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If the J5 recorded songs the Sylvers/Foster recorded, would they be hits? Sylvers had some bad tunes, but vocally they couldn't touch Mike or Jermaine.
Imagine if the Jacksons got their hands on some of those tracks.
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MICHAEL JACKSON: Always and Forever ----- Live Your Life How U Wanna Live It | |
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[Edited 1/5/13 12:57pm] PRINCE: Always and Forever
MICHAEL JACKSON: Always and Forever ----- Live Your Life How U Wanna Live It | |
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What if the Osmonds recorded them? You can take a black guy to Nashville from right out of the cotton fields with bib overalls, and they will call him R&B. You can take a white guy in a pin-stripe suit who’s never seen a cotton field, and they will call him country. ~ O. B. McClinton | |
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The Sylvers' music was very much tailored to their extreme vocal talents and deep harmony during Leon's time as bandleader, so I can't really picture the Jacksons doing justice to these. The Sylvers had far greater harmonic depth than the Jacksons did.
The Jacksons only did 3 part harmony while the Sylvers were like 6-7 parts deep. | |
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I was mainly talking about lead vocals. Those Foster Sylvers tracks I posted, if replaced with Mike would they be hits, (if released as singles?) PRINCE: Always and Forever
MICHAEL JACKSON: Always and Forever ----- Live Your Life How U Wanna Live It | |
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If the J5 were on the same label as the Sylvers at the time, they probably wouldn't have done much either. You can take a black guy to Nashville from right out of the cotton fields with bib overalls, and they will call him R&B. You can take a white guy in a pin-stripe suit who’s never seen a cotton field, and they will call him country. ~ O. B. McClinton | |
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i think mj could have handled 'misdemeanor', and he and jermaine could have done 'boogie fever' the way that foster and edmund did it.
freddie perren, who wrote some of the later j5 songs, wrote some of the sylvers songs. i don't know which ones though.
however, i think like someone else mentioned, the sylvers had stronger singers overall than the j5, and their harmonies were tighter. | |
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I think 'How Love Hurts' & 'Wish that I could talk to you' would have been a hit for the J5. 'Cotton Candy' has that old school J5 sound too imo. | |
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I always dug "Wish That I Could Talk to You" and the triple lead between Leon, Ricky and Edmund... | |
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For anyone that's interested, these 2 albums have been reissued, but appears to be vinyl only:
You can take a black guy to Nashville from right out of the cotton fields with bib overalls, and they will call him R&B. You can take a white guy in a pin-stripe suit who’s never seen a cotton field, and they will call him country. ~ O. B. McClinton | |
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^^ thanks for the heads up.I'm gonna order the first album. | |
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You're welcome. You can take a black guy to Nashville from right out of the cotton fields with bib overalls, and they will call him R&B. You can take a white guy in a pin-stripe suit who’s never seen a cotton field, and they will call him country. ~ O. B. McClinton | |
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