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Post by chainreaction on Aug 5, 2017 11:52:08 GMT
Thanxal darling, you verbosity is exceeded only by your stupidity honeybuch. Thank you. You spoke for everyone regarding fric and frac - the tag team. Thanks dear. I will continue my crusade ignorance and hypocrisy.
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Post by ranran on Aug 5, 2017 19:38:48 GMT
Why doesn't Wilson just fess-up in one of these interviews and say her voice is not on most of the classic hit recordings ?? She could honestly say, "I was part of Diana Ross and the Supremes stage show, but not used very often in the recording studio." Well that idiotic comment has done exactly what it set out to do, so hopefully we can rise above it and get back to the topic at hand, the legendary Mary Wilson promoting the 50th anniversary of "Where Did Our Love Go". The song is so simple when you think about it. Nothing is complicated about the tune. I think it was Gordy who said that he figured the song might go top 20 but that was about it. I think at the time I would've agreed. I wouldn't have ever thought this was a number one record. Yet somehow all of the ingredients- Diana's subdued vocal, Mary and Flo's cooing, the Funk Brothers simple pace, HDH's pleading lyric- came together in a monster hit that sent the previous "no hit" Supremes into the musical stratosphere. Whodathunkit? Of the hit singles, "Where Did Our Love Go" probably ties with "Love Is Here" for my all time favorite.
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Post by thanxal on Aug 5, 2017 19:42:12 GMT
Thanks. I have B-ADHD (blog ADHD), so steering me back to the topic is always welcome.
I am a bit surprised that no alternates of it have ever been released, esp. on the WDOLG Expanded Edition. Can anyone recall Andy or George discussing alternate versions/vocals (not alternate mixes)?
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Post by ranran on Aug 5, 2017 19:43:08 GMT
Right you are Luke, in that the songs were brilliant. "Where" and "Heat" sound as different as night and day, yet both are perfect examples of the Motown Sound. I've always heard that it was "Come and Get These Memories" that Gordy credited with being the start of what we refer to as the Motown Sound, but I think I would give the distinction to "Heat Wave". Can anyone think of a more Motown sounding song before "Heat Wave"?
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Post by ranran on Aug 5, 2017 19:43:29 GMT
I hadn't heard about any previous background vocals being worked for this song, but it doesn't surprise me. When you compare this to what the girls normally did in the background it seems so left field. I'm guessing that after Diana laid her vocal down that whatever complex backing vocals Flo and Mary came up with (or HDH came up with) might have seemed like it didn't fit so they went with something simple. I'm guessing here, of course.
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Post by ranran on Aug 5, 2017 19:43:45 GMT
I would love an alternate of the song (other than, perhaps, the German version) and I'm ticked that after 1965 they don't seem to have performed it anymore, which I find really strange considering how big it was and how important the song was to their career. But based off of the way the recording session for "Where Did Our Love Go" is supposed to have gone (with Diana attempting the song in a more jazzy/soulful way only to be interrupted and told that's not what they want from her on this song, and she getting pissed and doing the song in one take) that there wouldn't be an alternate of it. I'm guessing that if there had been- at least one that had been found at the time- it would have been on the expanded collection. But I would love to know what Andy or George have to say about it.
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Post by vgalindo on Aug 5, 2017 19:44:46 GMT
I believe it was said that Mary and Florence were not on the released single.
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Post by Kathleen Henderson on Aug 5, 2017 22:55:48 GMT
Mary, I think it is very nice of you to be so forgiving to Diane, but I think she has gotten ‘too big for her britches” First of all, she never had the natural beauty of you and Florence. She was skinny and homely. Next, she wasn’t that hot of a singer. She proved disloyal, a hussy and a self-promoter above everything
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Post by mpn1jco on Aug 6, 2017 1:56:03 GMT
I swear some of the stuff I read in this forum has the potential to rot the brain. What the hell else was she supposed to talk about about but the past? You are guilty of everything you accuse other members of. You and Thanxal are the biggest hypocrites to hit the internet.
"Yes, I am the resident snitch"
Are you retarded or what?
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Post by mpn1jco on Aug 6, 2017 2:04:50 GMT
Why doesn't Wilson just fess-up in one of these interviews and say her voice is not on most of the classic hit recordings ?? She could honestly say, "I was part of Diana Ross and the Supremes stage show, but not used very often in the recording studio." Well that idiotic comment has done exactly what it set out to do, so hopefully we can rise above it and get back to the topic at hand, the legendary Mary Wilson promoting the 50th anniversary of "Where Did Our Love Go". The song is so simple when you think about it. Nothing is complicated about the tune. I think it was Gordy who said that he figured the song might go top 20 but that was about it. I think at the time I would've agreed. I wouldn't have ever thought this was a number one record. Yet somehow all of the ingredients- Diana's subdued vocal, Mary and Flo's cooing, the Funk Brothers simple pace, HDH's pleading lyric- came together in a monster hit that sent the previous "no hit" Supremes into the musical stratosphere. Whodathunkit? Of the hit singles, "Where Did Our Love Go" probably ties with "Love Is Here" for my all time favorite. What about the idiotic comments you post RanRan? That post about Ross having soul certifies you as the world's only living brain donor. Oh I'd better careful because you are going to report me to your esteemed leader Ralph T., after all you all the resident snitch.
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