This was not the original choice for following up "When the Lovelight Starts Shining In His Eyes;" that was "Penny Pincher," recorded three times. I believe "Run Run Run" actually was recorded before "When the Lovelight" was recorded. This indeed was the "A" side of the single and not a strong choice.
Here's a little trivia this song came to be when Diane asked Berry if they(The Supremes) could cover a Beach Boys song then a heated arguement start between The Supremes and then Berry Gordy then Berry suggested this
at the time when the Supremes recorded this great tune (which only went to Number 90 on the Billboard Hot 100) they were receiving some great material from HDH that had been rejected by other Motown girl groups (namely, Where Did Our Love Go) - according to Lamont Dozier, they (the Supremes) were low on the totem pole and they couldn't afford to voice their opinions about what they could or couldn't record--
Like most of the Motown singles I always liked the mono mix to this one better. It also lasts about 3 to 5 seconds longer than this here stereo mix. I remember a snippet being played on the radio during the spring of 64. It was edged out by Dave Clark Five's "Bits and Pieces". Though I warmed later to the British Invasion, at that time I hated it, except for the Beatles and Dusty. In reality, this song was recorded before "Love Light". "Freedom" was preferred, though.
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As far as I know, Run Run Run was the "A" side - its even in the Supremes Greatest Hits LP released in 1967. "I'm Giving You Your Freedom" was not on that LP. Logically, that tells me that Run Run Run was the hit.
As a kid, I always thought there were more than two background singers on this recording. Some deep altos there - I guess there were male tenors singing with them. Was it the 4Tops? Perhaps, or maybe some of their members.
@StreetCornerMemories The backing voices along with Mary Wilson and Florence Ballard are Eddie & Brian Holland and the Four Tops, Obie, Duke, Lawrence and Levi.
@szwei85: I agree. It was really Diana Ross & The Supremes who paved the way for all girl groups known to the music world. Their personalities, flair, etc. set the tone for groups like Destiny's Child and even The Spice Girls. But no girlgroup will ever top The Supremes in their musical outlook or popularity. I do know that En Vogue was inspired by The Supremes, but I'd be curious to know about other contemporary girlgroups.
@viewerenthusiast yes and I mean the supremes were something "new" I mean there were many girlgroups in the 60's but the supremes were coloured girls with a lead singer with a really pop-like-sounding voice and they had class.
They didn't need to show tits to get attention they had voices that got the attention in the opposite to most of todays artists who try to look better then they can sing...
@szewei85 yes I always feel ashamed to say I like soul and R&B that's why I always say I love traditional R&B and not "I love R&B" because most people don't even know that there is a BIG different between traditional and modern R&B :D
@Individuell83 not all of todays music is ugly but i must say most of it is.do u know Norah Jones she sang a song called I dont know why.while listening one day i said to myself this sounds familiar.i never found out who she covered it by but i know it was a 60s song.todays songs just dont have meaning in it.keep listening to you tube and you will findthe beauty of the oldies.try the mamas and papas song called My heart stood still.now that was a remake of a 40s song done in 1967.listen to it.
@Individuell83 hi there i found it! i want u to hear it .its motown sounding u will like it.i dont know how to foward it to u.so look on you tube the drifters:when my little girl is smiling.i know u will love it. lie some one posred its a rare gem.peace Desiree.
@Individuell83 i think i goofed.listen to norah jones son Called I dont know why.its a re make od a 30s song.but also please listen to a song sung my thr Mamas and Papas called My Heat Stood Still.there both on you tube so please listen and tell mei know you qlove them.peace Des
@Desiree50 like back in the motown days the funk brothers played their instruments with passion any of them plays his own melody
not just chords on the piano or guitars
and the fifth thing is that they try to record and master really clean there are no noises no natural reverb or anything because mostly is recorded per line-in or in really acoustically dead rooms and all reverb affects and other effects are put on the song with the computer so it sounds so clean and really unnatural...
@Desiree50 the last point is that people back in the days used often harmonies in the background and they had backgroundsingers that were sometimes not even really trained so they had personality in their voices and their voices fixed together perfectly there were some - mastering engieers today would maybe call it like that - mistakes in the songs that let it sounds natural and full and even warm
that is what I miss on most of todays music because everything is so cold and dry
@Individuell83 i can tell your a great music love like me.But im totaly oldies.Theres another song by Norah Jones called Come away with me and i know that was sung by someone else prob in the 60sI know i heard it before.maybe u can find out for me?im going to check and see if i can here the Supremes singing My heart stood still.I love that song with a passion.Tell me what do u think of Brian Wilson? peace Des.
