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Track Listing
1. Where Did Our Love Go
2. Baby Love
3. Come See About Me
4. Stop! In the Name of Love
5. Back in My Arms Again
6. I Hear a Symphony
7. You Can't Hurry Love
8. You Keep Me Hangin' On
9. Love Is Here and Now You're Gone
10. Happening, The
11. Reflections
12. Love Child
13. I'm Gonna Make You Love Me - (with The Temptations)
14. Someday We'll Be Together
15. Stoned Love
16. Ain't No Mountain High Enough - (with Diana Ross)
17. Touch Me in the Morning - (with Diana Ross)
18. Theme From Mahogany, The (Do You Know Where You're Going to?) - (with Diana Ross)
19. Love Hangover - (with Diana Ross)
20. Boss, The - (with Diana Ross)
21. Upside Down - (with Diana Ross)
22. I'm Coming Out - (with Diana Ross)
23. Endless Love - (with Lionel Richie/Diana Ross)
24. You Keep Me Hangin' On - (Almighty mix, edit)
Album Notes
The Supremes: Diana Ross, Mary Wilson, Florence Ballard, Cindy Birdsong, Jean Terrell (vocals).
Additional personnel: Lionel Richie, The Temptations (vocals); Nile Rodgers (guitar); Bernard Edwards (bass); Tony Thompson (drums); Johnny Bristol (background vocals).
Producers include: Brian Holland, Lamont Dozier, Frank Wilson, Nickolas Ashford, Valerie Simpson.
Compilation producers: Harry Weinger, Andrew Skurow, Jeff Moskow.
Recorded between 1964 & 1981. Includes liner notes by Brian Chin.
Though not as critically revered as label-mates Smokey Robinson and Stevie Wonder, the Supremes were the most popular Motown act of the 1960s. Not only did the group rack up a string of #1 singles, that, in terms of frequency and quality often rivaled that of the Beatles, they were one of the first black combos in America to truly achieve mainstream white acceptance.
In many ways, the Supremes' music represented the Motown sound distilled to its essence; Hitsville USA's throbbing bass, relentlessly danceable drum beats, and ingenious arrangements were never so purely and perfectly geared for maximum pop appeal as on early hits such as "Where Did Our Love Go" and "Stop! In the Name of Love." On later, edgier tracks, like "You Keep Me Hangin' On" and "Love Child," the Supremes managed to adapt to the changing times without losing fans. Of course, even the Supremes' massive success couldn't match the superstar status garnered by their lead singer Diana Ross, with her definitive pop-soul classics such as "Ain't No Mountain High Enough" and "Endless Love." THE #1'S comes as advertised, collecting all of the Diana Ross and the Supremes chart-toppers and delivering them with excellent sound and eye-pleasing packaging.
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