Meet the Supremes

Infobox Album | Name = Meet the Supremes
Type = Studio album
Artist = The Supremes


Released = December 9 1962
Recorded = 1960 - 1962
Genre = Soul/pop
Length = N/A
Label = Motown
M 606
Producer = Berry Gordy Smokey Robinson Brian Holland
Lamont Dozier | Reviews =
*Allmusic Rating|3|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:qsjn7i7jg7xr~T00 link]
Last album =
This album = "Meet the Supremes"
(1962)
Next album = "Where Did Our Love Go"
(1964)
Misc = Extra album cover 2
Upper caption = Reissue cover
Type = Studio album


Lower caption = Cover for 1965 reissue Singles
Name = Meet the Supremes
Type = Studio album
single 1 = I Want a Guy
single 1 date = March 9, 1961
single 2 = Buttered Popcorn
single 2 date = July 21, 1961
single 3 = Your Heart Belongs to Me
single 3 date = May 8, 1962
single 4 = Let Me Go the Right Way
single 4 date = November 22, 1962

"Meet the Supremes" is the debut album by The Supremes, released in late 1962 on Motown Records. The LP includes the group's earliest singles: "I Want a Guy", "Buttered Popcorn", "Let Me Go the Right Way", and "Your Heart Belongs to Me". The earliest recordings on this album, done between fall 1960 and fall 1961, feature the Supremes as a quartet comprised of teenagers Diane Ross, Mary Wilson, Florence Ballard, and Barbara Martin. Martin left the group in early 1962 to start a family, and the other three girls continued as a trio. Martin is not pictured on the album because of her departure earlier in the year, although her vocals are the recordings, and she never received any royalties from album sales.

None of these singles charted within the top 40 of the Billboard Pop Singles chart, leading to the group being referred to around the Motown offices as the "no-hit" Supremes. By the time of their next LP, "Where Did Our Love Go", the Supremes would have two top 40 hits to their name, one of them, "Where Did Our Love Go", a number-one hit.

"Meet the Supremes" was originally issued only in monaural sound. A stereo remix of the album, with a new cover, was issued along with the original mono version in 1965.

Track listing

ide one

#"Your Heart Belongs to Me" (Smokey Robinson)
#"Who's Lovin' You" (Smokey Robinson)
#"Baby Don't Go" (Berry Gordy, Jr.)
#"Buttered Popcorn" (Gordy, Barney Ales)
#"I Want a Guy" (Gordy, Brian Holland, Freddie Gorman)

ide two

#"Let Me Go the Right Way" (Gordy)
#"You Bring Back Memories" (Robinson)
#"Time Changes Things" (B. Holland, Janie Bradford, Lamont Dozier)
#"Play a Sad Song" (Gordy)
#"Never Again" (Gordy)
#"(He's) Seventeen" (Raynoma Liles, Marv Johnson)

Early Supremes tracks not included on album

Other tracks that were recorded along the same timeline that could have been included on the album include:
* "The Tears", featuring Mary Wilson on lead vocals
* "Save Me a Star", featuring Florence Ballard on lead vocals
* "Heavenly Father", featuring Florence Ballard on lead vocals
* "Hey Baby", featuring Florence Ballard on lead vocals
* "After All", a rare track that features all four group members - including early member Barbara Martin - taking a lead verse.
* "The Boy That Got Away", featuring Diana Ross on lead vocals. Interestingly the second pressing of the album with the alternate artwork incorrectly lists this song as being included on side two.
* "Those DJ Shows", featuring Diana Ross on lead vocals.
* "Too Hot", Diana Ross on lead vocals

All of these recordings have been released in various Supremes/Motown compilations.

Personnel

* Diane Ross, Florence Ballard, Mary Wilson and Barbara Martin: lead and background vocals
* The Funk Brothers: instrumentation
* Berry Gordy: producer (some tracks); Album excutive producer
* Smokey Robinson: producer (some tracks)
* Brian Holland, Lamont Dozier: producers on "Time Changes Things"

ingles history

*"I Want a Guy" b/w "Never Again" (Tamla 54038, March 9, 1961)
*"Buttered Popcorn" b/w "Who's Lovin' You" (Tamla 54045, July 21, 1961; re-recorded version issued in August)
*"Your Heart Belongs to Me" b/w "(He's) Seventeen" (Motown 1027, May 8, 1962)
*"Let Me Go the Right Way" b/w "Time Changes Things" (Motown 1034, November 22, 1962)

Chart history