I didn't know the song and so I checked out wikipedia but there was written that she wrote the song for her debut album in 2002 so it seems to ber her song
@Individuell83 ahh so u like come away with me.but what about theother song called I dont know why? can u tell me the orig roots on that one.im dying to know.i know i heard it years ago like in the 60s. your a doll.peace Des
@Desiree50 I don't know why is also a really nice song :)
I googled and found out that the song she sings was written in 99 by Jesse Harris. But Stevie Wonder also sang a song called I Don't Know Why it sounds a little similar but the lyrics and melodies are totally different his song is from 68 written by himself and covered by the rolling stones in 69 and by brian jones and in 70 by the jackson 5 :D
@Individuell83 your a real good friend.im glad we like the same kind music. music puts me in a good mood no matter how sad i get.im going to make up a list of my old time favs and send them to you.thank goodness for you tube.peace Desiree
@Desiree50 thanks :D I also like it to talk to people who know what GOOD music is :D and for me it's the same when I'm sad or pissed and just down I listen to some nice motown or soul stuff and get happy :D
sadly most of them are not even famous and have to work hard to live from the low money they earn as an unfamous singer like Sharon Jones And The Dap-Kings they are a traditional Soul and R&B band with sharon as leadsinger and they produce like back in the days
also there is paolo nutini who has some nice music I got me his new "sunny side up" album last year :)
@Desiree50 I just checked out Don't Know Why by Norah Jones and I have to say I really enjoyed it really chilly blues/jazz song with nice lyrics and I also like the arrangement simple but effective I think :D
@Desiree50 I just checked out the version of My Heart Stood Still by the Mamas and the Papas I think they did it good but not my favourite song by them my favourites are I Call Your Name and Dream A Little Dream Of Me and surely hits like California Dreamin' :D
the supremes also sang My Heart Stood Still on their 67 album The Supremes Sing Rodgers And Hart :)
@theboyfromxtown yup it's included on the new meet the supremes expanded edition cd :D together with some other live recordings from 64 and also from 62
Yeah I know....but at least we got the Velvelettes complete (second) performance out first. *blows raspberry* LOL
I'm trying to remember what the Supremes sang that day.....Lovelight, I Remember You, Run Run Run...and errrrr......might be Breathtaking Guy, Time Changes Things. Both groups did two performances and song changes were made.
Can I say that the Velvelettes got the most positive applause and were considered the winners? Oops, I've said it now!
@theboyfromxtown lol alright xD I was never really a fan of the velvelettes but I like needle in a haystack or he was really saying something
but maybe they were better in these days I mean diane's early voice sounds really different from her later trained voice she used her "growl" often back then you can hear it especially on let me go the right way... but I liked flo and mary's harmonies better sometimes in these days because they had chance to show that they could sing not like in 67 or 66
@SinclairisCool ehm no I don't think so it's "run run run" "standing at the crossroads of love" "anyone who had a heart" "time changes things" "make someone happy" "let me go the right way" and "when the lovelight starts shining trough his eyes" that's what HIPO says
@SinclairisCool :D okay you can listen to the album on "simfy (dot) de" but I'm not sure if you can listen to the songs there because it's a german page if you can search for "meet the supremes" in the right corner and then the album should come up :)
On "Run, Run, Run, I have heard that it was Eddie Holland, Lamont Dozier, Brian Holland and a couple of the Four Tops back there sounding as gruff as possible, hehehehehehe....
alternate take? I don't think so... I also have the where did our love go album in mono now the mono mix sounds a little drier than this one.
This one was actually stereo but I recorded it back then in mono because I didn't know how to set the settings to record in stereo :D so it mixed the stereo mix into mono...
@Individuell83 What I meant was an alternate mix. Actually, the left and right channels are reversed here, but otherwise, this is the original mix from the 1964 album, for sure. However, Motown has an alternate stereo mix of this song. It appears on the Supremes Anthology CD.
BlogShag, thanks for your comment. I never said the record was a hit. I merely threw shade on Phil and props onto HDH!
As you likely know, there was a trove of Phil Spector soundalike records in 1963-64. Some are obscurities (e.g. The Locketts' "Don't You Know"). This was among the best, IMO.
I know I've commented on this song before, but this song sounds even better to me now. Where did our love go is one of my favorite albums and right now I'm kinda obsessed with Long gone lover and Run run run :D
the piano really is fast :D really hard to play... today you could cut it together but back then it was really hard so I think it was recorded in one real take maybe even together with the other instruments on the multitrack tape
I like all their albums but the mixing of the where did our love go album is soo nice and at that time mary and flo weren't turned down and you can hear those nice harmonies like on "your kiss of fire"
Woh..Just been reading it absoloutly bombed chart-wise when it was released..Maybe average folks hated its stubborn eccentricity-the very reason i personally love it haha...
@Individuell83 Hey young man - it's been awhile. How are you? Are you almost done with school? Going on to college. Do no negect your education! Music will always be there. Have you put out any more of your own stuff?
@BlogShag ohh what did you do wrong to get three negatives?? oh yeh, you had an opinion. this is a good song, the backing vocals were still a little doo wop. but this song rocked along with a great beat and alsways sounded good on the album amongst the other tracks.
'Strange but interesting'...Thats why its so frikkin' cool...Its a beautifully bizarre little pop song-Totally eccentric-'specially for '64...Holland/Dozier/Holland were actually pretty experimental with chord changes/rythm shifts/moods..Thats why i love 'em..
Individuell83 - it has been awhile my friend; however I see that you have been very busy posting new and very welcomed additions to the Supremes catalogue. Very well done. Study hard! Your friend, Michael
Hey Michael I don't know why but because of some reason I didn't notice you commented here :D thanks a lot I'm glad you like my stuff and I think I'll record new stuff at the end of this week I'm not sure if I'll post it but I hope I will this time :D
As I recall, "Run Run Run" made it all the way to number 98 on the national top 100 charts. It received next to no airplay even on the Detroit AM stations and none whatsoever on any others. I wonder how the song might have done if H-D-H had left that runaway piano out of the mix. That said, it did have the virtue of being one of the last songs of he decade that you could actually jitterbug to (sort of)..
once the cabel of my my headshell was broken so one of the channels didn't work and so the piano was out and I tell you it wasn't even half as good as the full mix :D
Songs today are sometimes called R&B but I hear neither for the most part any more,especially the rhythm which has lacked for many years now with an over emphasis on lead and the back beat as an after thought.Run Run Run has all the components of great R&B as well as Rock,drive in the rhythm section and decent lead.I love this good old music.
yes for me modern R&B sounds sh**t I'ms sorry to say that but it's the truth what R&B needs it a rouling sound, strong voices which put a strong soulsound into it and good instrumentation.
