| Greatest Hits | ||||
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| Greatest hits album by The Supremes | ||||
| Released | August 29, 1967 | |||
| Recorded | 1963 - 1967 | |||
| Genre | Pop, R&B, Soundtrack | |||
| Length | 55:02 | |||
| Label | Motown MS 2-663 |
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| Producer | Brian Holland Lamont Dozier |
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| The Supremes chronology | ||||
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| Painting by Robert Taylor | ||||
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| Allmusic | [1] |
The Supremes: Greatest Hits (also released as Diana Ross & the Supremes: Greatest Hits) is a two-LP collection of singles and b-sides recorded by The Supremes, released by Motown in August 1967 (see 1967 in music). The collection was the first LP to credit the group under the new billing Diana Ross & the Supremes. Although founding member Florence Ballard is pictured on all album artwork and sings on all the tracks, by the time the set was released, she had been fired from the group and replaced by Cindy Birdsong.
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Greatest Hits includes fifteen Supremes singles, 10 of which went to number-one, among them were "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 (which were originally written for an unreleased album "The Supremes and The Motown Sound: From Broadway To Hollywood") 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 their second 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. It sold over 4 million copies.
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.
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.
| Name | Chart (1967) | Peak position |
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| Diana Ross & The Supremes Greatest Hits | U.S. Billboard 200 | 1 |
| U.S. Billboard R&B Albums Chart | 1 | |
| UK Albums Chart[2] | 1 |
| Preceded by Ode to Billie Joe by Bobbie Gentry |
Billboard 200 number-one album October 28 - December 1, 1967 |
Succeeded by Pisces, Aquarius, Capricorn & Jones Ltd. by The Monkees |
| Preceded by The Four Tops Greatest Hits by The Four Tops |
UK Albums Chart number-one album 17 February 1968 - 9 March 1968 |
Succeeded by John Wesley Harding by Bob Dylan |
| Name | Chart (1967) | Peak position |
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| "The Happening" | U.S. Billboard Hot 100 | 1 |
| U.S. Billboard R&B Singles Chart | 12 | |
| UK Singles Chart | 6 |