The Supremes

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Album Info

Release Date: 2008-29

Label: Motown

Comes in three panel foldout faux velvet boxset with 76-page booklet with extensive essays, track annotations, and a full discography.
Comes with limited edition (in the first 25,000 set) bonus disc "An Evening with The Supremes".
"An Evening with The Supremes" comes in cardboard sleeve.

Tracks 1-1, 1-2 released as single Tears Of Sorrow (1960)
Tracks 1-5, 1-7 included on the album Meet The Supremes (December 1962)
Overdubbed version of track 1-8 issued on the album The Motor-Town Revue Vol. 1 - Recorded Live At The Apollo (April 1963)
Track 1-9 included on the album Sing Country Western & Pop (February 1965)
Tracks 1-10 to 1-16 included on the album Where Did Our Love Go (August 1964)
Tracks 1-17, 1-21, 2-5, 2-14, 2-19, 3-3, 3-16 issued with a different mix on the album 25th Anniversary (August 1986)
Track 1-18 from the album We Remember Sam Cooke (April 1965)
Tracks 1-20, 1-22 included on the album More Hits By The Supremes (July 1965)
Track 1-23 issued with a different mix on the album From The Vaults (January 1979)

Tracks 2-1 to 2-4 included on the album I Hear A Symphony (February 1966)
Tracks 2-7, 2-8 included on the album The Supremes - A' Go-Go (August 1966)
Tracks 2-10, 2-11, 2-13 included on the album The Supremes Sing Holland-Dozier-Holland (January 1967)
Track 2-16 from the album The Supremes Sing Rodgers & Hart (May 1967)

Tracks 3-1, 3-2, 3-4 included on the album Reflections (March 1968)
Tracks 3-5, 3-7 to 3-10 included on the album Love Child (December 1968)
Tracks 3-11, 3-12 from the album Diana Ross & The Supremes Join The Temptations (September 1968)
Track 3-13 from the album The Original Sound Track From TCB (December 1968)
Tracks 3-14, 3-15 included on the album Let The Sunshine In (May 1969)
Track 3-17 issued on the MCA Special Markets album It's Happening! (1969)
Tracks 3-18, 3-22, 3,-23 included on the album Cream Of The Crop (November 1969)
Track 3-19 issued with a different mix on the cd The Never-Before-Released Masters (1987)
Track 3-21 included on the album Together (September 1969)

Tracks 4-1, 4-3 included on the album Right On (April 1970)
Track 4-5 from the album New Ways But Love Stays (October 1970)
Track 4-6 from the album The Magnificent 7 (September 1970)
Track 4-7 included on the album The Return Of The Magnificent Seven (June 1971)
Track 4-9 included on the album Touch (June 1971)
Tracks 4-11, 4-12 from the album Floy Joy (May 1972)
Tracks 4-13, 4-14 included on the album The Supremes Produced And Arranged By Jimmy Webb (November 1972)
Track 4-15 from the album The Supremes At Their Best (June 1978)
Track 4-16 from the album The Supremes (April 1975)
Track 4-17 from the album High Energy (April 1976)
Extended version of track 4-18 issued on the cd Funkology Volume Three (Dance Divas) (1996)
Track 4-20 from the album Mary, Scherrie & Susaye (October 1976)

CD 5 : Recorded Detroit - New York - Las Vegas, 1964-1970
Track 5-1 live at the 20 Grand, 1964
Tracks 5-2, 5-3 live at the Fox Theater, 1964
Tracks 5-4 to 5-6 live at the Copa, 1965
Tracks 5-7, 5-9 live at the Roostertail, 1966
Tracks 5-10, 5-11 live at the Roostertail, 1967

Previously Unreleased: 1-3, 1-4, 1-6, 1-19, 1-24, 2-6, 2-9, 2-12, 2-15, 2-17, 2-20 - 2-22, 3-6, 3-20, 4-4, 4-10, 5-1 to 5-11
Previously Unreleased Mix: 1-8, 1-17, 1-18, 1-21, 1-23, 2-3, 2-5, 2-14, 2-18, 2-19, 3-3, 3-13, 3-16, 3-19
#2-20 - 2-22 Live At The Copa 1967

Digitally remastered from the original analog master tapes using 24-Bit Technology at Universal Mastering Studios East.


