Diana Ross and The Supremes - Love Child - 45 RPM - ORIGINAL HOT MONO MIX

Original Motown Records #1135

Debut 10/19/1968
Peaked at #1 for two weeks on the Billboard Hot 100 Chart.

Written by P. Sawyer, R.D. Taylor, F. Wilson and D. Richards.

Produced by THE CLAN.
Arranged by Paul Riser.

A very controversial record at the time!

Motown 1960's records were mixed hot in mono,
in order to sound their best on AM mono car and transistor radios of the time. Today's stereo mix doesn't recapture the original sound found only on the vinyl 45 RPM.

This is the original mono mix as heard when this was a huge hit on AM Top 40 radio on stations like WABC New York.

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Category:

Music

Tags:

• Love
• Child
• Diana
• Ross
• Supremes
• Vinyl
• 45
• RPM
• Mono
• The Supremes

[shyphyre]

Is that the origanl factory sleeve with the single? It is the frist time I have seen a classic motown single with the original sleeve.

[WABCRADIO77]

Yes, it's the original Motown sleeve!

In most cases, Motown shipped their records in light brown paper sleeves, but every once in a while they issued sleeves like this to promote their catalog.

[Stoned69]

I can just hear the late great Chuck Leonard playing this back in '68-69 on WABC!

[WABCRADIO77]

Complete with the WABC Chime at the end!

[CenaTv2]

The Supremes sound very good in MONO. This must have been one of the last mono singles to be released as by 1968, stereo was the norm and mono was considered old and out of fashion

[WABCRADIO77]

While stereo singles began to appear in mass around this time (1967 - Example - Doors 45's on Elektra), most 45's were still mono up till about 1971 to 1972, then stereo 45's became the norm. After 1973, mono 45's almost did not exist unless it was a radio station promotional copy. However, there were exceptions!

[supremes1964]

among DIANA ROSS best vocals performance ever! This song ROCKS!

IT JAMS!

[theboyfromxtown]

This 45 is the biz. That intro would leap out of our portable radio speakers and hit you right between the eyes.

That's an interesting DM prefix of QQQ! 484M05 details where this mono version was once stored in the tape library at Hitsville.

[PUPPIElover369]

i am a love child...i just love the fact that i was conceived with love...love to my mum and dad...they were only 16 and 17 years old...i just love it.

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[teddibearsworld]

Motown classics sound no better than on the original 45's. That is a fact, and it is not in dispute!!!

[jasonlava]

Pure win!

[oceanbound222]

JESUS, THIS IS HEAVEN !!!!!!

[cjserrot]

Yes, I agree, it's Diana Ross best delivery. She really did an excellent rendition. Sadly no Supremes (Mary or Cindy) sing in the original recording session. This song is timeless and part of the soundtrack of our lives, so cheers for the Mono version. 

[ruthpaget1]

She could sing out. Wish she would come back and shatter glass!