Mary wells greatest hits rar11/30/2022 With no new material coming out, a new mix of The Tears of a Clown was produced and released. The song itself was ignored by Motown executives and never released as a single from Make It Happen.Motown Records was notoriously (or famously) known for a stringent process that each potential single underwent, so not initially seeing the potential behind the song is mystifying.Three years later in 1970, the Miracles (and other Motown artists) received a boost in popularity via UK DJs playing the upbeat Tamla recordings that we currently refer to as Northern Soul. The music was written by Stevie Wonder with Robinsons lyrics playing on the carnival feel of the calliope sound opening the track. The placement of this track cements my idea that the album should have been broken in half, with one side ballads and the other filled with the dance numbers.However, it is the album closer, The Tears of a Clown, that is perhaps the biggest (eventual) success of the album, as well as the key to a huge miscalculation on the part of Motown Records. Like fellow Tamla artist Earl Van Dykes Soul Stomp, the song blasts off right out of the gate and never lets up. The liveliest track on the album, ∽ancings Alright is a smoker that perfectly captures the hot sounds of Northern Soul. Just as you are getting into the groove, the tempo drops again with You Must Be Love, a gentle song that isnt sad but rather positive, a nice change in subject from the other ballads, despite interrupting the groove.The album closes with two awesome dance numbers, ∽ancings Alright and The Tears of a Clown. This is one of those songs that could have been farmed out to multiple acts in the Motown stable, especially Marvin Gaye. The go-go grooves are present along with the traditional Motown percussion progression (it was written by the powerhouse team behind many of Motowns hits Holland-Dozier-Holland).
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