what is the Supremes best singles

[daviddh]

i was curious as to what the thoughts were as to what the supremes best songs were, not the biggest selling per say. i used to think Stop was the ultimate Supremes single but certainly Baby Love, and You Cant hurry Love could also be considered classics.
what do you think are the best of all the singles??
heres mine. not exactly in order but top ten
1.Love child. classic song but classic Ross vocal.
2.Someday We'll Be Together. same as above.love the feel of it.
3.Up The Ladder To the Roof. wow this still sounds fresh to me. jean soars on this.
4.My World Is Empty. again ,Dianas vocal is perfection. love the Motown remixed version. you can hear how good Diana is vocally.
5. You Keep Me Hangin On. love the Motown Story version.love how Flo and Mary are up there with Diana on this.just rocks it out of the park.
6.Stoned Love. just a Motown classic all the way around
7.Im Gonna Make You Love Me. for a cover, they nailed it.this has grown on me,now I love it.
8.Reflections. think this is the coolest of their songs
9./10 Stop in The Name Of Love/ you Cant Hurry Love,both classics


bubbling under ..Love Is AN Itching in My Heart.still my fav
Im Gonna Let My Heart Do The Walking, tremendous return to form.

[milven]

Two of my favorite songs of all time are Supremes songs.
Up The Ladder To The Roof
and
Someday We'll Be Together.

Yes, I know now that technically Someday is Diana, but when it came out, I loved it as a Supremes song, and I still have that feeling.

I never tire of those two songs

[sup_fan]

Well my fav sup song is You Can’t Hurry Love but I prefer the #1 cd version w the backgrounds elevated. The mono version isn’t my fav

But other top singles are Ladder, Someday, Back in Arms, I’m gonna make

I didn’t pick Stoned Love or Let YourselfGo since the single edits of those songs is inferior. Although the songs themselves in full form are fantastic

[Circa 1824]

1. You Keep Me Hanging On
2. You Can't Hurry Love
3. Reflections
4. Love Child
5. I Hear A Symphony
6. Somethings You Never Get Used To

[daviddh]

somethings you never get used to is a great Ross vocal. she just spit the words right out.

[vgalindo]

1. Someday we’ll be together
2. I hear a Symphony
3. Reflections
4. Baby Love
5. Come see about me

[sophisticated_soul]

Chronologically:

Let Me Go The Right Way
Back In My Arms Again
I Hear A Symphony
Love Is Like An Itching In My Heart
Reflections

[lakeside]

Reflections
In And Out Of Love
Come See About Me
Up The Ladder
Stoned Love
You Can't Hurry Love
Stop! In The Name Of Love

[detmotownguy]

High Energy
Heart do the Walking
Ladder
Stoned
Hanging On
Itching
Heart of Me
Nathan

[marv2]

High Energy
Heart do the Walking
Ladder
Stoned
Hanging On
Itching
Heart of Me
Nathan

Excellent list DET. It spans their entire career as a group.

[luke]

You keep me hangin on
Back in My Arms Again
Stop In name in name of Love
Love is Like An Itching you n My Heart
Let Me Go the Right Way
Stoned Love
Where did our love go

[lucky2012]

Top Five:
You Keep Me Hangin' On
You Can't Hurry Love
Love Child
Reflections
Stop! In the Name of Love

Next Five:
Where Did Our Love Go
Baby Love
Come See About Me
My World Is Empty Without You
Up The Ladder to the Roof

sup_fan is right. Stoned Love single was inferior to the album track.
So I chose Up the Ladder.
And I realize Love Child is technically Diana & the Andantes but, for me
[[and the world), it is Diana Ross & the Supremes.

[JohnnyB]

Top Five:
You Keep Me Hangin' On
You Can't Hurry Love
Love Child
Reflections
Stop! In the Name of Love

Next Five:
Where Did Our Love Go
Baby Love
Come See About Me
My World Is Empty Without You
Up The Ladder to the Roof

sup_fan is right. Stoned Love single was inferior to the album track.
So I chose Up the Ladder.
And I realize Love Child is technically Diana & the Andantes but, for me
[[and the world), it is Diana Ross & the Supremes.

My Top 10:

I Hear A Symphony
You Keep Me Hangin’ On
Love Child
Baby Love
Stop!
Someday, We’ll Be Together
Reflections
Love Is Like An Itching In My Heart
Love Is Here And Now You’re Gone
My World Is Empty Without You

[benross]

Of the 45 singles [[including the four Coke ads, international releases, duets with The Temptations, the public service message, the Dr. Goldfarb promo and the holiday song) I identified 26 contenders for "best singles," with I Want A Guy as #26 and My Heart Can't Take It No More as #20. Of the rest, here are my top choices:

#11 Your Heart Belongs To Me
#10 Someday We'll Be Together
#09 I Hear A Symphony
#08 You Can't Hurry Love
#07 You Keep Me Hanging On
#06 Come See About Me
#05 My World Is Empty Without You
#04 Stop! In The Name Of Love
#03 Where Did Our Love Go
#02 Love Is Like An Itching In My Heart
#01 Reflections

[floyjoy678]

Come See About Me
Love Is Like An Itching In My Heart
A Breathtaking Guy
You Can't Hurry Love
You Keep Me Hanging On
Love Is Here And Now You're Gone
Some Things You Never Get Used To
Love Child
Stoned Love

[Bluebrock]

My world is empty without you
You keep me hanging on
Stoned Love
Reflections
Love Child
Come see about me
Up the ladder to the roof
You can't hurry love
Nathan Jones
Someday we'll be together.

