Mary, Scherrie & Susaye

Mary, Scherrie & Susaye
Studio album by The Supremes
Released	October 1976
Recorded	1976
Genre	Soul, disco
Label	Motown
Producer	Brian Holland, Edward Holland, Jr.
The Supremes chronology
High Energy (1976)High Energy1976 Mary, Scherrie & Susaye (1976)
Singles from Mary, Scherrie & Susaye
"You're My Driving Wheel" Released: September 30, 1976 "Let Yourself Go" Released: January 25, 1977 "Love, I Never Knew You Could Feel So Good" Released: March 1977

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	[1]
Disco Delivery	(very positive) [2]
DiscoMusic.com	(positive) [3]

Mary, Scherrie & Susaye is the twenty-ninth and final studio album by The Supremes, released in 1976 on the Motown label. It featured the final line-up for the Supremes, composed of original Supreme Mary Wilson and latter-day members Scherrie Payne and Susaye Greene. All three Supremes take leads on the album. The album was a mixture of disco dance tracks and R&B ballads. Payne and Greene mostly took over the dance tracks while Wilson performed the ballads. The album was released on October 1976, nine months before the trio disbanded. This album's final sales figures stood at around 50,000 copies.^[4]

The entire album was released for the first time on CD on May 17, 2011 on the three-disc set Let Yourself Go: The '70s Albums, Vol 2 – 1974–1977: The Final Sessions.

Singles

Three singles were released from the album, although the final single was only released in the UK. While none of the singles were Top 40 chart hits on the respective national charts, "You are My Driving Wheel" and "Let Yourself Go" became top five singles on the Billboard Hot Dance Club Songs chart.

• "You Are My Driving Wheel" b/w "You're What's Missing in My Life" (B-side taken from High Energy) (Motown 1407, September 30, 1976)
• "Let Yourself Go" b/w "You Are the Heart of Me" (Motown 1415, January 25, 1977)
• "Love I Never Knew You Could Feel So Good" b/w "This Is Why I Believe in You" (Tamla-Motown 1064, March 1977, UK only)

Track listing

All lead vocals by Scherrie Payne except where noted.

Side one

1. "You're My Driving Wheel" (Edward Holland, Jr., Brian Holland, Floyd Stafford, Reginald Brown) – 4:20
2. "Sweet Dream Machine" (Harold Beatty, Brian Holland, Edward Holland, Jr.) – 5:22
3. "Let Yourself Go" (Brian Holland, Edward Holland, Jr., Harold Beatty) – 4:29
4. "Come Into My Life" (Brian Holland, Edward Holland, Jr., Richard Davis) – 6:14 (lead singer: Susaye Greene)

Side two

1. "We Should Be Closer Together" (Janie Bradford, Freddie Gorman, Barbara Gaines, Brian Holland) – 4:59 (lead singer: Mary Wilson, Susaye Greene)
2. "I Don't Want to Be Tied Down" (Brian Holland, Richard Davis, Edward Holland, Jr.) – 4:42
3. "You Are the Heart of Me" (Michael Lovesmith, Edward Holland, Jr.) – 4:12 (lead singer: Mary Wilson)
4. "Love, I Never Knew You Could Feel So Good" (Brian Holland, Richard Davis, Reginald Brown, Floyd Stafford) – 5:51

Personnel

• Mary Wilson – lead and backing vocals
• Scherrie Payne – lead and backing vocals
• Susaye Greene – lead and backing vocals
• Ben Benay, Greg Poree, Jay Graydon – guitar
• Chuck Rainey, Scott Edwards – bass
• Sonny Burke – keyboards
• John Barnes, Dan Wyman – keyboards, synthesizer
• Bob Zimmitti – percussion, synthesizer
• James Gadson – drums
• Eddie "Bongo" Brown, Oliver C. Brown – congas
• Gary Coleman – percussion
• Brian Holland – producer
• Edward Holland, Jr. – executive producer
• Dale Warren, James Anthony Carmichael – arrangers
• Bob Manchurian – assistance on rhythm arrangements

Charts

Singles

References