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Greatest Hits (The Supremes album)

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Released
  
August 29, 1967

Length
  
55:02

Artist
  
The Supremes

Label
  
Motown/Universal Records

Recorded
  
1963–1967

Greatest Hits (1967)
  
Reflections (1968)

Release date
  
29 August 1967

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Genres
  
Soul music, Rhythm and blues, Pop music, Soundtrack

Producers
  
Brian Holland, Lamont Dozier

Similar
  
The Supremes albums, Soul music albums

The supremes when the lovelight starts shining through his eyes


Diana Ross & the Supremes: Greatest Hits (also released as The Supremes: Greatest Hits) is a two-LP collection of singles and b-sides recorded by The Supremes, released by Motown in August 1967 (see 1967 in music). The collection was the first LP to credit the group under the new billing Diana Ross & the Supremes. Although founding member Florence Ballard is pictured on all album artwork and sings on all the tracks, by the time the set was released, she had been fired from the group and replaced by Cindy Birdsong.

Contents

It would rank as their second #1 album holding a distinction that it would take decades for another female group to achieve. The 2-LP set topped the Billboard Album Chart for 5 consecutive weeks, spending 20 weeks in the top 5 and 24 weeks total in the top 10. It remained on the Billboard Album Chart for 89 weeks. According to Motown data the album eventually sold over 6,200,000 copies.

The supremes ask any girl 1964


Overview

Greatest Hits includes fifteen Supremes singles, 10 of which went to number-one, among them were "Where Did Our Love Go", "Stop! In the Name of Love", "You Can't Hurry Love", and the most recent Supremes number-one, "The Happening" (a non-album track from the 1967 film of the same name). Also included are five popular Supremes B-sides: "Standing at the Crossroads of Love", "Ask Any Girl", "There's No Stopping Us Now", "Everything is Good About You", and "Whisper You Love Me Boy".

The packaging for the set includes liner notes by actress Carol Channing (which were originally written for an unreleased album "The Supremes and The Motown Sound: From Broadway To Hollywood") and paintings by Robert Taylor, including collectable 12 inch by 12 inch pin-up portraits of Diana Ross, Florence Ballard, and Mary Wilson. Greatest Hits was their second number-one album on the Billboard 200 and their fifth on the Billboard R&B Albums charts in the United States. It also reached the top of the pop album chart in the United Kingdom. The album sold over six million copies, world-wide as of 1988. However, it was never accorded Platinum Status as Motown did not submit to RIAA Certification until years later. Although not nominally credited because of their increasingly estranged relationship with Motown, all of the songs included were produced by the songwriting/production team of Holland–Dozier–Holland.

Release

  • Greatest Hits was released overseas in some markets shortened to one LP. The track listing for this version includes only the major singles, omitting "Ask Any Girl", "Standing at the Crossroads of Love", "Everything is Good About You", "There's No Stopping Us Now", "When the Lovelight Starts Shining Through His Eyes", and "Run, Run, Run".
  • Diana Ross & the Supremes: Greatest Hits is regularly referred to as Diana Ross & the Supremes: Greatest Hits, Vols. 1 & 2, as its 1969 single-disc follow-up is titled Greatest Hits Vol. 3. Volume 3 was also a million seller. The double-LP was issued by Motown as two separate halves in 1986. Greatest Hits, Greatest Hits, Vol. 3, and The Supremes at Their Best (A greatest hits collection for the post-Ross 1970s Supremes) were compiled and issued as The Supremes: Gold in 2005.

    • Track listing

    All songs produced by Brian Holland and Lamont Dozier. All songs written by Holland–Dozier–Holland unless otherwise noted. Superscripts denote original album sources, referenced below.

    Side 1

    1. "When the Lovelight Starts Shining Through His Eyes" a – 2:38
    2. "Where Did Our Love Go" a – 2:30
    3. "Ask Any Girl" a, b – 2:44
    4. "Baby Love" a – 2:37
    5. "Run, Run, Run" a – 2:30

    Side 2

    1. "Stop! In the Name of Love" b – 2:53
    2. "Back in My Arms Again" b – 2:52
    3. "Come See About Me" a – 2:42
    4. "Nothing but Heartaches" b – 2:57
    5. "Everything is Good About You" (James Dean, Edward Holland, Jr.) c – 2:57

    Side 3

    1. "I Hear a Symphony" c – 2:38
    2. "Love Is Here and Now You're Gone" e – 2:46
    3. "My World Is Empty Without You" c – 2:33
    4. "Whisper You Love Me Boy" b – 2:40
    5. "The Happening" (Holland-Dozier-Holland, Frank De Vol) – 2:49

    Side 4

    1. "You Keep Me Hangin' On" e – 2:40
    2. "You Can't Hurry Love" d – 2:45
    3. "Standing at the Crossroads of Love" a – 2:27
    4. "Love Is Like an Itching in My Heart" d – 2:55
    5. "There's No Stopping Us Now" e – 2:55

    Notes

  • a from Where Did Our Love Go (1964)
  • b from More Hits by The Supremes (1965)
  • c from I Hear a Symphony (1966)
  • d from The Supremes A' Go-Go (1966):
  • e from The Supremes Sing Holland–Dozier–Holland (1967)
  • "The Happening" is new to album. The single "Reflections" was originally also intended for inclusion, but was heldover and replaced with "Standing in The Crossroads of Love". "Reflections" was included on the subsequent Reflections LP in March 1968.

    • Personnel

  • Diana Ross – lead vocals
  • Mary Wilson – background vocals
  • Florence Ballard – background vocals
  • Marlene Barrow – background vocals (on "You Can't Hurry Love")
  • Brian Holland – producer
  • Lamont Dozier – producer
  • The Funk Brothers – instrumentation on all tracks except for "Love Is Here and Now You're Gone".

    • Songs

    1When the Lovelight Starts Shining Through His Eyes2:39
    2Where Did Our Love Go2:33
    3Ask Any Girl2:43

    References

    Greatest Hits (The Supremes album) Wikipedia
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