remicks said:
I'm actually glad to see that Capitol decided to put some muscle behind
Gloria Jones' "
BRING ON THE LOVE " . It deserved to be a bigger hit .
It was very rare to couple two different acts on the same 12" and I bet this incident served as a future reference as to why it's a bad idea. Orginally Capitol probably figured , "
Hell, we're sending out one song to all the DJ's .....why not double our bang for the buck and work two songs at the same time" ......
Trouble is when one song is so strong, like
BOOOGIE OOGIE OOGIE ....... it can't help but make the other song seem inferior by comparison.
One other problem with the situation ..... while I think the
Gloria Jones number is terrific...... I think the disco angle was not their best approach for this song in the first place ..... should've been worked more heavily through the R&B stations .......I bet in the long run somebody got their ass regally chewed over this entire marketing strategy

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