Reflections (Supremes album)

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Reflections
Reflections cover
Studio album by Diana Ross & the Supremes
Released March 25, 1968
Recorded 1967 - 1968
Genre Pop/Soul
Length 41:19
Label Motown
MS 665
Producer Brian Holland
Lamont Dozier
Smokey Robinson
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Reflections is a 1968 released album recorded for Motown Records by Diana Ross & the Supremes, the first regular studio LP to display the new billing of the group formerly known as "The Supremes". It contains the singles "Reflections", "In and Out of Love", and "Forever Came Today." Also included are covers of songs made famous by Martha and The Vandellas ("Love (Makes Me Do Foolish Things)") and The 5th Dimension ("Up, Up and Away"). Also present are songs written by other famous names, including "What the World Needs Now Is Love" by Burt Bacharach and Hal David and "Bah-Bah-Bah" co-written by Motown songstress Brenda Holloway with her younger sister, Patrice. It also contains a cover of Bobbie Gentry's "Ode to Bille Joe", whose original recording kept the single "Reflections" from peaking at the number one spot on the Billboard Hot 100 in September 1967.

The album includes the final songs the Supremes recorded with their main creative team of Holland-Dozier-Holland before the three writers/producers departed Motown over royalty and title disputes. Although Florence Ballard recorded some of this album before being fired from the group in June 1967, her replacement Cindy Birdsong along with Mary Wilson recorded several songs and appears on the album cover. One of the album's singles, "Forever Came Today", was later covered by The Jackson 5 on their 1975 album Moving Violation.

Contents

[edit] Track listing

[edit] Side one

  1. "Reflections" (Holland-Dozier-Holland)
  2. "I'm Gonna Make It (I Will Wait For You)" (Debbie Dean, Dennis Lussier)
  3. "Forever Came Today" (Holland-Dozier-Holland)
  4. "I Can't Make It Alone" (Holland-Dozier-Holland)
  5. "In And Out Of Love" (Holland-Dozier-Holland)
  6. "Bah-Bah-Bah" (Brenda Holloway, Patrice Holloway)

[edit] Side two

  1. "What The World Needs Now Is Love" (Burt Bacharach, Hal David)
  2. "Up, Up and Away" (Jimmy Webb)
  3. "Love (Makes Me Do Foolish Things)" (Holland-Dozier-Holland)
  4. "Then" (Smokey Robinson, Ronald White, Warren Moore)
  5. "Misery Makes Its Home In My Heart" (Smokey Robinson, Warren Moore)
  6. "Ode To Billie Joe" (Bobbie Gentry)

[edit] CD bonus tracks

  • "Stay In My Lonely Arms" (Holland-Dozier-Holland) - previously unreleased
  • "All I Know About You" (Holland-Dozier-Holland, Frank DeVol) - previously released only as Motown 1107B (B-side of "The Happening", March 20, 1967)

[edit] Personnel

[edit] Singles history

[edit] Chart history

Name Chart (1967 - 1968) Peak
position
Reflections U.S. Pop Albums Chart 18
Reflections U.S. R&B Albums Chart 3
Reflections UK Albums Chart 30
"Reflections" U.S. Billboard Pop Singles 2
"Reflections" U.S. Billboard R&B Singles 4
"Reflections" UK Singles Chart 5
"In and Out of Love" U.S. Billboard Pop Singles 9
"In and Out of Love" U.S. Billboard R&B Singles 16
"In and Out of Love" UK Singles Chart 13
"Forever Came Today" U.S. Billboard Pop Singles 28
"Forever Came Today" U.S. Billboard R&B Singles 17
"Forever Came Today" UK Singles Chart 28
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