh yeah, "Teardrops" is a gorgeous recording. Mary does something with it that even the great Dionne Warwick couldn't do with it. It really should've been a single, maybe punched up a bit.
I will say that listening to Scherrie sing ballads in their live shows, she often was very vocally animated, which is exactly why she would've been a great addition to Broadway, but I'm not sure her voice lent itself all that well to pop ballads the way that Mary's did. Even in Glass House I think Scherrie was primarily lead on uptempo numbers, although she does a brilliant rendition of "A House Is Not A Home".
Obviously Susaye was well suited to ballads. But I don't care for her voice, so...
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