Sorry i may have jumped to the conclusion too quickly. It's just that It's Better To Cry was written by Dave Blake and Frankie Nieves for Phil Medley's Starflower set up which is all totally NYC. I'm waiting on a reply from Dave about it, it could just have been that the song was picked up by the Detroit people.
Mel from Ormskirk mentioned the Tempests backing them on Soul Talk, I have no idea where he got that from.