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The Supremes Sing Country, Western & Pop is the fourth studio album recorded by The Supremes, issued by Motown in February 1965 (see 1965 in music). The album was presented as a covers/tribute album of country songs, as Ray Charles had done with his album Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music. However, over half of the selections on The Supremes Sing Country, Western & Pop were written in-house by Motown staffer Clarence Paul. One of the songs on the album is "My Heart Can't Take It No More", which the Supremes had recorded in 1962 and released in 1963 as a single.

One of Paul's songwriting partners on the album was his fourteen-year-old charge Stevie Wonder, making the Supremes the first act besides Wonder himself to record Wonder's songs.

Session group, the Andantes, appear on all but two of the tracks. They accompany Ross completely above Wilson and Ballard on Baby Doll.[citation needed]

The album was a modest success peaking at #79 on the Billboard Top 200. It sold around 200,000 copies.[3] Though the album did not make the Billboard Country Album charts, Diana would later record a couple of solo country singles most famously, "Sorry Doesn't Always Make it Right".

Track listing

  1. "Funny How Time Slips Away" (Willie Nelson, originally by Nelson)
  2. "My Heart Can't Take It No More" (Clarence Paul)
  3. "It Makes No Difference Now" (Floyd Tillman, originally by Eddy Arnold)
  4. "You Didn't Care" (Paul)
  5. "Tears in Vain" (Paul)
  6. "Tumbling Tumbleweeds" (Bob Nolan, originally by Sons of the Pioneers)
  7. "Lazy Bones" (Johnny Mercer, Hoagy Carmichael)
  8. "You Need Me"
  9. "Baby Doll" (Paul, Stevie Wonder)
  10. "Sunset" (Paul, Wonder)
  11. "(The Man With the) Rock and Roll Banjo Band" (Paul, Berry Gordy, Jr.)

Personnel

Singles history

  • "My Heart Can't Take It No More" b/w "You Bring Back Memories" (from Meet the Supremes) (Motown 1040, February 2, 1963)

Chart history

Album

Name Chart (1965) Peak
position
The Supremes Sing Country, Western & Pop U.S. Billboard 200 79

Singles

Name Chart (1963) Peak
position
"My Heart Can't Take It No More" U.S. Billboard Hot 100 129
U.S. Billboard Bubbling Under Hot 100 29

References

  1. ^ The Supremes Sing Country, Western & Pop at Allmusic
  2. ^ Brackett, Nathan (2004). The New Rolling Stone Album Guide. Page 797: Fireside Books. ISBN 0-7432-0169-8.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location (link)
  3. ^ "Forums". Greasy Lake Community.
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