R&B doesn't need a computer to let it sounds great
what they call R&B today is "Contemporary R&B" and not the normal R&B or traditional R&B
taditional is mostly gone... sadly
in my opinion run run run has also much influence of rock'n'roll
@Individuell83 We discussed this earlier? To be honest, I don't know either. But I believe its a high school in Detroit they probably attended. Looks old doesn't it. Some of the schools I attended in Detroit looked like that. They were old then, look like 'ruins' today, lol!
A much, much better song than that "Da Doo Run Run" nonsense that Phil Specter put out under the name "The Crystals" ('The Crystals", right..just a ame Phil Spector stuck on the record..I think everybody in America was singing backround on that tune..I think I sang backround on it and i was 10 yrs old at the time) I just wonder how Berry Gordy avoided getting sued for this song. Guess cuz this wasn't really a hit. A much, much, much better song though
at the moment I don't really know if "da doo run run" is the song I think it is I'll check it out soon :D
normally I like spectors productions but sometimes it becomes a bit boring because most of the songs sound similar always the same reverb the same instruments and same wall of sound but he was a genius anyway
sadly I recorded this one in mono originally on the record it's stereo but it makes no sense if I re-upload it just to post it in stereo :D
Well, you gotta figure out how you can make some money on these Motown channels you set up. lol! That's the American way, lol. Get some advertising :-) Hitsville really is an "American" story. Barry Gordy did something tremendous out of 2 adjoining houses in a low-income, old neighborhood in Detroit. What they had, they made the most of. Real ingenuity. That's history now. You got plenty of time to make it there!
Individuell, you should make a 'pilgrimage' to the mecca of Hitsville USA. You are such an historian of Motown music. You would really appreciate seeing the simple 2 house studio that turned out so much great music. It really is a fascinating story.
Sorry if this posts twice. Something happened with the message I was writing and it disappeared. So to started again - your are so young to be this knowledgeable about this period and genre of music. Did you discover this on your own? Are you from the states and transplanted to Germany? You are really remarkable. I must thank you again for giving my memories long forgotten.
lol yes I got to the supremes by myself I first heard them in radio and recorded them on tape when I was about 11-12
then when I got the old stereo from my parents I also got their records and there was one from the supremes it wasn't their record but one from my uncle however this is how I came to the supremes :D
I was about the same age as you when the Supremes release Where Did Out Love Go and it became popular. LOVE Martha and the Vandellas, Mary Wells, The Temptations, The Crystals, The Ronnettes, and on and on. I was a Motown baby. Grew up with them. Country Western Pop album I have is in stereo. It is in storage in NYC. Please if you have time, post what you have even in mono. Take good care of yourself.
lol yes I also love traditional R&B and soul from motown especially the supremes martha and the vandellas kim weston hattie littles and I love some stuff from ray charles aretha franklin sam cooke dusty springfield also the ronettes and the shirelles but I don't have much from them only 2 songs or so you have the stereo version? wow I think most of the album is already online here but if you want some just mail me :D
Sorry to keep posting so often, but you have me remembering so many songs from you youth. I see that you have posted a couple of songs from album Little Bit of Liverpool. Do you have anything from their Country Western and Pop album?
yes I have all of their released albums :D not all on computer but the others on vinyl
and yes indeed I also have the country western and pop album on vinyl and on my computer :D but SADLY only in mono the stereo version is really rare... I only have it makes no difference not in stereo
this song is way to cute!
carolinaguy1973 2 months ago in playlist Diana Ross & The Supremes
suppose to be a Phil Spector sound alike.
4lionking 2 months ago
It should have been reissued after Where Did Our Love Go hit big.
It has that same energy
srercrcr 3 months ago
Insane CHUNE!!!!
Rufskin13 4 months ago
This was not the original choice for following up "When the Lovelight Starts Shining In His Eyes;" that was "Penny Pincher," recorded three times. I believe "Run Run Run" actually was recorded before "When the Lovelight" was recorded. This indeed was the "A" side of the single and not a strong choice.
waynebrasler 4 months ago
I love, love love this song.... truely I do... everything they did 90 percent was amazing....
deathbyaraven 4 months ago
diana ross very young!
tobal47 5 months ago
thumbs for diana ross!!
apez7127 5 months ago
One of the Supreme's best songs, yet not that many people know it.
prytania3 5 months ago in playlist GIrl groups early 60s
Here's a little trivia this song came to be when Diane asked Berry if they(The Supremes) could cover a Beach Boys song then a heated arguement start between The Supremes and then Berry Gordy then Berry suggested this
coolsweetgroovy 6 months ago
I love all three,Mary,Diana,Florence
mizzfoxy9 6 months ago
i love this tune, the supremes were in their prime when i was a youngster but i do not recall this song, it truly captures the sound of that time!!!
slapbush 6 months ago
diana ross is sooooooo cute!
danceforlife1846 6 months ago in playlist The Supremes
Girls gather around me and hear the news 'he finaly kissed me oh happy day' !! I love you Diana Ross you are the best singer ever!!!! I love you.
Cris3861 7 months ago
backing track similar to da do run ron
tickntimebombfun 8 months ago
are the Four Tops on this song?
