Interesting, fast-paced fun, too slight to be a single in its own right, but a good opportunity for singer and band to let their hair down; I’m just very intrigued to know what it sounded like before Hattie got to record it. (6)
Hattie could take heart in the fact she wouldn’t be the last Motown artist to suffer such a fate, and she’d be in some pretty good company. (6)
Probably the best record Herman Griffin ever made, and proof that he definitely had some real talent; it just wasn’t perhaps enough to make him a Motown success story. (5)
It’s good, but it’s a case of a few great bits balancing out a few awful bits, rather than the whole thing being the enjoyably lightweight romp it apparently thinks it is. (5)
I really rather like this. Your mileage may vary. Certainly, though, for me at least, this is the first good Marvin Gaye record, and in no small part because it’s also the first one that actually sounds like a Marvin Gaye record. (6)
You can almost feel the frustration of its creators, being so close to greatness and yet so far away. All in good time, Eddie Holland, all in good time. (4)
Definitely worth listening to for that excellent middle section, but the massive drag factor of the terrible two minutes either side of the really good bit mean the quality of the whole thing is brought crashing downwards. (4)
If anyone out there was ever listening to a Henry Lumpkin record and thought “You know what? This is good and everything, but I wish it featured more quacking“, well, they’re in luck. Everyone else can safely skip this one.
A dated, thin doo-wop dancer, another failed Motown attempt to re-do the Marcels’ Blue Moon and about half as charming.
If the stellar, never-to-be-recaptured magic of their début single had been something of a quirk, a statistical oddity if not an outright fluke, then in many ways the Marvelettes’ story really begins right here. (6)
This isn’t quite all it’s cracked up to be; it’s very pretty but quite meandering, effectively consisting of three great bits linked with a lot of unmemorable fluff. (4)
Motown Junkies 