The true favorites...

[lucky2012]

I've realized that when it comes down to it, there are a select few singles and/or album tracks over the years [one, two, maybe three, from any album] that I will always want and choose to listen to over the others. I guess they are my true favorites.

For example, from Meet the Supremes:
single: Your Heart Belongs To Me
album track: You Bring Back Memories
EE track: The Tears [my favorite Mary lead]

from WDOLG:
singles: Come See About Me, Where Did Our Love Go
album track: I'm Giving You Your Freedom
EE track: Let Me Hear You Say I Love You

from Bit of Liverpool: You Can't Do That, House of the Rising Sun
from CWP: Lazybones, Baby Doll
from Sam Cooke: Ain't that Good News [favorite Florence lead], Bring It On Home To Me

from More Hits:
single: Stop! In the Name of Love
album track: I'm In Love Again
EE track: Nothing But Heartaches [alternate vocal, love the instrumental break]

from IHAS:
single: My World Is Empty Without You
album track: Everything's Good About You
EE track: Wonderful, Wonderful [alternate version]

from A Go Go:
single: You Can't Hurry Love
EE tracks: Love Is Like An Itching In My Heart [The SupreMix], Shake Me Wake Me[duet version with Four Tops]

from Sing HDH:
single: You Keep Me Hangin' On
album track: Mother You, Smother You [mono version]
EE track: Going Down For The Third Time [extended mix]

[gman]

I listen much more to the Jean era group today than the DR or SP era's...I play Touch and Floy Joy more than any other LPS...

Touch
single...Nathan Jones [[although I prefer the fuller sounding single mix..)
LP Cut...Have I Lost You?

Floy Joy
single Automatically Sunshine
LP Cut Over and Over.

[reese]

I should really be working but these are the studio tracks that I always have to listen to when I play 60s Supremes albums.

MEET
Time Changes Things

WHERE DID OUR LOVE GO
Long Gone Lover
Your Kiss of Fire

MORE HITS
Mother Dear
Who Could Ever Doubt My Love

I HEAR A SYMPHONY
Any Girl in Love
Everything is Good About You

SUPREMES' A GO GO
Shake Me, Wake Me
Put Yourself in My Place

SUPREMES SING HDH
I'll Turn to Stone
Going Down for the Third Time

REFLECTIONS
I'm Gonna Make It
Bah-Bah-Bah

SUPREMES JOIN THE TEMPTATIONS
A Place in the Sun
Then

LOVE CHILD
Keep an Eye
How Long Has That Evening Train Been Gone

LET THE SUNSHINE IN
Hey Western Union Man
Discover Me

TOGETHER
Stubborn Kind of Fellow
Why [[Must We Fall in Love)

CREAM OF THE CROP
Till Johnny Comes
The Beginning of the End

[sup_fan]

I'll do all the albums and just list 1 track that is a fav, always showing up on my playlists and with me constantly hitting Repeat to listen to it again. I'll also try to avoid just listing the hits and go more for the other tracks and only the tracks on the original releases. I could make a whole separate list for bonus tracks, alt versions, EE vault tracks, etc.