Original mono singles masters were used on disc 1, tracks 5, 7, 10, 11 and 12; disc 2, tracks 11 and 13; disc 3, track 18; and disc 4, track 1 and 2. The familiar hit tracks on discs 1-3 were sourced from the stereo mixes found on the original Diana Ross & The Supremes' "Greatest Hits" albums. Disc 4 sources also include original stereo singles and album masters. "Tears Of Sorrow" and "Pretty Baby" were transferred to digital by Walter DeVenne, our thanks to him. Other tracks were sourced from the original stereo album masters or outtake reels, except those newly mixed, as noted below.

Stop! In The Name Of Love (alternate), Shake, Take Me Where You Go, People, Everything Is Good About You, The Happening (demo), All I Know About You, When You Wish Upon A Star, Somewhere (Live), You're Nobody 'Til Somebody Loves You (Live), TCB, Are You Sure Love Is The Name Of This Game and Stormy were mixed from the original analog session tapes on vintage equipment by Suha Gur at Universal Mastering Studios-East.

Essays by Berry Gordy, and Brian Chin and Nathan Jones. Edited by Harry Weinger. Much appreciation and love to our interviewees, especially Ms. Suzanne de Passe, and Cholly Atkins, Harold Beatty, Shelly Berger, Janie Bradford, Johnny Bristol, Dick Clark, Lamont Dozier, Brian Holland, Edward Holland Jr., Bob Jones, Freda Payne, Professor Maxine Powell, Scott Regan, Claudette Robinson, Luther Vandross, Dionne Warwick, and Frank Wilson.

A note on the track annotations: Recording dates are culled from the original Detroit session logs, which were begun in summer 1961 to coordinate the bookings of the basement studio at 2648 West Grand Boulevard. The logs generally do not list recording dates for live tapings or "outside" sessions – i.e., New York, Chicago, or Los Angeles - unless the dates were noted upon the tapes' return to Detroit. The earliest songs collected here were recorded either without overdubs or the vocals were overdubbed in the same day as the backing tracks. On later sessions, as recording became more sophisticated, backing tracks were laid down first, then various overdubs or re-cuts were made over successive days – usually, but not exclusively, meaning the addition of horns, lead vocals, background vocals, strings and other elements – hence the multiple recording dates. The Detroit logs were discontinued in September 1974. Recordings after that date cannot be accurately determined, but they generally took place a few months before the single or album release date.

Photographs and LP covers courtesy of Motown Archives, except as noted. [...] Memorabilia and picture sleeves courtesy of Gary Johns and Paul Barker.

Cover photo, pp. 20, 33 and 59 courtesy of Mark Bego, p. 61 courtesy of Andrew Skuro. Painting pp. 68 and 69 by Robert Taylor.

Everything Is Good About You: A Supreme Thanks to the musicians, producers, writers, arrangers, singers, handclappers and footstompers at 2648 West Grand Boulevard; to Kedar Massenburg, Kojo Bentil, Bruce Resnikoff, Ritchie Gallo, Bill Levenson and Andy McKaie; and Randy Anderson, Paul Barker, Mark Bego, Manny Bella, Robert Bernstein, Lisa Brodus, Dick Clark Productions, Jeffrey T. Clark, Marshall Crenshaw, Ashley Culp, Richard J. Davis, Frans de Beer, Jim Dobbe, Barbara Dozier, Ms. Esther Edwards, Jim Feldman, Carl Feuerbacher, Alan Forney, JoAnn Frederick, Ramone Galbert, Caldin Gill-Street, Dave Godin, Rickie Goodman, Amy Herot, Thomas Ingrassia, Chris Jenner, Charlie Katz, Robin Kirby, Jason Kleve, Matthew Knowles, John Lester, Rhonda Malmlund, Patte Medina, Meira Murakami, Deborah Palladino, Ken Patrick, Mike Ragogna, Chris Ramos, Carolyn Robbins, Cheryl Robinson, Mike Rosenberg, George Solomon, Pat St. John, Dana Smart, Dyan Spigner, Rick Stone, Tom Terrell, Derek Thornton, Shirley Washington, Catherine and Robert West, Adam White, Tony White, Randall Wilson, Ben Young and to the late Alan Betrock.

A very special thanks to all The Supremes: Forever Came Today.

And, as always, thank you to Mr. Berry Gordy.

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