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Greatest Hits | ||||
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Released | August 29, 1967 | |||
Recorded | 1963–1967 | |||
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Length | 55:02 | |||
Label | Motown | |||
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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.
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. By December 28,1968,the album had raised more than $3 million in sales. [3] Greatest Hits spent three weeks at number one on the UK Albums Chart. [4] In 2018,the Official Charts Company published that The Supremes' Greatest Hits (1967) has a total of 60 weeks in the UK top 40;making it the 4th "longest-reigning Top 40 girl group album ever". [5]
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.
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.
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United States | — | 1,000,000 [16] |
"Reflections" is a 1967 song recorded by The Supremes for the Motown label. It was the first Supremes record released under the new billing,Diana Ross &the Supremes,and is among their last hit singles to be written and produced by Motown's main production team Holland–Dozier–Holland (H–D–H).
"Baby Love" is a song by American music group the Supremes from their second studio album,Where Did Our Love Go. It was written and produced by Motown's main production team Holland–Dozier–Holland and was released on September 17,1964.
"I Hear a Symphony" is a 1965 song recorded by the Supremes for the Motown label.
"You Keep Me Hangin' On" is a song written and composed by Holland–Dozier–Holland. It was first recorded in 1966 by American Motown girl group the Supremes,reaching number one on the Billboard Hot 100. American rock band Vanilla Fudge released a cover version in June the following year,which reached number six on the Billboard Hot 100. English singer Kim Wilde covered "You Keep Me Hangin' On" in 1986,reaching number one on the Billboard Hot 100 in June 1987. In the first 32 years of the Billboard Hot 100 rock era,"You Keep Me Hangin' On" became one of the six songs to reach number one by two different musical acts. In 1996,American country singer Reba McEntire's version reached number two on the US Billboard Hot Dance Club Play chart. The BBC ranked the Supremes' original song at number 78 on The Top 100 Digital Motown Chart,which ranks Motown releases by their all-time UK downloads and streams.
American girl group The Supremes have released 29 studio albums,four live albums,two soundtrack albums,32 compilation albums,four box sets,66 singles and three promotional singles. The Supremes are the most successful American group of all-time,and the 26th greatest artist of all time on the US Billboard charts;with 12 number-one songs on the Billboard Hot 100 and three number-one albums on the Billboard 200. The Supremes were the first artist to accumulate five consecutive number-one singles on the US Hot 100 and the first female group to top the Billboard 200 albums chart with The Supremes A' Go-Go (1966). In 2017,Billboard ranked The Supremes as the number-one girl group of all-time,publishing,'although there have been many girl group smashes in the decades since the Supremes ruled the Billboard charts,no collective has yet to challenge their,for lack of a better word,supremacy.' In 2019,the Official Charts Company placed 7 Supremes songs—"You Can't Hurry Love" (16),"Baby Love" (23),"Stop! In The Name Of Love" (56),"Where Did Our Love Go?" (59),"You Keep Me Hangin' On" (78),"Come See About Me" (94) and "Stoned Love" (99)—on The Official Top 100 Motown songs of the Millennium chart,which ranks Motown releases by their all-time UK downloads and streams.
TCB is a 1968 television special produced by Motown Productions and George Schlatter–Ed Friendly Productions of Laugh-In fame. The special is a musical revue starring Motown's two most popular groups at the time,Diana Ross &the Supremes and The Temptations. Containing a combination of showtunes,specially prepared numbers,and popular Motown hits,the special was taped before a live studio audience in September 1968 and originally broadcast December 9,1968 on NBC,sponsored by the Timex watch corporation. The title of the program uses a then-popular acronym,"TCB",which stands for "Taking Care of Business".
Diana Ross &the Supremes Join the Temptations is,as the title implies,a collaborative album combining Motown's two best selling groups,Diana Ross &the Supremes and the Temptations. Issued by Motown in late 1968 to coincide with the broadcast of the Supremes/Temptations TCB television special,the album was a success,reaching #2 on the Billboard 200. Diana Ross &the Supremes Join the Temptations spent four weeks at number one on the UK Albums Chart.
