Supremes A' Go-Go

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The Supremes A' Go-Go
Studio album by The Supremes
Released	August 25, 1966
Recorded	Fall 1965 - summer 1966
Genre	Pop/soul
Length	31:54
Label	Motown M 621
Producer(s)	Brian Holland Lamont Dozier Hal Davis Frank Wilson
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The Supremes chronology
I Hear a Symphony (1966)	The Supremes A' Go-Go (1966)	The Supremes Sing Holland-Dozier-Holland (1967)

The Supremes A' Go-Go is a 1966 album by Motown singing group The Supremes. The album was the first album by an all female group to reach the number-one on The Billboard 200 album charts in the United States.

Included are two of the Supremes' Top Ten Billboard Hot 100 hits, the number-nine single "Love Is Like an Itching In My Heart", and the number-one "You Can't Hurry Love". Also present on the album is one other original, "Put Yourself in My Place", and covers of songs by the Four Tops ("Baby I Need Your Loving", "I Can't Help Myself (Sugar Pie Honey Bunch)", "Shake Me, Wake Me (When It's Over)"), The Temptations ("Get Ready"), Martha & the Vandellas ("Come and Get These Memories") Barrett Strong ("Money (That's What I Want)"), The Isley Brothers) ("This Old Heart of Mine (Is Weak For You)"), Nancy Sinatra ("These Boots Are Made for Walkin'"), and The McCoys ("Hang on Sloopy").

Contents 1 Track listing 1.1 Side one 1.2 Side two 2 Personnel 3 Singles history 4 Chart history

[edit] Track listing

All tracks produced by Brian Holland & Lamont Dozier, save for "These Boots Are Made for Walkin'", "Get Ready", and "Hang on Sloopy", produced by Hal Davis & Frank Wilson.

[edit] Side one

1. "Love Is Like an Itching In My Heart" (Holland-Dozier-Holland)
2. "This Old Heart of Mine (Is Weak For You)", (Holland-Dozier-Holland, Sylvia Moy)
3. "You Can't Hurry Love" (Holland-Dozier-Holland)
4. "Shake Me, Wake Me (When It's Over)" (Holland-Dozier-Holland)
5. "Baby I Need Your Loving" (Holland-Dozier-Holland)
6. "These Boots Are Made for Walkin'" (Lee Hazlewood)

[edit] Side two

1. "I Can't Help Myself (Sugar Pie Honey Bunch)" (Holland-Dozier-Holland)
2. "Get Ready" (Smokey Robinson)
3. "Put Yourself in My Place" (Holland-Dozier-Holland, John Thornton)
4. "Money (That's What I Want)" (Berry Gordy, Jr., Janie Bradford)
5. "Come and Get These Memories" (Holland-Dozier-Holland)
6. "Hang on Sloopy" (Wes Farrell, Bert Russell)

[edit] Personnel

• Diana Ross: lead vocals
• Florence Ballard and Mary Wilson: background vocals
• Brian Holland, Lamont Dozier, Hal Davis, Frank Wilson: producers
• The Funk Brothers: instrumentation

[edit] Singles history

• "Love is Like an Itching in My Heart" b/w "He's All I Got" (b-side taken from I Hear a Symphony) (Motown 1094, April 8, 1966)
• "You Can't Hurry Love" b/w "Put Yourself in My Place" (Motown 1097, July 25, 1966)

[edit] Chart history

Name	Chart (1966)	Peak position
The Supremes A' Go-Go	U.S. Pop Albums Chart	1
The Supremes A' Go-Go	U.S. R&B Albums Chart	1
"Love is Like an Itching in My Heart"	U.S. Billboard Pop Singles	9
"Love is Like an Itching in My Heart"	U.S. Billboard R&B Singles	7
"You Can't Hurry Love"	U.S. Billboard Pop Singles	1
"You Can't Hurry Love"	U.S. Billboard R&B Singles	1
"You Can't Hurry Love"	UK Singles Chart	3