Thanks Sandie.

As you say. The music business.

I hope she is well and still with us!

Motown😡😡😡😱😱

Likewise Henry.

What would Miss Louvain be bitter about?

Yes they are I just love the way they did the background the majority of the Motown singers especially Edwin Starr in the holidays at The Temptations It's Growing and another favorite of The Temptations not now I'll tell you later. Voices From Heaven

Moutton Noir probably not able to show bitterness because she along with other are brainwashed. Not to bite the hands that feeds you. She begun singing at 19 years old for Motown. In order to remain employed there she and other went to the school of hard knocks. Please I don’t want to be misunderstood my reason for saying these things are because I watched other documentary about the women voices behind Motown hits the Andantes were only mentioned and the pay was chicken chains.

I read somewhere that not all the Motown groups appreciated the Andantes singing on their records. For example, I read that David Ruffin of the Temptations once locked the Andantes out of a recording session, feeling that the five Temptations were perfectly capable of handling the different vocal parts without adding the additional voices of the Andantes. I don't remember where I read this so I cannot verify the source of this information. I guess the feeling was that adding the voices of the Andantes into a Temptations' record would somehow diminish the importance of the five group members. I can understand this feeling, since when the group sings the song live, they are not going to have the Andantes on stage with them and the song will not sound the same as the recording. When the Four Tops sang "Just Ask The Lonely" live it did not sound at all like the record, because the Andantes did not accompany the Four Tops on the road. This can be disconcerting to a purist like me. Also in the biography written on the Marvelettes, group member Katherine Anderson expressed her reservations at having the Andantes sing with her or sub for her on the recordings after 1964. In fact, Katherine stated in her interview for the bio and in the documentary "Unsung" that she refused to pose on the album cover for the last Marvelettes album because it was the Andantes or other session singers who recorded most of the background singing on the album. Katherine felt it was insult to her to be asked to pose for an album cover for an album in which the Andantes do most of the background singing when she was perfectly capable of doing the background singing herself. Therefore, the final Marvelettes album had three faces on the cover of which two were blurred out and only lead singer Wanda Young's face appears since the other two Marvelettes refused to pose for the cover.

+JACK ANTHONY Your perception is really out of whack as to the inner-workings of the music business. While Ms Kat is bitter for what ultimately occurred with Marvellette's recordings, the sad reality is, the records had a different sound with the Andantes plus Ann Bogan of The Challengers, another early Motown product.

Thank you. It is true, I am not in the music business and therefore I do not know the inner workings of the music business. I am only a consumer who trusts that I am getting what the label says I am getting. So please inform us of the correct information so that I may correct my out of whack perceptions. I only know what I read so please feel free to use this space to provide us with the correct version.

It's Growing, Just Another Lonely Night,Last One Out Is Broken Hearted and That'll Be The Day and Love Woke Me Up This Morning, they sang with the Tempts on those songs. I've also read that Otis didn't want the Andantes singing with them and on those songs above that they did sing with The Tempts, their voices were supposed to be recorded much lower than the Tempts voices. I like what The Tempts did because they can sing their own material. People want to hear The Tempts sing, not the Andantes.

Tunes342 I agree with Otis of the Temptations. If I was a member of a vocal group I wouldn't want the Andantes singing on my records either. After all, unlike a single artist a vocal group is expected to supply its own lead singer as well as its own vocal harmony....that is what is expected of a vocal group. And yes, it is true, when people went to a live performance of the Temptations, the audience wanted to hear the Temptations not the Andantes. If the audience wanted to hear the Andantes with the Temptations then the Andantes would have their own microphone set up under or behind the stage during the live performance.

Mine Too,,I'm so happy to Say....ed