The new lineup featuring Laurence set about recording The Supremes Produced and Arranged by Jimmy Webb, but it also sold poorly in spite of good reviews.

[1] When the proto-disco song (including the characteristic whistle sound of the discothèque experience) was first issued to radio in the summer of 1973, it caught some initial positive buzz mainly from the Supremes' American R&B fan base.

In a contemporary review for UK publication Record Mirror, James Hamilton expressed 'Stevie Wonder penned and produced the "A" side here especially for Jean Terrell: it's in his own current mould, which means full of weaving melodies and poly-rhythms — and like Stevie's own LPs, it slips by all too easily.

[2] "Bad Weather" was performed to a receptive audience on Soul Train, but the buzz wore down as, according to Mary Wilson years later, it wasn't a favorite of Terrell's or Laurence's.

As years went by the Stevie Wonder song became a cult favorite, and it was covered in 1978 by Melissa Manchester in her LP Don't Cry Out Loud, and by Dutch singer Mathilde Santing in her 1994 album Under a Blue Roof.