Berry Gordy could be a difficult boss at Motown. This languished in their vaults for several years from various acts, basically because Gordy didn’t care for the song. He even managed to get it spiked from another label, until eventually Tony Bennett had a Top 10 easy listening hit. Those takes were all very slow; Stevie Wonder did a far more uptempo version here but Gordy sat on this as a single for over a year. He finally relented, and Stevie scored not just a huge hit but a signature song.
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Bosses DON'T always have a good sense of "What's best for", do they?
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