Dianaross70 8 months ago
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coolsweetgroovy 8 months ago
The Black Beach Girl RIP Flo
coolsweetgroovy 8 months ago
beloved SUPREMES,FOREVER YOUNG,forever great,
mizzfoxy9 9 months ago 3
@mizzfoxy9 hehe sooo true
Individuell83 9 months ago
at the time when the Supremes recorded this great tune (which only went to Number 90 on the Billboard Hot 100) they were receiving some great material from HDH that had been rejected by other Motown girl groups (namely, Where Did Our Love Go) - according to Lamont Dozier, they (the Supremes) were low on the totem pole and they couldn't afford to voice their opinions about what they could or couldn't record--
christheone8773 10 months ago
Like most of the Motown singles I always liked the mono mix to this one better. It also lasts about 3 to 5 seconds longer than this here stereo mix. I remember a snippet being played on the radio during the spring of 64. It was edged out by Dave Clark Five's "Bits and Pieces". Though I warmed later to the British Invasion, at that time I hated it, except for the Beatles and Dusty. In reality, this song was recorded before "Love Light". "Freedom" was preferred, though.
tas6010 11 months ago
@tas6010 I prefer the stereo-version of this one I think
but I really like the single/mono version of "you can't hurry love" better then the stereo version
I like how the bass cuts off in the beginning and then comes back in :D
Individuell83 11 months ago
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supersondessixties 1 year ago
As far as I know, Run Run Run was the "A" side - its even in the Supremes Greatest Hits LP released in 1967. "I'm Giving You Your Freedom" was not on that LP. Logically, that tells me that Run Run Run was the hit.
StreetCornerMemories 1 year ago 2
@StreetCornerMemories yes that's true Run Run Run was a small hit for the Supremes before they got famous with Where Did Our Love Go.
And as you said I'm Giving You Your Freedom is not on the Greatest Hits album, but on the Where Did Our Love Go Album
Individuell83 1 year ago
was this song on the 'b' side of a hit song? never heard it before
gayle2020 1 year ago
@gayle2020 no the song itself was a single B-side to it was I'm Giving You Your Freedom :D
Individuell83 1 year ago
@gayle2020 Came out in February 1964 as Motown 1054 and written by Holland-Dozier-Holland
Chicago10281 1 year ago
As a kid, I always thought there were more than two background singers on this recording. Some deep altos there - I guess there were male tenors singing with them. Was it the 4Tops? Perhaps, or maybe some of their members.
StreetCornerMemories 1 year ago
@StreetCornerMemories so as a kid you had a good ear :D yes the four tops are singing with flo and mary on the background :)
Individuell83 1 year ago
@StreetCornerMemories The backing voices along with Mary Wilson and Florence Ballard are Eddie & Brian Holland and the Four Tops, Obie, Duke, Lawrence and Levi.
DetroitLives313 1 year ago
keyshia cole fans
9577frasier 1 year ago
Background vocals by Florence Ballard and Mary Wilson and Lamont Dozier and Eddie Holland
Bok97 1 year ago
@Bok97 thats what wikipedia NOW says but actually as it said before before someone changed it it is the four tops helping out
Individuell83 1 year ago
@Individuell83 Yes it's the TOPS!!!
HaliB75 1 year ago
@HaliB75 well that't what I said :P
Individuell83 1 year ago
There is male voices in the background but it does not sound like The 4 Tops
generationll 1 year ago
Are the Four Tops helping out on the backgroupd? There are definitely some male voices back their, I just don't know who.
carolinaguy321 1 year ago
@carolinaguy321 indeed they are helping out :)
Individuell83 1 year ago
@szwei85: I agree. It was really Diana Ross & The Supremes who paved the way for all girl groups known to the music world. Their personalities, flair, etc. set the tone for groups like Destiny's Child and even The Spice Girls. But no girlgroup will ever top The Supremes in their musical outlook or popularity. I do know that En Vogue was inspired by The Supremes, but I'd be curious to know about other contemporary girlgroups.
viewerenthusiast 1 year ago
@viewerenthusiast yes and I mean the supremes were something "new" I mean there were many girlgroups in the 60's but the supremes were coloured girls with a lead singer with a really pop-like-sounding voice and they had class.
They didn't need to show tits to get attention they had voices that got the attention in the opposite to most of todays artists who try to look better then they can sing...
Individuell83 1 year ago
@viewerenthusiast NOOOOOOOO JUST THE SUPREMES WHICH PAVED THE ROAD FOR SOMEEEE GIRL GROUPS
LOCKSONLOCKS 1 year ago
is it just me only who thinks the supremes is the destinys child of 1960s haha :D
szewei85 1 year ago
@szewei85 for me they are the best girlgroup or maybe even just a group
forever :D
Individuell83 1 year ago
@Individuell83 haha yeah always will...they the only group left that made R&B the real thing unlike today R&B craps
szewei85 1 year ago
@szewei85 yes I always feel ashamed to say I like soul and R&B that's why I always say I love traditional R&B and not "I love R&B" because most people don't even know that there is a BIG different between traditional and modern R&B :D
Individuell83 1 year ago
This tune was written as if Martha and the Vandellas were recording it-
christheone8773 1 year ago
@christheone8773 yes it has a much stronger R&B influence than most of the other supremes songs
but who knows maybe the vandellas even recorded their vocals to this song :D
Individuell83 1 year ago
I love Mary Wilson.
Desiree50 1 year ago 2
@Desiree50 so do I but not just her :D
I love all of them
Individuell83 1 year ago
@Individuell83 sorry babe there all great.im glad i lived in the era of there great great music and so many other great artists too.how lucky was i?
Desiree50 1 year ago
@Desiree50 I think more lucky then people like me who grew up in the 90's with todays ugly music
Individuell83 1 year ago
@Individuell83 not all of todays music is ugly but i must say most of it is.do u know Norah Jones she sang a song called I dont know why.while listening one day i said to myself this sounds familiar.i never found out who she covered it by but i know it was a 60s song.todays songs just dont have meaning in it.keep listening to you tube and you will findthe beauty of the oldies.try the mamas and papas song called My heart stood still.now that was a remake of a 40s song done in 1967.listen to it.
