Your Heart Belongs to Me

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“Your Heart Belongs to Me”
Single by The Supremes
from the album Meet the Supremes
Released 1962
Format 7" single
Recorded Hitsville USA (Studio A); 1962
Genre Soul
Length 2:37
Label Motown
M 1027
Writer(s) Smokey Robinson
Producer Smokey Robinson
The Supremes singles chronology
"Buttered Popcorn"
(1961)		 "Your Heart Belongs to Me"
(1962)		 "Let Me Go the Right Way"
(1962)

"Your Heart Belongs to Me" is a 1962 song written and composed by The Miracles' William "Smokey" Robinson and released as a single by Motown singing group The Supremes during their early years with the label. Recorded at a time when Mary Wells and The Marvelettes were the dominant female recording acts of the label, the Supremes had struggled to release singles with Supremes members Florence Ballard, Diana Ross and Mary Wilson switching lead vocal spots. After the failure of their first single, "I Want a Guy" with Ross in the lead, their second single, the Ballard-led "Buttered Popcorn", also failed to chart. For this record, Smokey Robinson decided to use Ross for lead vocals for the song. It would proved to be a modest success as the song became the Supremes' first charted hit at number 95 on the Billboard Hot 100 but failed to chart on the Hot R&B Sides chart. After this record, fourth member Barbara Martin would leave the group to start a family leaving Ross, Ballard and Wilson as a trio from then on. Inspired by its modest charting, Berry Gordy would eventually make Ross the sole lead vocalist for the group.

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For this song, Smokey Robinson, who was the sole songwriter and producer for Mary Wells during her Motown tenure, used the exact same music style that he used with Mary Wells in a few of the several hits he wrote for her. Including, The One Who Really Loves You, You Beat Me to the Punch, Two Lovers and Laughing Boy.

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