You Can't Hurry Love

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"You Can't Hurry Love"
Supremes You cant hurry love.png
US single release
Single by the Supremes
from the album The Supremes A' Go-Go
B-side "Put Yourself in My Place"
ReleasedJuly 25, 1966
RecordedJune 11 and July 5, 1966
Studio Hitsville U.S.A. (Studio A)
Genre
Length2:44
Label Motown
M 1097
Songwriter(s) Holland–Dozier–Holland
Producer(s)
The Supremes singles chronology
"Love Is Like an Itching in My Heart"
(1966)
"You Can't Hurry Love"
(1966)
"You Keep Me Hangin' On"
(1966)
The Supremes A' Go-Go track listing

"You Can't Hurry Love" is a song originally recorded by the Supremes on the Motown label. It was released on July 25, 1966 as the second single from their studio album The Supremes A' Go-Go .

Contents

Written and produced by Motown production team Holland–Dozier–Holland, the song topped the US Billboard Hot 100, made the top five in the UK, and top 10 in Australia. It was released and peaked in late summer and early autumn in 1966. [1] Sixteen years later, it became a number-one hit in the UK when Phil Collins re-recorded the song. It reached number one on the UK Singles Chart for two weeks beginning in January 1983 [2] and reached number 10 on the US Billboard Hot 100 a month later.

Billboard named the song number 19 on their list of 100 Greatest Girl Group Songs of All Time. [3] The BBC ranked "You Can't Hurry Love" at number 16 on The Top 100 Digital Motown Chart, which is based solely on all time UK downloads and streams of Motown releases. [4]

History

Overview

Billboard advertisement, August 13, 1966 You Can't Hurry Love - ad 1966.png
Billboard advertisement, August 13, 1966

The song, a memory of a mother's words of encouragement ("My mama said 'you can't hurry love/No you just have to wait' ") [5] telling her daughter that with patience she will find that special someone one day, is an example of the strong influence of gospel music present in much of R&B and soul music. "You Can't Hurry Love" was inspired by and partially based upon "(You Can't Hurry God) He's Right on Time" ("You can't hurry God/you just have to wait/Trust and give him time/no matter how long it takes"), a 1950s gospel song written by Dorothy Love Coates of the Original Gospel Harmonettes. [6]

The recorded version of "You Can't Hurry Love" showcases the developing sound of the Supremes, who were progressing from their earlier teen-pop into more mature themes and musical arrangements. This song and "You Keep Me Hangin' On" were finished together; when it came time to choose which single would be issued first, Motown's Quality Control department chose "You Can't Hurry Love."

Written and produced by Motown's main production team, Holland–Dozier–Holland, "You Can't Hurry Love" is one of the signature Supremes songs, and also one of Motown's signature releases. Billboard described the single as "the group's most exciting side to date" with "top vocal" and "exceptional instrumental backing." [7] Cash Box said that it is a "pulsating pop-r&b rhythmic ode which contends that romance is a slow-developing game of give-and-take." [8] Record World called it "a wonderful and happy sounding tune, chirped by the Supremes, with bells and banjos." [9]

The single became the Supremes' seventh number-one hit, [10] topping the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart for two weeks, from September 4 to September 17, 1966, and reaching number one on the soul chart for two weeks. The group performed the song on the CBS variety program The Ed Sullivan Show on Sunday, September 25, 1966. [11]

"You Can't Hurry Love" was the second single from the Supremes' album The Supremes A' Go-Go . It reached the number one position on the Billboard Hot 100 pop chart in the United States, and number three in the United Kingdom. The Supremes' version of the song is honored by inclusion in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's permanent collection of 500 Songs that Shaped Rock and Roll.

The Supremes also released a version sung in Italian: "L'amore verrà" ("Love Will Come").

Personnel

Chart performance

Certifications

RegionCertification Certified units/sales
Denmark (IFPI Danmark) [33] Gold45,000
Italy (FIMI) [34] Gold25,000*
United Kingdom (BPI) [35]
Sales since 2004
Platinum600,000
United States1,000,000 [36] [37] [38]

* Sales figures based on certification alone.
Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone.

Phil Collins version

"You Can't Hurry Love"
Phil Collins YouCantHurryLove.jpg
Artwork for European and Australian releases
Single by Phil Collins
from the album Hello, I Must Be Going!
B-side
  • "Do You Know, Do You Care?" (North America)
  • "I Cannot Believe It's True" (international)
Released19 November 1982 (UK) [39]
RecordedMay–June 1982
Genre
Length2:56
Label
Songwriter(s) Holland–Dozier–Holland
Producer(s)
Phil Collins singles chronology
"Thru These Walls"
(1982)
"You Can't Hurry Love"
(1982)
"I Don't Care Anymore"
(1983)
Music video
"You Can't Hurry Love" on YouTube

The most notable cover of the song was released in November 1982 as a single by Phil Collins from his second solo album, Hello, I Must Be Going! Collins's version reached number one on the UK Singles Chart for two weeks in January 1983 (becoming his first number-one solo hit on the UK Singles Chart, [2] and peaking two positions higher than the original song did in that country), and reached number 10 in the United States (his first top 10 single in the U.S.). [41] The single was certified gold in the UK. [39] The song spent a week at number 1 in Ireland in January 1983. [42] The orchestral strings on this track were recorded in Studio 1 at CBS Recording Studios, London W1 by Recording Engineer Mike Ross-Trevor (assisted by Richard Hollywood) on the evening of Thursday, June 24, 1982. Collins's cover was both virtuoso, and at the same time, the most popular Collins performance effort to date, and thus considerably his breakthrough work as a solo artist.

Collins said that "The idea of doing 'Can't Hurry Love' was to see if Hugh Padgham and I could duplicate that Sixties sound. It's very difficult today because most recording facilities are so much more sophisticated than they were back then. It's therefore hard to make the drums sound as rough as they did on the original. That's what we were going after, a remake, not an interpretation, but a remake." [43]

In 1983, the music video was released on the home video Phil Collins, available on Video Home System (VHS) and LaserDisc (LD), which received a Grammy nomination for Best Video, Short Form. [44] The song itself was also the first track featured on the first release of the NOW That's What I Call Music compilation series.

Personnel

Chart performance

Certifications

RegionCertification Certified units/sales
Denmark (IFPI Danmark) [66] Platinum90,000
Germany (BVMI) [67] Gold250,000
Italy (FIMI) [68] Gold35,000
Netherlands (NVPI) [69] Gold100,000^
Spain (PROMUSICAE) [70] Platinum60,000
United Kingdom (BPI) [71]
Physical
Gold500,000^
United Kingdom (BPI) [72]
Digital
Platinum600,000

^ Shipments figures based on certification alone.
Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone.

Other notable cover versions

See also

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