Diana Ross & the Supremes: Greatest Hits is a two-LP collection of singles and b-sides recorded by The Supremes, released by Motown Records in August 1967 (see 1967 in music). The collection was the first LP to credit the group by its new name of "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. Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... A greatest hits album (sometimes referred to as a best of album) is a compilation album of successful, previously released songs by a particular music artist or band. ... For other uses, see Supremes (disambiguation). ... is the 241st day of the year (242nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1967 (MCMLXVII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar) of the 1967 Gregorian calendar. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... For other uses, see Soul music (disambiguation). ... For other uses, see Pop music (disambiguation). ... In the music industry, a record label is a brand and a trademark associated with the marketing of music recordings and music videos. ... Motown Records, Inc. ... In the music industry, a record producer (or music producer) has many roles, among them controlling the recording sessions, coaching and guiding the musicians, organizing and scheduling production budget and resources, and supervising the recording, mixing and mastering processes. ... Brian Holland, his brother Edward Holland, Jr. ... Lamont Dozier (born June 16, 1941 in Detroit, Michigan) is an African American songwriter and record producer, best known as a member of Holland-Dozier-Holland, the songwriting and production team that was responsible for much of the Motown sound and numerous hit records by artists such as Martha & the... The All Music Guide (AMG) is a metadata database about music, owned by All Media Guide. ... Image File history File links 5_stars. ... For other uses, see Supremes (disambiguation). ... The Supremes Sing Rodgers & Hart is a 1967 album recorded by The Supremes for Motown Records. ... Reflections is a 1968 album by The Supremes, the first to bill the group as Diana Ross & the Supremes. It contains the singles Reflections, In and Out of Love, and Forever Came Today. Although Florence Ballard recorded much of this album before being fired from the group in June 1967... A 12-inch record (left), a 7-inch record (right), and a CD (above) Two 7 singles (left), two colored 7 singles (middle), and two 7 singles with large spindle holes (right). ... For other uses, see Supremes (disambiguation). ... Motown Records, also known as Tamla-Motown outside of the United States, is a record label originally based out of Detroit, Michigan (Motor City, hence mo(tor)town), from where it achieved widespread international success. ... The year 1967 was an important year for psychedelic music, with releases from Small Faces Itchycoo Park,The Doors (The Doors, Strange Days), Jefferson Airplane (Surrealistic Pillow, After Bathing at Baxters), the Beatles Sgt. ... For the author-illustrator, see Diana Ross (author). ... Florence Glenda Ballard Chapman, nicknamed Flo or Blondie, (June 30, 1943 – February 22, 1976) was an American singer, and one of the original lead singers of the Motown act The Supremes. ... Cindy Birdsong (center) with The Supremes in 1970, on the cover of the Right On LP. Cindy Birdsong (born Cynthia Ann Birdsong on December 15, 1939 in Camden, New Jersey) is an African-American singer. ...

Overview

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". Where Did Our Love Go is a 1964 hit song recorded by The Supremes for the Motown label. ... Stop! In the Name of Love is a 1965 number-one single recorded by The Supremes for the Motown label. ... You Cant Hurry Love is a 1966 hit song recorded by The Supremes for the Motown label. ... The Happening is a 1967 comedy film starring Anthony Quinn, Michael Parks, Faye Dunaway, Robert Walker Jr. ... In recorded music, the terms A-side and B-side refer to the two sides of 7 inch vinyl records on which singles have been released since the 1950s. ...

The packaging for the set includes liner notes by actress Carol Channing 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 a 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. Carol Elaine Channing (born on January 31, 1921 in Seattle, Washington) is an American singer and actress. ... Mary Wilson (born 6 March 1944 in Greenville, Mississippi) is an American singer best known for her work as a member of the Motown soul and pop group The Supremes. ... The Billboard 200 is a ranking of the 200 highest-selling music albums and EPs in the United States, published weekly by Billboard magazine. ...

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. Holland-Dozier-Holland is a songwriting and production team made up of Lamont Dozier and brothers Brian Holland and Edward Holland, Jr. ...

Track listing

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. Brian Holland, his brother Edward Holland, Jr. ... Lamont Dozier (born June 16, 1941 in Detroit, Michigan) is an African American songwriter and record producer, best known as a member of Holland-Dozier-Holland, the songwriting and production team that was responsible for much of the Motown sound and numerous hit records by artists such as Martha & the... Holland-Dozier-Holland is a songwriting and production team made up of Lamont Dozier and brothers Brian Holland and Edward Holland, Jr. ...

LP one

Side one

1. "When the Lovelight Starts Shining Through His Eyes" ^a –
2. "Where Did Our Love Go" ^a –
3. "Ask Any Girl" ^{a, b} –
4. "Baby Love" ^a – 2:37
5. "Run, Run, Run" ^a –

Where Did Our Love Go is a 1964 hit song recorded by The Supremes for the Motown label. ... Baby Love is the name of a 1964 hit song recorded by The Supremes for the Motown label. ...

