Greatest Hits (Supremes album)

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Greatest Hits
Greatest Hits cover
Greatest hits by Diana Ross & the Supremes
Released August 29, 1967
Recorded 1963 - 1967
Genre Soul/pop
Length 55:02
Label Motown
MS 2-663
Producer(s) Brian Holland
Lamont Dozier
Professional reviews
Diana Ross & the Supremes chronology
The Supremes Sing Rodgers & Hart
(1967)		 Greatest Hits
(1967)		 Reflections
(1968)


Diana Ross & the Supremes: Greatest Hits is a two-LP collection of singles and b-sides recorded by The Supremes, released by Motown Records in August 1967 (see 1967 in music). The collection was the first LP to credit the group by its new name of "Diana Ross & the Supremes". Although founding member Florence Ballard is pictured on all album artwork, by the time the set was released, she had been fired from the group and replaced by Cindy Birdsong.

Contents

[edit] Overview

Greatest Hits includes fifteen Supremes singles, among them number-one hits such as "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 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 a number-one album on both the Billboard 200 and the Billboard R&B Albums charts in the United States, and also reached the top of the pop album chart in the United Kingdom as well.

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.

[edit] 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.

[edit] LP one

[edit] Side one

  1. "When the Lovelight Starts Shining Through His Eyes" a
  2. "Where Did Our Love Go" a
  3. "Ask Any Girl" a, b
  4. "Baby Love" a
  5. "Run, Run, Run" a

[edit] Side two

  1. "Stop! In the Name of Love" b
  2. "Back in My Arms Again" b
  3. "Come See About Me" a
  4. Nothing But Heartaches" b
  5. "Everything is Good About You" (James Dean, Edward Holland, Jr.) c

[edit] LP two

[edit] Side three

  1. "I Hear a Symphony" c
  2. "Love is Here and Now You're Gone" e
  3. "My World is Empty Without You" c
  4. "Whisper You Love Me Boy" b
  5. "The Happening" (Holland-Dozier-Holland, Frank DeVol)

[edit] Side four

  1. "You Keep Me Hangin' On" e
  2. "You Can't Hurry Love" d
  3. "Standing at the Crossroads of Love" a
  4. "Love is Like an Itching in My Heart" d
  5. "There's No Stopping Us Now" e

[edit] Notes

[edit] Album sources

  • "The Happening" is new to album. The single "Reflections" was originally also intended for inclusion, but was heldover and included on the subsequent Reflections LP in March 1968.

[edit] Release information

  • Greatest Hits was released overseas in some markets shortened to one LP. The tracklisting for this version includes only the major singles, omitting "Ask Any Girl", "Standing at the Crossroads of Love", "Whisper You Love Me Boy", "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. The double-LP was issued by Motown as two separate halves in 1986. Greatest Hits, Greatest Hits, Vol. 3, and 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.

[edit] Personnel

[edit] Singles history

  • "The Happening" b/w "All I Know About You" (non-album) (Motown 1107, March 20, 1967)

[edit] Chart history

Name Chart (1966) Peak
position
Diana Ross & the Supremes Greatest Hits U.S. Pop Albums Chart 1
Diana Ross & the Supremes Greatest Hits U.S. R&B Albums Chart 1
Diana Ross & the Supremes Greatest Hits UK Albums Chart 1
"The Happening" U.S. Pop Singles Chart 1
"The Happening" U.S. R&B Singles Chart 12
"The Happening" UK Singles Chart 6
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