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The Supremes 🆚 The Supremes 🆚 The Supremes (Vote for your favorite...)
POLL QUESTION: Which of these is your favorite song by The Supremes? (Or, which one brings back the best memories?)Stoned Love: The Supremes song “Stoned Love,” was released as single by Motown in 1970. Many people believed that the song’s title was a reference to drug use. The concern over that reference caused many stations to not play the song. It’s pretty easy to assume that if there was not the significant protest against the song because of the supposed drug reference, “Stoned Love,” would have been the group’s thirteenth number one single. The song still did extremely well as it broke the Billboard Top 10 peaking at number seven.
Someday We’ll Be Together: This one is sort of an outlier in Supremes history. The song’s lead vocals were performed by Diana Ross. However, neither Mary Wilson or Cint Birdsong sang on the record. The song was released on the Supremes album Cream of the Crop. It would become the last number one single of the Supremes career. Dian Ross left the group the following year. The song “Someday We’ll be Together,” was written by Johnny Bristol, Jackey Beavers, and Harvey Fuqua
Love Child: “Love Child,” opens with a great guitar riff and those bells that stop you in your tracks. It just a very short quirk verse before Diana Ross and the girls grab your heart and burn it down. But you love it. The great Supremes song “Love Child,” was released in 1968. Despite the controversy over the songs lyrics, the Supremes had their eleventh number one single with “Love Child.”
You Can’t Hurry Love: Continuing with our Top 10 Supremes songs list we turn to a very popular recording entitled “You Can’t Hurry Love.” The song was released on the album The Supremes A’ Go-Go. The record was released in 1966. Issued as the second single from the album, the song “You Can’t Hurry Love.” eventually hit number one on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1966. Sixteen years later, Phil Collins would have his first solo number one with his cover of the song when it hit number one in the U.K in 1982.
Come See About Me: A little drums, some handclasp and they got you out of your seat up and dancing in a flash. Tell me this one doesn’t get you up the second you hear it. Such a classic Supremes song, “Come See About Me,” stands as one of our favorite Supremes songs of all time. The song hit number one in 1964. It also featured a cast of great musicians on the record including Joe Messina on guitar, Earl Van Dyke on keys, James Jamerson on bass, Benny Benjamin on drums and Jack Ashford on vibes.
Where Did Our Love Go: The Supremes “Where Did Our Love Go,” was released in 1964. “Where Did Our Love Go,” was a defining moment in the history of The Supremes as it became the group’s first number one single. It was released in 1964. The song was written by Brian Holland, Lamont Dozier and Eddie Holland.
Back In My Arms Again: The Supremes hit single “Back in My Arms Again” was their fifth straight number one single. The song was released in 1965. The song appeared on the album More Hits By The Supremes. The song “Back in My Arms Again” was written by Brian Holland, Lamont Dozier and Eddie Holland.
Baby Love: The Supremes “Baby Love,” single hit number one on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1964. It also hit number one in the United Kingdom, a feat not easily archived by anyone except The Beatles to have a number one hit in both the Unites States and the United Kingdom as both counties had very different taste in music as the music charts have defined over the years. The song was written by Brian Holland, Lamont Dozier and Eddie Holland.
You Keep Me Hanging On: “You Keep Me Hanging On,” was released in 1966. It hit number one on just about every American Music chart in the nation including the Billboard Hot 100. The song was written by the Motown hit making machine of Holland–Dozier–Holland. This was a song with legs.
Stop In The Name Of Love: “Stop In The Name Of Love,” was The Supremes most defining song. When one thinks of a Supremes song, “Stop In The Name Of Love,” is usually the first one that comes to mind, It’s one of those songs that defined the music of the 1969s. A decide that delivered rock and roll, psychedelia, and the sound of Motown to the masses on a daily basis. The song “Stop In The Name Of Love,” was released in 1965 and hit number one in the Spring of that year.
Which of these is your favorite song by The Supremes? (Or, which one brings back the best memories?)
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... also recall "Ain't No Mountain High Enough" - the Motown songs were great.
So hard to choose.
That made me smile! 
and as an Alto my whole life, I’m used to being a back up singer 
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This 64-year old white guy was, and still is, a Supremes fan.
Rest peacefully, Mary Wilson. 
As a young lad,. I was madly in love with Diana Rigg, Petula Clark, and The Supremes.
After trying to pick one Supremes song for half an hour, I give up.
... that's kinda the reason I also rephrased the question in parentheses. Sometimes I'll love a song simply because it's one that I associate intensely with a happy or memorable moment in my life.
I hope you enjoyed the past half-hour! 
I tried both approaches, and found too many powerful associations to narrow the field down.
Thanks for the memories!
