Greatest Hits (The Supremes album)

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 the 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 Hot R&B LP's 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 worldwide 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 • 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. Vol. 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. ==Track listing==

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 Side 1 • "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 • "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 Side 3 • "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 • "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" was a new inclusion for the album. The single "Reflections" was originally also intended for inclusion, but was heldover and replaced with "Standing at the Crossroads of Love". "Reflections" was included on the subsequent Reflections LP in March 1968. ==Personnel==

• Diana Ross – lead vocals • Mary Wilson – background vocals • Florence Ballard – background vocals • The Andantes – additional background vocals (side 2, track 1 / side 4, track 5) • The Four Tops, Holland–Dozier–Holland – additional background vocals (side 1, tracks 1 and 5) • The Love Tones – additional backing vocals (side 4, track 3) • Brian Holland – producer • Lamont Dozier – producer • The Funk Brothers – instrumentation (except side 3, track 2) • Los Angeles studio musicians – instrumentation (side 3, track 2) ==Charts==

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