(DIR) Return Create A Forum - Home --------------------------------------------------------- Motown Treasures (HTM) https://motowntreasures.createaforum.com --------------------------------------------------------- ***************************************************** (DIR) Return to: Barbara Randolph ***************************************************** #Post#: 10582-------------------------------------------------- You Can't Hurry Love By: humboldt Date: July 15, 2023, 5:51 pm --------------------------------------------------------- A waste of a good voice! What do you think? (HTM) https://youtu.be/HRxAuyGWpWU #Post#: 10587-------------------------------------------------- Re: You Can't Hurry Love By: DDinVirginia Date: July 15, 2023, 10:46 pm --------------------------------------------------------- Definitely a song that could never be improved upon but I think this version is OK. I assume it came from the Ian Levine collection...... #Post#: 10589-------------------------------------------------- Re: You Can't Hurry Love By: Roger Date: July 16, 2023, 6:15 am --------------------------------------------------------- I'm not sure if I'd ever heard it before but I thought it was O.K. It's well sung and I've heard far worse. As DDinVirginia suspected it is an Ian Levine production. It seems that there was an entire CD of Mr Levine's HDH re-creations released in 1995 called "The Very Best Detroit Dance Hits-21 Holland-Dozier-Holland Classics" and this version of "You Can't Hurry Love" is included. (HTM) https://www.45worlds.com/cdalbum/cd/pwks4270 Having listened to some of the tracks on YT I don't think that I'll be seeking out the CD but Syreeta's version of "Reflections" sounds good to me ... (HTM) https://youtu.be/mnb--gfgoHw :) Roger #Post#: 10591-------------------------------------------------- Re: You Can't Hurry Love By: Paul Nixon Date: July 16, 2023, 8:00 am --------------------------------------------------------- You know I an had a big heart and honest intentions when it came to recreating the Motown sound and giving all those artists the opportunity to record again. Many of them are less than complimentary to Ian but I have to say who else would have given them the time of day let alone give them the opportunity to record again. His problems came about as he wanted to do just too much - many of the record companies that dealt with Motorcity gave up after being told they had to release so many LP's and singles every month, there just wasn't the sales to be had for the volume of material being released and then there was the blatant use of the oh so eighties snyths instead of real backing music. If Ian had slowed down a bit - released fewer tracks and could have afforded real musicians he may well have done better - then there was the marketing - you just could not get behind so many tracks. In fact the only one that did really well was the late Frances Nero's, Footsteps which did the best of any of Motorcity's tunes but only because it was leased out to Debut/Passion and they only had one track to work on. A terrible shame and a missed opportunity - a pity there's no money there to do a Royal Philharmonic in a smaller way on some of the better Motorcity tracks. *****************************************************