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The Supremes Sing Country, Western and Pop

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Released
  
February 22, 1965

Length
  
N/A

Release date
  
22 February 1965

Label
  
Motown/Universal Records

Recorded
  
1962 – 1965

Artist
  
The Supremes

Producer
  
Clarence Paul

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Genres
  
Soul music, Pop music, Country music

Similar
  
The Supremes albums, Soul music albums

The supremes funny how time slips away


The Supremes Sing Country, Western & Pop is the fourth studio album recorded by The Supremes, issued by Motown in February 1965 (see 1965 in music). The album was presented as a covers/tribute album of country songs, as Ray Charles had done with his album Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music. However, over half of the selections on The Supremes Sing Country, Western & Pop were written in-house by Motown staffer Clarence Paul. One of the songs on the album is "My Heart Can't Take It No More", which the Supremes had recorded in 1962 and released in 1963 as a single.

Contents

One of Paul's songwriting partners on the album was his fourteen-year-old charge Stevie Wonder, making the Supremes the first act besides Wonder himself to record Wonder's songs.

Motown's session group, The Andantes, appear on all but two of the tracks. They accompany Ross completely above Wilson and Ballard on "Baby Doll".

The album was a modest success peaking at #79 on the Billboard Top 200. It sold around 200,000 copies. Though the album did not make the Billboard Country Album charts, Diana would later record a couple of solo country singles most famously, "Sorry Doesn't Always Make it Right".

Track listing

  1. "Funny How Time Slips Away" (Willie Nelson, originally by Nelson)
  2. "My Heart Can't Take It No More" (Clarence Paul)
  3. "It Makes No Difference Now" (Floyd Tillman, originally by Eddy Arnold)
  4. "You Didn't Care" (Paul)
  5. "Tears in Vain" (Paul)
  6. "Tumbling Tumbleweeds" (Bob Nolan, originally by Sons of the Pioneers)
  7. "Lazy Bones" (Johnny Mercer, Hoagy Carmichael)
  8. "You Need Me"
  9. "Baby Doll" (Paul, Stevie Wonder)
  10. "Sunset" (Paul, Wonder)
  11. "(The Man With the) Rock and Roll Banjo Band" (Paul, Berry Gordy, Jr.)

Personnel

  • Diana Ross, Florence Ballard, and Mary Wilson: lead and background vocals
  • Clarence Paul: producer
  • Lawrence Horn: co-producer on "My Heart Can't Take It No More"
  • The Andantes and other vocalists: additional background vocals
  • Cranford Nix, Sr.: Banjo (some tracks)
  • Singles history

  • "My Heart Can't Take It No More" b/w "You Bring Back Memories" (from Meet the Supremes) (Motown 1040, February 2, 1963)
  • Songs

    1Funny How Time Slips Away3:12
    2My Heart Can't Take It No More2:58
    3It Makes No Difference Now3:28

    References

    The Supremes Sing Country, Western and Pop Wikipedia