The Supremes Sing Country, Western and Pop

Infobox Album | Name = The Supremes Sing Country, Western and Pop
Type = Cover album
Artist = The Supremes


Released = February 22 1965
Recorded = 1962 – 1965
Genre = Country/pop/soul
Length = N/A
Label = Motown
M 625
Producer = Clarence Paul
Reviews =
* Allmusic Rating|3|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:ctq8b5f4tsqa link]
Last album = "A Bit of Liverpool"
(1964)
This album = "The Supremes Sing Country, Western and Pop"
(1965)
Next album = "We Remember Sam Cooke"
(1965)

"The Supremes Sing Country, Western and Pop" is an album recorded by The Supremes, issued by Motown Records 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 and 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.

Track listing

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

Personnel

* Diana Ross, Florence Ballard, and Mary Wilson: lead and background vocals
* Clarence Paul: producer
* Lawrence Horn: co-producer on "My Heart Can't Take It No More"

ingles 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