Song Highlights
Title/Composer | |
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Deke Richards / Pam Sawyer / R. Dean Taylor / Frank Wilson | |
Lamont Dozier / Brian Holland / Eddie Holland | |
Lamont Dozier / Brian Holland / Eddie Holland | |
Jackey Beavers / Johnny Bristol / Harvey Fuqua | |
Lamont Dozier / Brian Holland / Eddie Holland | |
Lamont Dozier / Brian Holland / Eddie Holland | |
Lamont Dozier / Brian Holland / Eddie Holland | |
Lamont Dozier / Brian Holland / Eddie Holland | |
Lamont Dozier / Brian Holland / Eddie Holland | |
Lamont Dozier / Brian Holland / Eddie Holland | |
Nickolas Ashford / Valerie Simpson | |
Lamont Dozier / Brian Holland / Eddie Holland | |
Frank DeVol / Lamont Dozier / Brian Holland / Eddie Holland | |
Henry Cosby / Berry Gordy, Jr. | |
Lamont Dozier / Brian Holland / Eddie Holland | |
Lamont Dozier / Brian Holland / Eddie Holland | |
Kenny Gamble / Leon Huff / Jerry Ross |
Greatest Hits | ||||
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Greatest hits album by | ||||
Released | August 29, 1967 | |||
Recorded | 1963–1967 | |||
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Length | 55:02 | |||
Label | Motown | |||
Producer | ||||
The Supremes chronology | ||||
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UK Tamla-Motown cover | ||||
Singles from Greatest Hits | ||||
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Review scores | |
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Source | Rating |
Allmusic | [1] |
Rolling Stone | [2] |
The Supremes were an American female singing group and a premier act of Motown Records during the 1960s. Founded as The Primettes in Detroit, Michigan, in 1959, the Supremes were the most commercially successful of Motown's acts and are, to date, America's most successful vocal group with 12 number one singles on the Billboard Hot 100. 1: As two separate 10 track albums 'Greatest Hits' & 'Greatest Hits Volume II' (the latter with different cover artwork). 2: As a 20 track double LP and on CD as Volumes 1 & 2, all with the same tracklisting as the two albums above (This Master Release). 3: Also as a 16 track album, same artwork but with a different tracklist & running order. Diana Ross and The Supremes are rarely given credit for being pioneers during the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s, and they were (as were The Temptations, and everybody at Motown, really). Through music, these young artists helped bridge a racial divide and paved a path still being walked by artists today.
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- Artist: Diana Ross & The Supremes Title: The Definitive Collection Released: 2008 / 2019 Style: Soul, R&B, Blues, Vocal Jazz RAR Size: 355 Mb Tracklist: 1. The Supremes / Diana Ross - Where Did Our Love Go (2:33) 2. The Supremes - Baby Love (2:36) 3. The Supremes - Come See About Me (2:40) 4. The Supremes / Florence Ballard/Diana Ross/Mary.
- DIANA ROSS & THE SUPREMES-20 Greatest Hits-CD by Diana Ross And The Supremes. (1994-08-02) by The Supremes and Diana Ross 4.6 out of 5 stars 102.
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. According to Motown data the album eventually sold over 6,200,000 copies.[3] 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'.[4]
Overview[edit]
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[edit]
- 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 Vol. 1, Greatest Hits Vol. 2, Greatest Hits Vol. 3, and the American variant of 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.
Cover artwork of The Supremes by Robert Taylor which is featured on the 'Greatest Hits' American release.
Track listing[edit]
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.
LP One[edit]
Side 1[edit]
- 'When the Lovelight Starts Shining Through His Eyes' a – 2:38
- 'Where Did Our Love Go' a – 2:30
- 'Ask Any Girl' a, b – 2:44
- 'Baby Love' a – 2:37
- 'Run, Run, Run' a – 2:30
Side 2[edit]
- 'Stop! In the Name of Love' b – 2:53
- 'Back in My Arms Again' b – 2:52
- 'Come See About Me' a – 2:42
- 'Nothing but Heartaches' b – 2:57
- 'Everything is Good About You' (James Dean, Edward Holland, Jr.) c – 2:57
LP Two[edit]
Side 3[edit]
Diana Ross And The Supremes
- 'I Hear a Symphony' c – 2:38
- 'Love Is Here and Now You're Gone' e – 2:46
- 'My World Is Empty Without You' c – 2:33
- 'Whisper You Love Me Boy' b – 2:40
- 'The Happening' (Holland-Dozier-Holland, Frank De Vol) – 2:49
Side 4[edit]
- 'You Keep Me Hangin' On' e – 2:40
- 'You Can't Hurry Love' d – 2:45
- 'Standing at the Crossroads of Love' a – 2:27
- 'Love Is Like an Itching in My Heart' d – 2:55
- '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[edit]
- Diana Ross – lead vocals
- Mary Wilson – background vocals
- Florence Ballard – background vocals
- The Four Tops, Holland-Dozier-Holland – additional background vocals
- Brian Holland – producer
- Lamont Dozier – producer
- The Funk Brothers – instrumentation on all tracks except for 'Love Is Here and Now You're Gone'.
- Los Angeles studio musicians – additional instrumentation
- Hal Blaine – drums on 'The Happening'
Chart positions[edit]
Name | Chart (1967) | Peak position |
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Diana Ross & The Supremes Greatest Hits | U.S. Billboard 200 | 1 |
U.S. Billboard R&B Albums Chart | 1 | |
UK Albums Chart[5] | 1 |
Singles[edit]
Name | Chart (1967) | Peak position |
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'The Happening' | U.S. Billboard Hot 100 | 1 |
U.S. Billboard R&B Singles Chart | 12 | |
UK Singles Chart | 6 |
See also[edit]
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References[edit]
- ^Ruhlmann, William. The Supremes: Greatest Hits (Vol. 1&2) Allmusic review at Allmusic
- ^Brackett, Nathan (2004). The New Rolling Stone Album Guide. Page 797: Fireside Books. ISBN0-7432-0169-8.CS1 maint: location (link)
- ^http://www.greasylake.org/the-circuit/index.php?%2Ftopic%2F116321-the-supremes-diana-ross-stevie-wonder-and-ray-charlesusa-album-sales%2F
- ^Myers, Justin (March 27, 2018). 'Little Mix's Glory Days sets UK chart record as the longest-reigning Top 40 girl group album ever'. Official Charts Company. Retrieved January 29, 2019.
- ^'The Official Charts Company – The Supremes – Greatest Hits'. Official Charts Company. Retrieved 3 June 2011.
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