Meet The Supremes - You Bring Back Memories

Where Did Our Love Go - Long Gone Lover

A Bit of Liverpool - You Really Got a Hold On Me

Sing Country, Western & Pop - Makes No Difference Now

We Remember Sam Cooke - Ain't That Good News

More Hits - Back in My Arms Again

Live at the Copa - Queen of the House

Merry Christmas - Silver Bells

I Hear A Symphony - Wonderful, Wonderful tied with Stranger in Paradise

A Go Go - You Can't Hurry Love

Sing HDH - Going Down for the Third Time

Sing R&H - Falling in Love With Love

Reflections - Misery Makes My Heart It's Home

Live at London's Talk of the Town - Millie/Rose/Mame medley

Sing and Perform Funny Girl - Sadie, Sadie

Love Child - How Long Has The Evening Train Been Gone

Join the Temptations - Try It Baby

TCB - Mrs Robinson

Let the Sunshine In - Discover Me

Together - Why Must We Fall In Love

Cream of the Crop - Beginning of the End

GIT - Leading Lady medley

Farewell - Hey Big Spender

Right On - Loving Country

New Ways But Love Stays - Together We Can Make Such Sweet Music

Magnificent 7 - For Your Love

Touch - Here Comes the Sunrise

Return of the Magnificent 7 - I'm Glad About It

Dynamite - Melodie

Floy Joy - Now the Bitter

Jimmy Webb - Cheap Lovin tied with 5:30 Plane tied with Once in the Morning

Live in Japan - For Once In My Life/Cabaret/I'll Take You There/Thank You

Supremes 75 - You Can't Stop a Girl in Love

High Energy - Only You

Mary, Scherrie & Susaye - Sweet Dream Machine

[RanRan79]

Great thread Lucky!

Reese your list looks like one of mine, with a few exceptions.

I think I've said this in the forum before, but as a Supreme fan, I'm not all that into a lot of the hit singles. Sure, I play some, and I'll let them all play through in a playlist. But my fandom is really due to those album tracks and previously vaulted material. That's where the group often really shined, IMO.

So when it comes to the hits, the only ones I really ever say "I gotta hear that one right now" and play it often, are: "Where Did Our Love Go", "Back In My Arms Again", "Heartaches", "My World", "Hurry", "Hangin", "Love Is Here", "Reflections", "Gonna Make You Love Me", and "Someday".

Now my absolute favorite album tracks from Meet the Supremes thru Sing R&H: "Time Changes Things", "I'm Giving You Your Freedom", "You Can't Do That", "Makes No Difference Now" and "Funny" and "You Need Me" [[three way tie), "Good News", "I'm In Love Again", "Make Someone Happy", "Twinkle, Twinkle" and "Silver Bells" [[tie), "Everything Is Good About You", "Shake Me, Wake Me", "I'll Turn to Stone", "Falling In Love With Love".

Previously unreleased from each album: "Those DJ Shows", "Come On Boy" and "Mr. Blues" [[tie), "I Saw Him Standing There", "Makes No Difference Now" 1963 version, "Good News" extended, "It's All Your Fault", "Oh Holy Night", "All of a Sudden", "Mother Dear 66", "Hangin On" extended alternate version, "There Is a Small Hotel".

[sup_fan]

Ok - here's my unreleased tracks, EE list. I'm still trying to take 1 track from each release

25th Anniversary - Blue Room

Never Before Released Masters - Too Hurt To Cry

70s Anthology - Oh My Poor Baby

Greatest Hits and Rare Classics - Everybody's Got the Right to Love alt version

Best of the Supremes and the Four Tops - Melodie alt version

Pink Box Set - You're Nobody Till Somebody

Joined Together - Amen

Magnificent - I Had a Dream

This Is The Story - Tears Left Over

Let Yourself Go - I Can Never Recover

Mary Wilson Anthology - Automatically Sunshine alt version tied with If You Let Me

Let The Music Play - You Can't Hurry Love alt vocal

There's a Place For Us - Put On A Happy Face tied with Around the World in 80 Days

The R&H collection [[1987 version) - Little Girl Blue

50th Anniversary Singles - Love Child alt version

Meet the Supremes EE - After All

Where Did Our Love Go EE - Come on Boy

More Hits EE - You're Nobody Till Somebody live in Paris

At the Copa EE - Enjoy Yourself

Merry Christmas - Christmas Song duet with Diana and Mary

I Hear A Symphony EE - Unchained Melody alt version

A Go Go EE - Mother Dear

Sing HDH EE - You Can't Hurry Love live

Sing R&H EE [[2002 version) - Bewitched alt version

[reese]

If we're going with unreleased tracks, my faves would be [[limiting it to ten):

Those DJ Shows
Just Call Me
Ooowee Baby
Take Me Where You Go
Just a Little Misunderstanding
Stay in My Lonely Arms
You Made Me Feel Like Everything's Alright
Sweet Thing
Stormy
You're Gonna Hear from Me

[JohnnyB]

