Johnny & Jackey-Someday We'll Be Together

The Original version of The Supremes 12th #1 song was released in 1961 on Tri-Phi records

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[spintation]

No they killed it as in they nailed it, did it, brought it on home!!!

[MotownMaster]

@spintation and i mean killed it, as in ruined the sentimate of the song

[spintation]

Sweet but the Supremes kill it.

[MotownMaster]

@spintation exactly they killed it, this version is way better, the only reason Diane's version hit number 1 is because everyone took it as her saying that her Mary and Cindy will be together again, im almost certain if she wasnt leaving The Supremes at that point, thier version would only have gone top 30, and not to number 1

[MotownMaster]

Yeah but this version is way better, and originally it was offered to JR Walker as a follow-up to "What Does It Take" but he said "Go ahead and give it to The Supremes", LOL

[MotownMaster]

Imma say it one more time, The Supremes version ISNT The Supremes its just Diana Ross with 2 sessions singers so its a sham, and this version is way better and the only reason Diana Ross did this song is cuz Jr walker turned it down after recording "What Does It Take To Win Your Love"

[timmy841212]

Is it me or were early Detroit recordings ska-like? There's something Caribbean about this version.

To be honest, I prefer the Supremes' version but this is cool too.

[GarudaStudio]

@stage7 Motown hadn't used Mary and Cindy on any Supremes single recording in years (duets with the Temptations excepted) - I don't think they were particularly concerned about them being on this one either. Of course, ideally that's what should ahve been done, but Motown saw The Supremes as just Diana Ross. I don't even think they ever meant to give the New Supremes (who, with Terrell on lead and with Wilson & Birdsong actually singing, were much better) a fair shot.

[stage7]

@stage7 With That said, I still say Mary and Cindy COULD'VE been added to the recording of Someday once it was decided to be a Supreme Song instead of just feigning the sound with 'another' voice and blurring it with still more 'waterfalls'... :-) I think it would've sounded 'better' WITH them! They proved that 'Live'!

[stage7]

@stage7 By the way, this was in NO way a 'begrudgery' comment! I'm just 'colorful' and expressive with my speech to be more effective. I TOTALLY agree that it was realized to have GREAT marketing potential to do it that way as a last Supremes' single with Diane! Tho' the girls were recording with JEAN, No one knew that then. And as Diane, Jean recorded, alot with the Andantes withOUT the Supremes. Much of the recording was separate... and then put together.

[stage7]

@GarudaStudio I know 'exactly' why Mary and Cindy weren't On the recording! I know all of that! BUT MY point is, that they could've added them TO the recording just like they add 'others' to THEIR recordings after 'they've' finished the session! It's happened many times. And when it was decided that it was going to be a Supremes' song, they could've without a 'notion', done it. But it WAS evident that it was 'tried' to fool us with the Mary Wilson 'sound'! That's why they turned it up!

[GarudaStudio]

@stage7 Mary & Cindy aren't on it because, when it was recorded, it was competing for the positon of being Diana Ross' first solo single. Mary & Cindy were already busy recording "New Supremes" material with Jean Terrell.

The decision to release it as "the last Supremes single" was a belated one after Motown realized the marketing potential of using a song called "Someday We'll be Together" to send the Diana-led version of the group off with.

[Russebby]

It's not that it's better or worse, just different. This recording is great in its own right, in its own day. It shows the difference between the simpler production of the early 60's and the lavish overproduction on the late 60's, the reggae-esque feel of the original versus the Americanized standard the Supremes sung. It shows the song is great in and of itself if it can transcend time, like so many other songs that became Motown classics.

[alang13]

Great song. Interesting background story about how Bristol's vocals were added to the Diana Ross version.

[simon4186]

I LOVE MOTOWN!