Side two

1. "Stop! In the Name of Love" ^b –
2. "Back in My Arms Again" ^b –
3. "Come See About Me" ^a – 2:42
4. "Nothing But Heartaches" ^b –
5. "Everything is Good About You" (James Dean, Edward Holland, Jr.) ^c –

Stop! In the Name of Love is a 1965 number-one single recorded by The Supremes for the Motown label. ... Back in My Arms Again is a 1965 hit song recorded by The Supremes for the Motown label. ... Come See About Me is the name of a 1964 hit song recorded by The Supremes for the Motown label. ... Edward Holland, Jr. ...

LP two

Side three

1. "I Hear a Symphony" ^c – 2:38
2. "Love Is Here and Now You're Gone" ^e – 2:46
3. "My World is Empty Without You" ^c – 2:33
4. "Whisper You Love Me Boy" ^b – 2:40
5. "The Happening" (Holland-Dozier-Holland, Frank DeVol) – 2:49

I Hear a Symphony is a 1965 hit song recorded by The Supremes for the Motown label. ... Love Is Here and Now Youre Gone is a 1967 number-one hit single recorded by The Supremes for the Motown label. ... The Happening is a 1967 comedy film starring Anthony Quinn, Michael Parks, Faye Dunaway, Robert Walker Jr. ... Frank De Vol (September 20, 1911 - October 27, 1999) was an American actor and composer of film and television music. ...

Side four

1. "You Keep Me Hangin' On" ^e – 2:40
2. "You Can't Hurry Love" ^d – 2:45
3. "Standing at the Crossroads of Love" ^a – 2:27
4. "Love is Like an Itching in My Heart" ^d – 2:55
5. "There's No Stopping Us Now" ^e – 2:55

You Keep Me Hangin On is a 1966 hit song originally recorded by The Supremes for the Motown label. ... You Cant Hurry Love is a 1966 hit song recorded by The Supremes for the Motown label. ...

Notes

Album sources

• ^a from Where Did Our Love Go (1964)
• ^b from More Hits by the Supremes (1965)
• ^c from I Hear a Symphony (1966)
• ^d from The Supremes A' Go-Go (1966):
• ^e from The Supremes Sing Holland-Dozier-Holland (1967)

• "The Happening" is new to album. The single "Reflections" was originally also intended for inclusion, but was heldover and replaced with "Standing in The Crossroads of Love" and included on the subsequent Reflections LP in March 1968.

Where Did Our Love Go is a 1964 album by Motown singing group The Supremes. ... More Hits by the Supremes is, despite its greatest hits album sounding title, a 1965 studio album by Motown singing group The Supremes. ... I Hear a Symphony is a 1966 album released by Motown girl group The Supremes on the Motown label. ... The Supremes A Go-Go is a 1966 album by Motown singing group The Supremes. ... The Supremes Sing Holland-Dozier-Holland is a 1967 album by The Supremes. ... Reflections is a 1967 hit song recorded by The Supremes for the Motown label. ... Reflections is a 1968 album by The Supremes, the first to bill the group as Diana Ross & the Supremes. It contains the singles Reflections, In and Out of Love, and Forever Came Today. Although Florence Ballard recorded much of this album before being fired from the group in June 1967...

Release information

• Greatest Hits was released overseas in some markets shortened to one LP. The tracklisting for this version includes only the major singles, omitting "Ask Any Girl", "Standing at the Crossroads of Love", "Whisper You Love Me Boy", "Everything is Good About You", "There's No Stopping Us Now", "When the Lovelight Starts Shining Through His Eyes", and "Run, Run, Run".
• Diana Ross & the Supremes: Greatest Hits is regularly referred to as Diana Ross & the Supremes: Greatest Hits, Vols. 1 & 2, as its 1969 single-disc follow-up is titled Greatest Hits Vol. 3. The double-LP was issued by Motown as two separate halves in 1986. Greatest Hits, Greatest Hits, Vol. 3, and The Supremes at Their Best (A greatest hits collection for the post-Ross 1970s Supremes) were compiled and issued as The Supremes: Gold in 2005.

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Personnel

• Diana Ross: lead vocals
• Mary Wilson and Florence Ballard: background vocals
• Brian Holland and Lamont Dozier: producers
• The Funk Brothers: instrumentation on all tracks save for "Love Is Here and Now You're Gone".

For the author-illustrator, see Diana Ross (author). ... Mary Wilson (born 6 March 1944 in Greenville, Mississippi) is an American singer best known for her work as a member of the Motown soul and pop group The Supremes. ... Florence Glenda Ballard Chapman, nicknamed Flo or Blondie, (June 30, 1943 – February 22, 1976) was an American singer, and one of the original lead singers of the Motown act The Supremes. ... Brian Holland, his brother Edward Holland, Jr. ... Lamont Dozier (born June 16, 1941 in Detroit, Michigan) is an African American songwriter and record producer, best known as a member of Holland-Dozier-Holland, the songwriting and production team that was responsible for much of the Motown sound and numerous hit records by artists such as Martha & the... The Funk Brothers was the nickname given to a group of Detroit, Michigan session musicians who performed on the backing tracks to most Motown Records recordings from 1959 until 1972, when the company moved to Los Angeles. ...

Singles history

• "The Happening" b/w "All I Know About You" (non-album) (Motown 1107, March 20, 1967)

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Chart history