It's not exactly fair to peg the Undisputed Truth as a one-hit
wonder, because they did have a few hits for Motown in the first
half of the 1970s (albeit only one big one), as well as made
half a dozen albums for the label. Still, it's not that far from
the truth. Nothing else they did matched the strength of
"Smiling Faces Sometimes," which made number three in 1971.
Crafted by Norman Whitfield, Motown's most adventurous producer
of the time, it employed the funk-psychedelic guitars and
ominous, socially aware lyrics that were also characteristic of
his work with the Temptations during the period.  The Undisputed
Truth came into being after Bobby Taylor brought Billie Rae
Calvin and Brenda Joyce to Motown as part of the Delicates. When
the Delicates broke up, the pair kept busy doing background
vocals for the Four Tops, Diana Ross, and Edwin Starr. Whitfield
teamed them up with Joe Harris of the Preps, laying the
groundwork for the male-female vocal interplay that would typify
their Motown sessions.  It's fa