Desiree50 1 year ago
@Individuell83 hey friend im looking for a certain song.I think its by the drifters call when my little girl is smiling.can u help out.peace Des
Desiree50 1 year ago
@Desiree50 sorry I don't know it
I checked out "simfy" and "deezer" but it's not one
I also have a LO with their greatest hits but it's not on it sorry :(
Individuell83 1 year ago
@Individuell83 hi there i found it! i want u to hear it .its motown sounding u will like it.i dont know how to foward it to u.so look on you tube the drifters:when my little girl is smiling.i know u will love it. lie some one posred its a rare gem.peace Desiree.
Desiree50 1 year ago
@Individuell83 i think i goofed.listen to norah jones son Called I dont know why.its a re make od a 30s song.but also please listen to a song sung my thr Mamas and Papas called My Heat Stood Still.there both on you tube so please listen and tell mei know you qlove them.peace Des
Desiree50 1 year ago
@Desiree50 hey thanks :)
I will listen I like the mamas and the papas I have a cassette from them with their 16 greatest hits from 69 I think
I think there are some things today that makes not to like modern music
at first the compressing songs today are compressed so hard that there are mostly not quiet and loud parts but all is on the same amplitude.
Second thing is these unreal computer made instrumentals third thing there is no passion anymore in the instrumentals and no details
Individuell83 1 year ago
@Individuell83 my fav instrumentals are the Ventures.something tells me u like them too!!! Peace,Des
Desiree50 1 year ago
@Desiree50 like back in the motown days the funk brothers played their instruments with passion any of them plays his own melody
not just chords on the piano or guitars
and the fifth thing is that they try to record and master really clean there are no noises no natural reverb or anything because mostly is recorded per line-in or in really acoustically dead rooms and all reverb affects and other effects are put on the song with the computer so it sounds so clean and really unnatural...
Individuell83 1 year ago
@Desiree50 the last point is that people back in the days used often harmonies in the background and they had backgroundsingers that were sometimes not even really trained so they had personality in their voices and their voices fixed together perfectly there were some - mastering engieers today would maybe call it like that - mistakes in the songs that let it sounds natural and full and even warm
that is what I miss on most of todays music because everything is so cold and dry
Individuell83 1 year ago
@Individuell83 i can tell your a great music love like me.But im totaly oldies.Theres another song by Norah Jones called Come away with me and i know that was sung by someone else prob in the 60sI know i heard it before.maybe u can find out for me?im going to check and see if i can here the Supremes singing My heart stood still.I love that song with a passion.Tell me what do u think of Brian Wilson? peace Des.
Desiree50 1 year ago
@Desiree50 I like this norah jones song :D
I didn't know the song and so I checked out wikipedia but there was written that she wrote the song for her debut album in 2002 so it seems to ber her song
Individuell83 1 year ago
@Individuell83 ahh so u like come away with me.but what about theother song called I dont know why? can u tell me the orig roots on that one.im dying to know.i know i heard it years ago like in the 60s. your a doll.peace Des
Desiree50 1 year ago
@Desiree50 I don't know why is also a really nice song :)
I googled and found out that the song she sings was written in 99 by Jesse Harris. But Stevie Wonder also sang a song called I Don't Know Why it sounds a little similar but the lyrics and melodies are totally different his song is from 68 written by himself and covered by the rolling stones in 69 and by brian jones and in 70 by the jackson 5 :D
Individuell83 1 year ago
@Individuell83 your a real good friend.im glad we like the same kind music. music puts me in a good mood no matter how sad i get.im going to make up a list of my old time favs and send them to you.thank goodness for you tube.peace Desiree
Desiree50 1 year ago
@Desiree50 thanks :D I also like it to talk to people who know what GOOD music is :D and for me it's the same when I'm sad or pissed and just down I listen to some nice motown or soul stuff and get happy :D
Individuell83 1 year ago
@Desiree50 but now after a preach :D
there are still some nice singers out there
sadly most of them are not even famous and have to work hard to live from the low money they earn as an unfamous singer like Sharon Jones And The Dap-Kings they are a traditional Soul and R&B band with sharon as leadsinger and they produce like back in the days
also there is paolo nutini who has some nice music I got me his new "sunny side up" album last year :)
Individuell83 1 year ago
@Desiree50 I just checked out Don't Know Why by Norah Jones and I have to say I really enjoyed it really chilly blues/jazz song with nice lyrics and I also like the arrangement simple but effective I think :D
Individuell83 1 year ago
@Desiree50 I just checked out the version of My Heart Stood Still by the Mamas and the Papas I think they did it good but not my favourite song by them my favourites are I Call Your Name and Dream A Little Dream Of Me and surely hits like California Dreamin' :D
the supremes also sang My Heart Stood Still on their 67 album The Supremes Sing Rodgers And Hart :)
Individuell83 1 year ago
@Desiree50 I agree with you sis
coolsweetgroovy 8 months ago
I like this song but it sounds kinda cartoonish.
stu0812 1 year ago
@stu0812 cartoonish? :D lol okay
Individuell83 1 year ago
@Individuell83 Yeah not in a bad way. Just sounds like something that would be on an old comedy. lol
stu0812 1 year ago
@stu0812 lol some nice disney cartoons? :D
Individuell83 1 year ago
RIP FLORENCE BALLARD
Desiree50 1 year ago
When the Supremes competed with the Velvelettes in the Battle of the Bands in February 1964, they performed this song.
theboyfromxtown 1 year ago
@theboyfromxtown yup it's included on the new meet the supremes expanded edition cd :D together with some other live recordings from 64 and also from 62
Individuell83 1 year ago
@Individuell83
Yeah I know....but at least we got the Velvelettes complete (second) performance out first. *blows raspberry* LOL
I'm trying to remember what the Supremes sang that day.....Lovelight, I Remember You, Run Run Run...and errrrr......might be Breathtaking Guy, Time Changes Things. Both groups did two performances and song changes were made.
