The funky "My Momma Didn't Lie" would surely have been smash if it'd had the prerequisite airplay and promotion. But alas, that's something that could be said about most of her recordings.

Johnnie Mae resurrected her Northern label at the tail end of the 70's with two more releases. But by then the whole music business had changed way beyond recognition from when she'd first started out; it was no longer possible to turn up at a radio station, befriend the DJ and get your 45 played on the spot. Multi-track recording had seriously jacked-up session costs, and delivering records to neighborhood mom and pop stores from the back of a car was history. Without ever really establishing herself outside of Michigan she focused her energy on producing The ADC Band, and drifted out of the limelight.