Originally Posted by
johnjeb
Meet The Supremes had solos by both Florence and Mary. Right On would have been the perfect time to reintroduce the format for all future albums with Mary and Cindy each having solos.
I think "Everybody..." would have been perfect as a solo for Mary, or at least shared leads for Mary and Cindy.
On New Ways, "Bridge..." should have been a Mary solo. I think it might have been interesting to have Cindy sing lead on "Is There A Place..." and maybe saving it for the Touch album in the place of "Time and Love". Mary should have had the solo on "Touch".
I think Frank Wilson focused on Jean's voice, particularly on the Touch album, rather than developing a new group sound. Smokey was able to return the group to form on the Floy Joy album, to some degree, but it was too little too late.
Nathan Jones was a good song. There was a lot of competition on the charts at the time. The 'girl group' sound was represented by Honey Cone with "Want Ads" and Jean Knight with "Mr Big Stuff", both Top 10. Motown, shooting itself in the foot, had 7 songs in the Top 100 including Diana with "Reach Out I'll Be There" and the Supremes and Four Tops with "You Gotta Have Love...".
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