Can I say that the Velvelettes got the most positive applause and were considered the winners? Oops, I've said it now!
theboyfromxtown 1 year ago
@theboyfromxtown lol alright xD I was never really a fan of the velvelettes but I like needle in a haystack or he was really saying something
but maybe they were better in these days I mean diane's early voice sounds really different from her later trained voice she used her "growl" often back then you can hear it especially on let me go the right way... but I liked flo and mary's harmonies better sometimes in these days because they had chance to show that they could sing not like in 67 or 66
Individuell83 1 year ago
@theboyfromxtown
Do you have The Battle of the bands video or audio?
SinclairisCool 1 year ago
@SinclairisCool
I WISH I had the video. I have heard both performances of the Velvelettes
theboyfromxtown 1 year ago
@theboyfromxtown okay I didn't even know the velvelettes sang it too
Individuell83 1 year ago
@SinclairisCool no sadly not but the supremes songs they performened live are on the new Meet The Supremes Expanded version CD that you can buy :D
Individuell83 1 year ago
@Individuell83
Ahh right. I shall go and look for it :L
SinclairisCool 1 year ago
@SinclairisCool but hurry :D I heard they made only 10.000 of it
Individuell83 1 year ago
@Individuell83
There are only two songs on there from the greystone ballroom :L
SinclairisCool 1 year ago
@SinclairisCool ehm no I don't think so it's "run run run" "standing at the crossroads of love" "anyone who had a heart" "time changes things" "make someone happy" "let me go the right way" and "when the lovelight starts shining trough his eyes" that's what HIPO says
Individuell83 1 year ago
@Individuell83
LOL! i just re cheeked and you were right :L
SinclairisCool 1 year ago
@SinclairisCool :D okay you can listen to the album on "simfy (dot) de" but I'm not sure if you can listen to the songs there because it's a german page if you can search for "meet the supremes" in the right corner and then the album should come up :)
Individuell83 1 year ago
...love this...always have...flip side of what hit.?
yedon68 1 year ago
@yedon68 It actually was an a-side
b-side was I'm Giving You Your Freedom :)
Individuell83 1 year ago
On "Run, Run, Run, I have heard that it was Eddie Holland, Lamont Dozier, Brian Holland and a couple of the Four Tops back there sounding as gruff as possible, hehehehehehe....
DetroitLives313 1 year ago
if you from detroit tell me what school they standing in front of
diedifficult1 1 year ago
@diedifficult1 hehe I'm not sorry...
but it was dicussed earlier
check out the comments it's somewhere
Individuell83 1 year ago
A much, much better song than that "Da Doo Ron Ron" Which is the result when you type in Run Run Run
123tomot321 1 year ago
Just have to get up and dance when you hear this one.
amalfi348 1 year ago
@amalfi348 haha feel free whatever you want to do while you're listening to this one xD
Individuell83 1 year ago
i STARTING TO BELIEVE THIS BITCH IS A DRAG QUEEN
huge10inchdick 1 year ago
@huge10inchdick who diane?
Individuell83 1 year ago
@Individuell83 yes
huge10inchdick 1 year ago
@huge10inchdick lol okay :D
Individuell83 1 year ago
FINE AS FUCK
fuckwitit10 1 year ago
At first i was thinking "why are the adantes singing background with mary & flo" then i wikipedia it and relised it waas the four tops :P
Still, regardsless of that i love this song big time.
SinclairisCool 1 year ago
@SinclairisCool
lol I didn't know the andantes consisted out of men :D
and yes the four tops also helped them out on when the lovelight starts shining trough his eyes :)
Individuell83 1 year ago
@SinclairisCool It was some of the Four Tops as well as Eddie Holland, Lamont Dozier, Brian Holland on this one.
DetroitLives313 1 year ago
To all whose in high school this song for you.................... class of 1979 What esle
want me to about an high school so
cityboytogo61 1 year ago
This sounds like an alternate take of the song, to me. Regardless, I love this song, from one of my favorite albums of all time!
BristolCircle 1 year ago
@BristolCircle
alternate take? I don't think so... I also have the where did our love go album in mono now the mono mix sounds a little drier than this one.
This one was actually stereo but I recorded it back then in mono because I didn't know how to set the settings to record in stereo :D so it mixed the stereo mix into mono...
Individuell83 1 year ago
@Individuell83 What I meant was an alternate mix. Actually, the left and right channels are reversed here, but otherwise, this is the original mix from the 1964 album, for sure. However, Motown has an alternate stereo mix of this song. It appears on the Supremes Anthology CD.
BristolCircle 1 year ago
@BristolCircle okay :D I also have the real mono mix from the where did our love go album
Individuell83 1 year ago
The Supremes
1alvarouribe 1 year ago
them horns in my right ear are spine tingling!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! That saxophone is absolutely killer!
garyfirth3 1 year ago 9
BlogShag, thanks for your comment. I never said the record was a hit. I merely threw shade on Phil and props onto HDH!
As you likely know, there was a trove of Phil Spector soundalike records in 1963-64. Some are obscurities (e.g. The Locketts' "Don't You Know"). This was among the best, IMO.
ptownfreddy 1 year ago
@ptownfreddy
yes there were some :D but it's not a wonder phil spectors productions were really famous and sold really good not only in the UK
Individuell83 1 year ago
I know I've commented on this song before, but this song sounds even better to me now. Where did our love go is one of my favorite albums and right now I'm kinda obsessed with Long gone lover and Run run run :D
HyruleanaZeldin 1 year ago
@HyruleanaZeldin
yes it was a great album :D I bought it last week a rare dutch pressing on the orange tamla motown label I think it will come this week hopefully :D
my favourite song from the album is your kiss of fire the harmonies of flo and mary are amazing and long gone love was also great
but even the othersong are great
Individuell83 1 year ago
And Holland-Dozier-Holland wrote this here? What do you think of the fast-moving piano in this and the Funk Brothers?