Reflections is the twelfth studio album recorded for Motown by Diana Ross &the Supremes. Released in 1968,it was the first regular studio LP to display the new billing of the group formerly known as "The Supremes." It contains the singles "Reflections","In and Out of Love" and "Forever Came Today". Also included are covers of songs made famous by Martha and the Vandellas and The 5th Dimension. Also present are songs written by other famous names,including "Bah-Bah-Bah" co-written by Motown singer Brenda Holloway with her younger sister,Patrice,an original Smokey Robinson composition titled "Then",and "What the World Needs Now Is Love" by Burt Bacharach and Hal David,which Motown planned to release as a single in the spring of 1968,but cancelled. It also contains a cover of Bobbie Gentry's "Ode to Billie Joe," whose original recording kept the single #2 "Reflections" from peaking at the top spot on the Billboard Hot 100 in September 1967,and it hit #2 on Cashbox.
Where Did Our Love Go is the second studio album by Motown singing group the Supremes,released in 1964. The album includes several of the group's singles and B-sides from 1963 and 1964. Included are the group's first Billboard Pop Singles number-one hits,"Where Did Our Love Go","Baby Love",and "Come See About Me",as well as their first Top 40 hit,"When the Lovelight Starts Shining Through His Eyes",and the singles "A Breathtaking Guy" and "Run,Run,Run".
"Love Is Here and Now You're Gone" is a 1967 song recorded by the Supremes for the Motown label.
The Supremes Sing Holland–Dozier–Holland is the tenth studio album released by The Supremes for Motown in 1967. It includes the number-one hit singles "You Keep Me Hangin' On" and "Love Is Here and Now You're Gone". As the title states:all songs on the album were written and produced by Motown's main songwriting team of Holland–Dozier–Holland. Most of the album was recorded during the spring and summer of 1966;however several songs date back to the summer of 1964.
More Hits by The Supremes is the sixth studio album by Motown singing group the Supremes,released in 1965. The album includes two number-one hits:"Stop! In the Name of Love" and "Back in My Arms Again",as well as the Top 20 single "Nothing but Heartaches".
Meet the Supremes is the debut studio album by The Supremes,released in late 1962 on Motown.
I Hear a Symphony is the eighth studio album released by American girl group the Supremes on the Motown label in 1966.
Diana Ross &the Supremes:Greatest Hits Vol. 3 is a 1969 compilation album by Diana Ross &the Supremes,released on the Motown label. It features all of the hits released by the group between 1967 and 1969 save for the Supremes/Temptations duet singles. After Florence Ballard's mid-1967 departure from the group,Supremes singles were recorded by Diana Ross with session singers The Andantes on backgrounds instead of new Supreme Cindy Birdsong and founding member Mary Wilson,including "Love Child" and "Someday We'll Be Together".
"When the Lovelight Starts Shining Through His Eyes" is a song written by Holland–Dozier–Holland and recorded in 1963 by Motown singing group The Supremes. It is notable as the Supremes' first Billboard Hot 100 Top 40 recording,following seven previous singles between January 1961 and September 1963 which failed to enter the Top 40. The single is also notable as the first Supremes single written and produced by Holland–Dozier–Holland,who had previously created hits for Martha and the Vandellas and Mary Wells.
"In and Out of Love" is a 1967 song recorded by The Supremes for the Motown label. It was the second single issued with the group's new billing of Diana Ross &the Supremes,the penultimate Supremes single written and produced by Motown production team Holland–Dozier–Holland,and the last single to feature the vocals of original member Florence Ballard.
"Some Things You Never Get Used To" is a song released in 1968 by Diana Ross &the Supremes on the Motown label. The single stalled for three weeks at number 30 on the U.S. Billboard pop chart in July 1968. It became the lowest-charting Supremes single since 1963 and became the catalyst for Berry Gordy to revamp songwriting for The Supremes since the loss of Motown's premier production team Holland–Dozier–Holland,whom Gordy had assigned as the group's sole producers after the success of "When the Lovelight Starts Shining Through His Eyes."
20 Golden Greats is a 1977 compilation album by Diana Ross &the Supremes,released on the Motown label in the United Kingdom. The release spent seven weeks at number one on the UK Albums Chart,selling over 1,000,000 copies. Despite the album's title and that Ross &the Supremes had scored 21 UK chart hit singles,the compilation included two tracks that had never been hit singles in the UK:"My World Is Empty Without You" and "Love Is Like an Itching in My Heart",which were top 10 hits on the US Hot 100. All the other 18 tracks had made the UK singles chart. The three other hits scored by the group in partnership with The Temptations,were all excluded.
"Where Did Our Love Go" is a 1964 song recorded by American music group the Supremes for the Motown label.