Your Wonderful, Sweet Sweet Love

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"Your Wonderful, Sweet Sweet Love"
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1972 German single
Single by The Supremes
from the album Floy Joy
B-side "The Wisdom of Time"
ReleasedJuly 11, 1972
Recorded1972, Hitsville U.S.A.
Genre Pop, soul
Length3:00 (album/single version)
Label Motown
Songwriter(s) Smokey Robinson
Producer(s) Smokey Robinson
The Supremes singles chronology
"Without the One You Love"
(1972)
"Your Wonderful, Sweet Sweet Love"
(1972)
"I Guess I'll Miss the Man"
(1972)
Floy Joy track listing
9 tracks
Side one
  1. "Your Wonderful, Sweet Sweet Love"
  2. "Floy Joy"
  3. "A Heart Like Mine"
  4. "Over and Over"
  5. "Precious Little Things"
Side two
  1. "Now The Bitter, Now The Sweet"
  2. "Automatically Sunshine"
  3. "The Wisdom of Time"
  4. "Oh Be My Love"

"Your Wonderful, Sweet Sweet Love" is a song written by Smokey Robinson, recorded in October 1966 by Kim Weston. Her recording was not issued at the time as she left the label over a dispute over royalties in 1967. Weston's original version was first released in 2005.

Contents

The song was revisited and released as a single by Motown singing group The Supremes in 1972 as the third and final single from their popular album Floy Joy . On the soul chart the song peaked at number twenty-two, while on the Hot 100 it went to number fifty-nine. [1]

Personnel

Charts

Chart (1972)Peak
position
Canada Top Singles ( RPM ) [2] 81
US Billboard Hot 100 [3] 59
US Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs ( Billboard ) [4] 22
US Cashbox Top 100 [5] 70
US Cashbox R&B [6] 51
US Record World Singles [7] 72

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