[Albator]

Love Child
You keep hangin on
Reflection
My world is empty without you
Someday
Baby love
Stop in the name of love

[florence]

01 You Can't Hurry Love
02 My World Is Empty Without You
03 Stop! In The Name Of Love
04 In And Out Of Love
05 Nathan Jones
06 Reflections
07 Love Child
08 The Happening
09 Stoned Love
10 The Composer

Way out ahead YCHL - whenever I feel down I play this and it immediately cheers me up - it's such a joyful, infectious and uplifting record.

Nor surprising that in the Streaming Age it's their biggest song.

Love the bass on My World - never understood why this didn't go all the way to #1.

Must be one of the few people who prefer Nathan to Stoned Love.

Not a fav of many but I have a soft spot for The Composer - love the segment where it goes heh, heh, heh

[johnjeb]

Where Did Our Love Go
Come See About Me
You Keep Me Hangin' On
I Hear A Symphony
Reflections
Back In My Arms Again
Love Is Like An Itching In My Heart
My World Is Empty Without You
The Happening
Lovelight Through His Eyes
Up The Ladder To The Roof
Nathan Jones

[RanRan79]

I tend to pass on a lot of the biggest singles because they are so overplayed everywhere. I guess I'd have to make my list of "best" based on how often I play the songs specifically vs if they come on during a listen of the whole album or a playlist. So the ones I play the most in no particular order [[but probably chronologically):

Buttered Popcorn
A Breath Taking Guy
Where Did Our Love Go
Nothing But Heartaches
My World Is Empty
You Can't Hurry Love
You Keep Me Hanging On
Love Is Here and Now You're Gone
Forever Came Today
Someday We'll Be Together
Automatically Sunshine
Bad Weather

[captainjames]

The Supremes best work for me whether Diana and the Andantes or Mary, Flo, and Cindy were.

I Hear A Symphony - [[when it was released it was like WOW !! that's different)
Someday We'll Be Together [[ The Breakup up the No # 1 female group and the last # 1 song of 1969)

[alanconnor_1]

Top 10

Where Did Our Love Go
Come See About Me
Reflections
You Keep Me Hangin’ On
Let Me Go The Right Way
Automatically Sunshine
Some Things You Never Get Used To
Floy Joy
When The Lovelight Starts Shining Through His Eyes
Love Is Like An Itching In My Heart

[Circa 1824]

Love Child
In and Out of Love
Stop! In the Name of Love
My World is Empty
You Keep Me Hangin' On
You Can't Hurry Love
Some Thing You Never Get Used To
Where Did Our Love Go
Reflections

[marv2]

Stoned Love
Up the Ladder to the Roof
Come See About Me
I Hear A Symphony
Nathan Jones
Floy Joy
You Keep Me Hanging On

[vgalindo]

Someday We’ll be together
Baby Love
Come see about me
Reflections
I hear a Symphony
Forever came today
Love is hear and now your gone
Stop in the name of love
Nothing but heartaches
Somethings you never get used to

[jobeterob]

Where Did Our Love Go
Nothing But Heartaches
Love Is Like An Itching in My Heart
You Keep Me Hangin On
Love Child
Someday We’ll Be Together

[Edgar]

1 Bad Weather
2 My World Is Empty Without You
3 You Keep Me Hangin' On
4 Up the Ladder to the Roof
5 You Can't Hurry Love
6 Stoned Love
7 Nathan Jones
8 Where Did Our Love Go
9 The Happening
10 Automatically Sunshine
11 I'm Gonna Let My Heart Do the Walking
12 Reflections

[sup_fan]

hmmmm - this is such a fun yet complex question

most important: Where Did Our Love Go. this launched the girls and established the Sup sound. it's a deceptively simple song and others to come might be more musical or bigger sellers or whatever. but without WDOLG i don't know that any of the rest would have followed

personal fav: You Can't Hurry Love

most innovative: think i'd have to go with Reflections

most dramatic: Stoned Love. the lyrics are so powerful and if you read them as text it's such an amazing message. the massive intro and then the excellent groove. the harmonies and strings. and then it all builds up to the end of the bridge where they sing On and On and On and On and..

most calculated: Love Child. none of the girls were love children and didn't have a LC. the group was not known for political statements and they really didn't leverage the message of this song post release to evolve their image. it's just a perfect pop song that was crafted solely as a hit for the group

most underrated #1: probably Where again.

least known #1: will probably cause some dissenting opinions but i'd say Love Is Here is probably the least familiar #1 to the general public.

underrate single: too many to list. much of the 70s catalog, during the classic era probably My World [[gorgeous follow up to Symphony)

best dance song: Let yourself go

[SatansBlues]

1. Reflections - This is the first song I remember hearing by the Supremes or Motown
2. Come See About Me
3. Nothing But Heartaches - Classic Supremes and Classic Motown.
4. Love Is Like An Itchin'
5. You Can't Hurry Love
6. Back In My Arms Again
7. Up the Ladder
8. I'm Gonna Make You Love Me
9. Stoned Love
10. I'm Gonna Let My Heart Do The Walking.

[marv2]

"Stoned Love"
"Come See About Me"
"Floy Joy"
"Back In My Arms Again"
"He's My Man"
"I'm Gonna Let My Heart Do the Walking"
"Up the Ladder to the Roof"
"Nathan Jones"

[Circa 1824]

“Some Things You Never Get Used To”

[detmotownguy]

"Stoned Love"
"Come See About Me"
"Floy Joy"
"Back In My Arms Again"
"He's My Man"
"I'm Gonna Let My Heart Do the Walking"
"Up the Ladder to the Roof"
"Nathan Jones"
Shame on you Marv... High Energy and We Should Be Closer!! Grrrrr Please revise lol!

[marv2]

Shame on you Marv... High Energy and We Should Be Closer!! Grrrrr Please revise lol!

Well I'm sorry, I thought he said best singles. Excccccusssseeee ME! LOL!