Chicago10281 1 year ago
@Chicago10281
yes they wrote it
the piano really is fast :D really hard to play... today you could cut it together but back then it was really hard so I think it was recorded in one real take maybe even together with the other instruments on the multitrack tape
the funk brothers did a great job as always
Individuell83 1 year ago
Berry Gordy and the Supremes came out with this gem!
Chicago10281 1 year ago
@Chicago10281
yup they did but it sadly wasn't a real hit :D
Individuell83 1 year ago
the supremes when they rocked out
mopable 1 year ago 2
@mopable
yes they really did :D
Individuell83 1 year ago
...'where did our love go" one of the first lp's i bought...one of their best...!
yedon68 1 year ago
@yedon68
yes it really is one of their best albums
I like all their albums but the mixing of the where did our love go album is soo nice and at that time mary and flo weren't turned down and you can hear those nice harmonies like on "your kiss of fire"
Individuell83 1 year ago
Terrific! I had this album. Two thumbs up!
jsbach15 1 year ago
@jsbach15
the baby love album or the original where did our love go album? :D
Individuell83 1 year ago
@Individuell83 The original "Where Did Our Love Go" album :-D Good memories.
jsbach15 1 year ago
@jsbach15
the were did our love album was great
those harmonies soo great :D
it's one of the ones that I still don't have on vinyl yet
Individuell83 1 year ago
Woh..Just been reading it absoloutly bombed chart-wise when it was released..Maybe average folks hated its stubborn eccentricity-the very reason i personally love it haha...
ScenesFromPalacio 1 year ago 2
lol so do I :D
Individuell83 1 year ago
@Individuell83 Hey young man - it's been awhile. How are you? Are you almost done with school? Going on to college. Do no negect your education! Music will always be there. Have you put out any more of your own stuff?
Take care - Michael
blmnml 1 year ago
The back up vocals sound silly! Jeeeez. Ha! Ha!, Hoo! Hoo! Hoo! What the phuck is that??
BlogShag 1 year ago
@BlogShag ohh what did you do wrong to get three negatives?? oh yeh, you had an opinion. this is a good song, the backing vocals were still a little doo wop. but this song rocked along with a great beat and alsways sounded good on the album amongst the other tracks.
wonderboyjoy 1 year ago
It's the most antiquated sounding song they've ever recorded. I have always thought this song sounded very strange, but interesting at the same time.
BlogShag 1 year ago 2
yes it's really a total different style compared to their other songs :D
Individuell83 1 year ago
'Strange but interesting'...Thats why its so frikkin' cool...Its a beautifully bizarre little pop song-Totally eccentric-'specially for '64...Holland/Dozier/Holland were actually pretty experimental with chord changes/rythm shifts/moods..Thats why i love 'em..
ScenesFromPalacio 1 year ago
priceless!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
garyfirth3 1 year ago 4
it really is :D thanks for commenting
Individuell83 1 year ago 2
A Phil Spector-styled record that Phil "life imprisonment" Spector could only wish he had produced!
ptownfreddy 1 year ago
yes and especially the mono version that has muuuuch echo sounds really like a production of him :D
Individuell83 1 year ago
@ptownfreddy uhh, not really this song was not a big hit for them.
BlogShag 1 year ago
P.S. - most importantly - your version of What Becomes Of The Broken Hearted was fantastic! Keep up the good work!
blmnml 1 year ago
Individuell83 - it has been awhile my friend; however I see that you have been very busy posting new and very welcomed additions to the Supremes catalogue. Very well done. Study hard! Your friend, Michael
blmnml 1 year ago
Hey Michael I don't know why but because of some reason I didn't notice you commented here :D thanks a lot I'm glad you like my stuff and I think I'll record new stuff at the end of this week I'm not sure if I'll post it but I hope I will this time :D
thanks for commenting :) god bless you
Individuell83 1 year ago
As I recall, "Run Run Run" made it all the way to number 98 on the national top 100 charts. It received next to no airplay even on the Detroit AM stations and none whatsoever on any others. I wonder how the song might have done if H-D-H had left that runaway piano out of the mix. That said, it did have the virtue of being one of the last songs of he decade that you could actually jitterbug to (sort of)..
B1calaiYa 2 years ago 2
once the cabel of my my headshell was broken so one of the channels didn't work and so the piano was out and I tell you it wasn't even half as good as the full mix :D
Individuell83 1 year ago
Songs today are sometimes called R&B but I hear neither for the most part any more,especially the rhythm which has lacked for many years now with an over emphasis on lead and the back beat as an after thought.Run Run Run has all the components of great R&B as well as Rock,drive in the rhythm section and decent lead.I love this good old music.
1bobair 2 years ago 5
yes for me modern R&B sounds sh**t I'ms sorry to say that but it's the truth what R&B needs it a rouling sound, strong voices which put a strong soulsound into it and good instrumentation.
R&B doesn't need a computer to let it sounds great
what they call R&B today is "Contemporary R&B" and not the normal R&B or traditional R&B
taditional is mostly gone... sadly
in my opinion run run run has also much influence of rock'n'roll
Individuell83 2 years ago
its the triplett rhythm.--- 1-2-3-1-2-3.from the fifties.... cmon now
cshargeit 2 years ago
yes :D
you just need to dance and sing along :D
Individuell83 2 years ago
That saxophone is absolutely killer!
