Nathan Jones & Up The Ladder To The Roof - Supremes

[italoman9]

I like Roof speeded up with higher vocals here, but I never liked the stereo album version of the song, compared with the remastered single stereo version. What were they thinking on the album cut, making Mary and Cindy's vocals so turned down as to sound almost non-existent and wimpy behind Jean's, just when the group needed to sound cohesively like three strong equally heard singers? Great song choices post, though! Roof is my favorite Supremes record.

[tennesseegator]

@bigbear39ca "Stoned Love" was a Billboard #1 R&B hit in 1970 for the Supremes but stopped at #7 on the Hot 100.

[quietbillionaire]

Any accurate discography will remind you that Stoned Love was a #1 hit for the 70's Supremes! Check it out!

[quietbillionaire]

Nathan Jones! One of my favorite Supreme songs!

[celticdollface]

Superb,!!!! brings back sooo many memories. 

[meemeeuuu]

I remember it hit #1

[derfeluk]

Spine tingling stuff ... Summer '71 ... beer , chips, girls, beer, girls, chips, girls, girls ..... memories!

[raremark]

Great songs by the greatest girl group ever! Jean Terrell has one of the sweetest sounds this side of heaven.

[njblack73]

Oh man...had this album on 8-track, played on my mother's giant console stereo.

[belizeambushgal]

@SinclairisCool i really like nathan jones by ms. franklin.

[1974Asha]

I never knew the title of up the ladder to the roof, i cud never figure out wat they were saying, lol! the last bit sounded like ta root, cud never figure out how that fitted into any sentence or language even LOL

[mountfields]

was a wonderfull sound on our Radio mobile stereo 8 with the doors open, must have really p----d of our neighbours, at least it was "proper music" not like the booming stuff we here comming from cars today.

[mikal9000]

Hugely underrated song -- one of the best singles ever released by the Supremes (Diana or no), or even Motown. Thanks for posting!

[fernbern0131]

LOVE THIS SONG. i met Jean Terrell a couple of years ago. She was one of the nicest people I've ever met. And she can still sing! Diana Ross can't sing anymore. Must be the booze.

[TWTR4EVER]

@fernbern0131 If anyone wants reassurance regarding your comment about Diana Ross please visit You Tube "Diana Ross-My World Is Empty Without You-Live-Los Angeles 2010-06-09" She is mostly off key, the high pitch note that once she was famous for are now flat and cracked, sad, very sad! He/She who persist perseveres, Mary Wilson is living proof, today she can out sing Diana Ross any time!

[timdub70]

This is my version of Al Bundy's "Anna (Go To Him)". It was July 1971, I was 9 years old and my family took our brand new 1971 Dodge to Colorado for vacation. I think we were stopped at a light near Seven Falls and all I heard was the "spring and fall" part of the song and it had bugged me for 38 years until now. I don't think that any Nebraska radio station ever played it.

[titostacos]

the last song gets cut off a bit early, no?

[mopaint10]

Great song then in 1971 but seldom gets played....too bad.. those were the day.

[rpsjr70]

AMEN TO THAT ! TWICE

[mopaint10]

Rare song but one of their best....1971 what a time.

[metrogoldwyn]

song was way ahead ot its time. great example of what the supremes could do

without Diana!

[fernbern0131]

Yeah... a year before I was born, but I wish I could have been around then. I was born too late. LOL.

[paul51]

One of the best singles from this lineup, and certainly one of the best publicity photos from this lineup too!! Thanks.

[TWTR4EVER]

@paul51 The Black & White photo in the back of the album "Touch", together with "The Return Of The Magnificent Seven" with The Four Tops, the Afros photos from "New Ways But Love Stays" are superb together with the head shots on the cover of "Touch" the relax photos in the studio with Jimmy Webb in the back of the simply titled "The Supremes" produced and arrange by Jimmy Webb this is the first with Lynda Laurence even if Cindy Birdsong contributed the vocals and "Floy Joy" with Smokey, SUPERB!