The Supremes Sing Rodgers & Hart

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The Supremes Sing Rodgers & Hart
Cover album by The Supremes
Released	May 22, 1967
Recorded	1966
Genre	Pop/showtunes
Length	n/a
Label	Motown MS 659
Producer	Berry Gordy Gil Askey
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The Supremes Sing Rodgers & Hart is a 1967 album recorded by The Supremes for Motown Records. The album is wholly composed of covers of showtunes written by the songwriting duo of Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart. The album was the final album released before The Supremes changed its name to "Diana Ross & the Supremes", and founding member Florence Ballard was replaced with Cindy Birdsong.

Originally intended to be a double album, The Supremes Sing Rodgers & Hart was halved before Motown issued it in May 1967. In 1986, two unreleased tracks from the Rodgers & Hart sessions were included in the Diana Ross & the Supremes' 25th Anniversary collection. Several more were included alongside the original twelve LP tracks on The Rodgers & Hart Collection, an expanded compact disc collection released by Motown in 1987. All of the sessions, including a bonus live recording, were included on the 2002 Motown/Universal release The Supremes Sing Rodgers & Hart: The Complete Recordings.

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

[edit] Track listing

All songs written by Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart, produced by Berry Gordy and Gil Askey

[edit] Side one

1. "The Lady is a Tramp"
2. "Mountain Greenery"
3. "This Can't Be Love"
4. "Where or When"
5. "Lover"
6. "My Funny Valentine"

[edit] Side two

1. "My Romance"
2. "My Heart Stood Still"
3. "Falling in Love with Love"
4. "Thou Swell"
5. "Dancing on the Ceiling"
6. "Blue Moon"

[edit] Known outtakes

The following Rodgers/Hart compositions were also recorded by the Supremes for this album:

1. "Manhattan"
2. "The Blue Room"
3. "With a Song in My Heart"
4. "Spring is Here"
5. "Little Girl Blue"
6. "It Never Entered My Mind"
7. "There's a Small Hotel"
8. "You Took Advantage of Me"
9. "Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered"
10. "Wait Till You See Him"
11. "I Didn't Know What Time It Was"
12. "Johnny One Note"
13. "I Could Write a Book"

Numbers 1 and 2 were first issued on the compilation Diana Ross & the Supremes' 25th Anniversary in 1986, while 3 through 12 were first issued on The Rodgers & Hart Collection in 1987. All of these songs , plus a live medley of "The Lady is a Tramp/Let's Get Away from It All" recorded at the Copacabana in May 1967, were included in the collection The Supremes Sing Rodgers & Hart: The Complete Recordings in 2002. The versions of "You Took Advantage of Me" and "Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered" included on the 2002 collection are alternate recordings to those previously issued. "Manhattan" was done as a duet with Florence Ballard and Diana Ross. The two were originally supposed to share lead, but the producers instead gave the lead on that number to Ross.

[edit] Personnel

• Diana Ross: lead vocals
• Mary Wilson: background vocals, co-lead vocal on "Falling in Love with Love"
• Florence Ballard: background vocals, co-lead Vocal on "Manhattan"

[edit] Chart history

Name	Chart (1967)	Peak position
The Supremes Sing Rodgers & Hart	U.S. Pop Albums Chart	20
The Supremes Sing Rodgers & Hart	U.S. R&B Albums Chart	3