Drummer isn't too shabby either.
Funk Brothers!
pls9927 2 years ago 4
yes this stuff gave it the motown sound
Individuell83 2 years ago
nice song. thank you for posting.
philaboston 2 years ago 2
my pleasure I'm glad you like it :)
merry christmas
Individuell83 2 years ago
ok, Individuell, here's testing your attention to detail. What is the building the Supremes are standing in front of in the picture?
topgeardel 2 years ago
I really don't know lol
I'm sorry we discussed about it a few month ago on an other comment if you scroll down you'll maybe find it
someone thought it was in germany but I don't know
maybe it was a school in detroit?
who knows we'll never know :D
Individuell83 2 years ago
@Individuell83 We discussed this earlier? To be honest, I don't know either. But I believe its a high school in Detroit they probably attended. Looks old doesn't it. Some of the schools I attended in Detroit looked like that. They were old then, look like 'ruins' today, lol!
topgeardel 2 years ago
we not we xD I mean I and other people discussed about it earlier in some comments on this videos
I like old buildings :D they look different and have big rooms :D
Individuell83 2 years ago
A much, much better song than that "Da Doo Run Run" nonsense that Phil Specter put out under the name "The Crystals" ('The Crystals", right..just a ame Phil Spector stuck on the record..I think everybody in America was singing backround on that tune..I think I sang backround on it and i was 10 yrs old at the time) I just wonder how Berry Gordy avoided getting sued for this song. Guess cuz this wasn't really a hit. A much, much, much better song though
sonwamac 2 years ago 3
I'm glad you like it
at the moment I don't really know if "da doo run run" is the song I think it is I'll check it out soon :D
normally I like spectors productions but sometimes it becomes a bit boring because most of the songs sound similar always the same reverb the same instruments and same wall of sound but he was a genius anyway
sadly I recorded this one in mono originally on the record it's stereo but it makes no sense if I re-upload it just to post it in stereo :D
Individuell83 2 years ago
@Individuell83 Who are the male parts in this song next to the female parts?
Chicago10281 1 year ago
@Chicago10281
the four tops joined mary and flo :)
Individuell83 1 year ago
Well, you gotta figure out how you can make some money on these Motown channels you set up. lol! That's the American way, lol. Get some advertising :-) Hitsville really is an "American" story. Barry Gordy did something tremendous out of 2 adjoining houses in a low-income, old neighborhood in Detroit. What they had, they made the most of. Real ingenuity. That's history now. You got plenty of time to make it there!
MrDennyman 2 years ago 2
yes you're right
I send a application to the warner music group and they said it would take 4-6 weeks till they reply and if they don't they're not interested
however 6 weeks aren't over yet but yes I need to promote myself much more
I need try performe somewhere where I can get viewers xD and public to get money
Individuell83 2 years ago
Individuell, you should make a 'pilgrimage' to the mecca of Hitsville USA. You are such an historian of Motown music. You would really appreciate seeing the simple 2 house studio that turned out so much great music. It really is a fascinating story.
MrDennyman 2 years ago
well my biggest dreams in life would be becoming a singer and go to the USA especially detroit to visit hitsville and also to visit flo's grave
but I'm just 16 and I have no money :(
Individuell83 2 years ago
Is this really from 1966-67?? It sounds kind of primitive, esp. the recording compared to their other recordings before it. I would have said 1963.
Is it possible they didn't release it when recorded, then released it years later?
MrDennyman 2 years ago 2
lol no indeed it's not from 66 or 67 it's from 64 behind the title of the video is written 1967
the album of which I got it from is called baby love and this is from 67 not the song :P
sorry but the description is old I should change it.
It was originally futured on the where did our love go album :)
Individuell83 2 years ago
Sorry if this posts twice. Something happened with the message I was writing and it disappeared. So to started again - your are so young to be this knowledgeable about this period and genre of music. Did you discover this on your own? Are you from the states and transplanted to Germany? You are really remarkable. I must thank you again for giving my memories long forgotten.
blmnml 2 years ago
lol yes I got to the supremes by myself I first heard them in radio and recorded them on tape when I was about 11-12
then when I got the old stereo from my parents I also got their records and there was one from the supremes it wasn't their record but one from my uncle however this is how I came to the supremes :D
and I really LOVE them
and no I'm from germany :D
Individuell83 2 years ago
I was about the same age as you when the Supremes release Where Did Out Love Go and it became popular. LOVE Martha and the Vandellas, Mary Wells, The Temptations, The Crystals, The Ronnettes, and on and on. I was a Motown baby. Grew up with them. Country Western Pop album I have is in stereo. It is in storage in NYC. Please if you have time, post what you have even in mono. Take good care of yourself.
blmnml 2 years ago
lol yes I also love traditional R&B and soul from motown especially the supremes martha and the vandellas kim weston hattie littles and I love some stuff from ray charles aretha franklin sam cooke dusty springfield also the ronettes and the shirelles but I don't have much from them only 2 songs or so you have the stereo version? wow I think most of the album is already online here but if you want some just mail me :D
Individuell83 2 years ago
Sorry to keep posting so often, but you have me remembering so many songs from you youth. I see that you have posted a couple of songs from album Little Bit of Liverpool. Do you have anything from their Country Western and Pop album?
blmnml 2 years ago
yes I have all of their released albums :D not all on computer but the others on vinyl
and yes indeed I also have the country western and pop album on vinyl and on my computer :D but SADLY only in mono the stereo version is really rare... I only have it makes no difference not in stereo
and comment as often you want :D
Individuell83 2 years ago