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TomatoTom123.....
Katherine Anderson of The Marvelettes :
"I don't know that no longer singing background on recordings bothered me. It boiled down to a point that this was your job, so it was a form of eliminating you from your job. The only time your importance was noticed was when you began to perform out on the stage......Fortunately, the young lady who sang the parts that I sang, our tones were very, very close. It wasn't that hard for me to duplicate......Our main thing at that point was just learning to perform. We would've liked to have done our own background but....I think it was a time-saving thing".
Louvain Demps of The Andantes :
"Their harmonies were a little sharp, and ours were a little more rounded. Putting them together, they came out nice. We were all in the studio together. What they would do was lower their sound and pull ours up. If it weren't quite like what they wanted, they would pull us up a little more. After awhile, it kind of got so they put us on there instead of the girls.....I don't think anyone started out thinking that we're taking his or her job or anything like that. We were paid to do what we did"
extracts from 'The Original Marvelettes : Motown's Mystery Girl Group', by Marc Taylor, pages 131-132
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