The Supremes A' Go-Go

Infobox Album | Name = The Supremes A' Go-Go
Type = Studio album
Artist = The Supremes


Released = August 25, 1966
Recorded = Fall 1965 - summer 1966
Genre = Pop/soul
Length = 31:54
Label = Motown
M 621
Producer = Brian Holland
Lamont Dozier
Hal Davis
Frank Wilson
Reviews =
* Allmusic Rating|4|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:mneb97w7krrt link]
Last album = "I Hear a Symphony"
(1966)
This album = "The Supremes A' Go-Go"
(1966)
Next album = "The Supremes Sing Holland-Dozier-Holland"
(1967)

"The Supremes A' Go-Go" is a 1966 album by Motown singing group The Supremes. The album was the first album by an all female group to reach the number-one on The Billboard 200 album charts in the United States.

Included are two of the Supremes' Top Ten Billboard Hot 100 hits, the number-nine single "Love Is Like an Itching In My Heart", and the number-one "You Can't Hurry Love". Also present on the album is one other original, "Put Yourself in My Place", and covers of songs by the Four Tops ("Baby I Need Your Loving", "I Can't Help Myself (Sugar Pie Honey Bunch)", "Shake Me, Wake Me (When It's Over)"), The Temptations ("Get Ready"), Martha & the Vandellas ("Come and Get These Memories") Barrett Strong ("Money (That's What I Want)"), The Isley Brothers) ("This Old Heart of Mine (Is Weak For You)"), Nancy Sinatra ("These Boots Are Made for Walkin'"), and The McCoys ("Hang on Sloopy").

Additional songs recorded for the album, but not released were "It's Not Unusual", "Mickey's Monkey", "Uptight (Everything's Alright)", "Can I Get a Witness", "In My Lonely Room", and "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction."

Track listing

ide one

#"Love Is Like an Itching In My Heart" (Holland-Dozier-Holland)
#"This Old Heart of Mine (Is Weak For You)", (Holland-Dozier-Holland, Sylvia Moy)
#"You Can't Hurry Love" (Holland-Dozier-Holland)
#"Shake Me, Wake Me (When It's Over)" (Holland-Dozier-Holland)
#"Baby I Need Your Loving" (Holland-Dozier-Holland)
#"These Boots Are Made for Walkin'" (Lee Hazlewood)

ide two

#"I Can't Help Myself (Sugar Pie Honey Bunch)" (Holland-Dozier-Holland)
#"Get Ready" (Smokey Robinson)
#"Put Yourself in My Place" (Holland-Dozier-Holland, John Thornton)
#"Money (That's What I Want)" (Berry Gordy, Jr., Janie Bradford)
#"Come and Get These Memories" (Holland-Dozier-Holland)
#"Hang on Sloopy" (Wes Farrell, Bert Russell)

Personnel

* Diana Ross- lead vocals
* Mary Wilson - lead and background vocals
* Florence Ballard - background vocals
* Brian Holland and Lamont Dozier: producers, all tracks except those noted
* Hal Davis and Frank Wilson- producers, "These Boots Are Made for Walkin'", "Get Ready", and "Hang on Sloopy"
* The Funk Brothers- instrumentation

ingles history

*"Love is Like an Itching in My Heart" b/w "He's All I Got" (b-side taken from "I Hear a Symphony") (Motown 1094, April 8, 1966)
*"You Can't Hurry Love" b/w "Put Yourself in My Place" (Motown 1097, July 25, 1966)

Chart history

succession box
before = "Revolver" by The Beatles
title = "Billboard" 200 number-one album
years = October 22 - November 4 1966
after = "Doctor Zhivago" (soundtrack)