Reflections (The Supremes album)

Infobox Album | Name = Reflections
Type = Studio album
Artist = Diana Ross & the Supremes


Released = March 25 1968
Recorded = 1967 - 1968
Genre = Pop/Soul
Length = 41:19
Label = Motown
MS 665
Producer = Brian Holland
Lamont Dozier
Smokey Robinson
Reviews =
* Allmusic Rating|3|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:6hdsa9ugb23d link]
Last album = "Diana Ross & The Supremes Sing Disney Classics"
(1967)
This album = "Reflections"
(1968)
Next album = "Live at London's Talk of the Town"
(1968)

"Reflections" is a 1968 released album recorded for Motown Records by Diana Ross & the Supremes, the first regular studio LP to display the new billing of the group formerly known as "The Supremes". It contains the singles "Reflections", "In and Out of Love", and "Forever Came Today." Also included are covers of songs made famous by Martha and The Vandellas ("Love (Makes Me Do Foolish Things)") and The 5th Dimension ("Up, Up and Away"). Also present are songs written by other famous names, including "Bah-Bah-Bah" co-written by Motown songstress Brenda Holloway with her younger sister, Patrice, an original Smokey Robinson compostion titled "Then", and "What the World Needs Now Is Love" by Burt Bacharach and Hal David, which Motown planned to release as a single in the spring of 1968, but it was cancelled before release. It also contains a cover of Bobbie Gentry's "Ode to Bille Joe", whose original recording kept the single #2 "Reflections" from peaking at the top spot on the Billboard Hot 100 in September 1967, and #1 on Cashbox.

The album includes the final songs the Supremes recorded with their main creative team of Holland-Dozier-Holland before the three writers/producers departed Motown over royalty and title disputes. Although Florence Ballard recorded some of this album before being fired from the group in June 1967, her replacement Cindy Birdsong along with Mary Wilson recorded several songs and appears on the album cover. One of the album's singles, "Forever Came Today", was later covered by The Jackson 5 on their 1975 album "Moving Violation".

Track listing

ide one

#"Reflections" (Holland-Dozier-Holland)
#"I'm Gonna Make It (I Will Wait For You)" (Debbie Dean, Dennis Lussier)
#"Forever Came Today" (Holland-Dozier-Holland)
#"I Can't Make It Alone" (Holland-Dozier-Holland)
#"In And Out Of Love" (Holland-Dozier-Holland)
#"Bah-Bah-Bah" (Brenda Holloway, Patrice Holloway)

ide two

#"What The World Needs Now Is Love" (Burt Bacharach, Hal David)
#"Up, Up and Away" (Jimmy Webb)
#"Love (Makes Me Do Foolish Things)" (Holland-Dozier-Holland)
#"Then" (Smokey Robinson, Ronald White, Warren Moore)
#"Misery Makes Its Home In My Heart" (Smokey Robinson, Warren Moore)
#"Ode To Billie Joe" (Bobbie Gentry)

CD bonus tracks

*"Stay In My Lonely Arms" (Holland-Dozier-Holland) - previously unreleased
*"All I Know About You" (Holland-Dozier-Holland, Frank DeVol) - previously released only as Motown 1107B (B-side of "The Happening", March 20, 1967)

Personnel

*Diana Ross: lead vocals
*Mary Wilson: background vocals
*Florence Ballard: background vocals
*Cindy Birdsong: background vocals
*The Andantes (Jackie Hicks, Marlene Barrow, and Louvain Demps): background vocals
*Brian Holland, Lamont Dozier: producers on all tracks unless otherwise noted
*Smokey Robinson: producer on "Then" and "Misery Makes Its Home In My Heart"

ingles history

*"Reflections" b/w "Going Down for the Third Time" (b-side taken from "The Supremes Sing Holland-Dozier-Holland") (Motown 1111, July 24, 1967)
*"In And Out Of Love" b/w "I'll Guess I'll Always Love You" (b-side taken from "The Supremes Sing Holland-Dozier-Holland") (Motown 1116, October 25, 1967)
*"Forever Came Today" b/w "Time Changes Things" (b-side taken from "Meet the Supremes") (Motown 1122, February 29, 1968)

Chart history