The Utopians

[robb_k]

Here's The Motown cut from Cellarful 4:

[robb_k]

Reprinted below, with The Utopias' video.

[johnny_raven]

I'm sorry, but, I just can't believe that that White all-male Brooklyn Doo-Wop group from 1958 morphed into an all female group recording in Detroit at Motown, 10 years later, when I remember a female Detroit Soul group [[with a name only 1 letter off [[Utopias)) who recorded for 2 small, local Detroit labels in the mid and late 1960s [[Fortune and La Salle Records). I have a feeling that Motown recorded the Detroit girls group, and the "n" in the group name was a misprint in Motown's record keeping, which wasn't corrected because the group never had a release.

The group you're referring to was all white as well with 1 male and 2 females. Needless to say, they don't sound like Motown's Utopians.

[robb_k]

The group you're referring to was all white as well with 1 male and 2 females. Needless to say, they don't sound like Motown's Utopians.

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Can you please blow up the text under the picture and add it in another post, so I can read it? I'm curious about the fortune group. That photo doesn't look like I pictured them all these years, from hearing the record I bought back in 1965.

[marv2]

Here's The Motown cut from Cellarful 4:

That sounds like a woman singing.

[robb_k]

That sounds like a woman singing.

Of course it is a woman. The background singers COULD possibly be all 3 of Lasley's group, with a separate track of one of the two women on lead. The background singers sound like a mix of one man and one or two women.

[marv2]

Of course it is a woman. The background singers COULD possibly be all 3 of Lasley's group, with a separate track of one of the two women on lead. The background singers sound like a mix of one man and one or two women.

Got it. They actually do not sound bad at all.

[144man]

Of course it is a woman. The background singers COULD possibly be all 3 of Lasley's group, with a separate track of one of the two women on lead. The background singers sound like a mix of one man and one or two women.

Just to prove it's a woman on lead, in the second verse Smokey sings "the guys I hang around..." whereas the Utopians sing "the girls I hang around...".