IÂ’ll play along. My favorite album cut from each 60Â’s Supremes LP:

Meet - Time Changes Things
WDOLG - Ask Any Girl, IÂ’m Giving You Your Freedom
More Hits - Mother Dear, Whisper You Love Me Boy, The Only Time IÂ’m Happy
Symphony - Everything Is Good About You
AÂ’ Go Go - Shake Me, Wake Me [[When ItÂ’s Over)
HDH - Love Is In Our Hearts, ThereÂ’s No Stopping Us Now
Reflections - I CanÂ’t Make It Alone
Join The Temptations - Try It Baby
Love Child - YouÂ’ve Been So Wonderful To Me
LTSI - Will This Be The Day
Together - Why Must We Fall In Love
COTC - Loving You Is Better Than Ever

[daviddh]

Meet the./ Buttered Popcorn
out take /Mr Blues

WDOLG /ask any girl /standing at the crossroads/ long gone lover

BOL /you really got a hold on me

Country /lazy bones/ it doesnt make a difference

We Remember/ Bring it on home to me / Shake

More Hits / whisper you love me/ im in love again

Merry Xmas/ silver bells/my favorite things

IHAS /stranger in paradise/ hes all i got

a go go/ itching in my heart/shake me wake me

sing Rogers n Hart/ Manahatten/ blue moon

reflections/ misery makes it s home. /im gonna make it

Join the temptations
/ Try it baby /funky broadway

LC/ ill set you free/chains of love/ the evening train

LTSI/ let the music play
Together/ why must we fall in love

COTC/ cant you see its me/you gave me love

others gems
Stormy
Oowee Baby
come on and see me
beginning of the end of love

70s supremes
lovin country/ but i love you more
together we can make such sweet music/shine on me/time to break down
have i lost you.here comes the sunrise
now the bitter now the sweet/over and over
when can brown begin /i keep it hid
color my world blue/ cant stop a girl in love
only you
sweet dream machine / you are the heart of me

[lucky2012]

So interesting to know all your thoughts on your favorites. It seems that some tracks appear on lists fairly often. [Something about how great minds think...? ]

My first list was from albums by DMF [the Classic Supremes]. The DRATS albums were both harder and easier for me because I find I don't listen to them as much or as often. [Love Child being the exception] Like many here have said, DRATS was a different group, albeit with my favorite lead singer. There are no EE versions of the DRATS albums [yet?].

from Sing Rogers & Hart [the one DMF album not on my previous post]:
There's a Small Hotel, My Romance, Falling In Love With Love

from Reflections:
single: Reflections
album cuts: I Can't Make It Alone, Bah Bah Bah

from Love Child:
single: Love Child
album cuts: How Long Has That Evening Train Been Gone, Keep An Eye

from Join/Together w/Temptations:
Try It Baby, Funky Broadway, Why Must We Fall In Love

from Funny Girl: The Music That Makes Me Dance, Funny Girl

from Let The Sunshine In:
*I don't really have any favorite listens from this album but No Matter What Sign and Living In Shame are sometimes guilty pleasures.

from Cream of the Crop:
single: Someday We'll Be Together
album cuts: You gave Me Love, Till Johnny Comes
honorable mention: Loving You Is Better Than Ever.

[daviddh]

You guys made me now want to make a playlist.
I did forget ,Coronet Man from FG.

[floyjoy678]

MEET THE SUPREMES
single: Buttered Popcorn [[mono version), Let Me Go the Right Way
album tracks: You Bring Back Memories, He's Seventeen
EE: The Boy That Got Away, Hey Baby, The Tears

WHERE DID OUR LOVE GO?
single: Come See About Me, A Breathtaking Guy, Where Did Our Love Go
album tracks: Long Gone Lover
EE: Bye Baby, Mr. Blues, Don't Take It Away

LIVERPOOL, CWP, SAM COOKE
album tracks: A Hard Day's Night, Because, Makes No Difference Now, Rock And Roll Banjo Band, Bring It On Home, Ain't That Good News

MORE HITS
single: Back In My Arms Again, Nothing But Heartaches
album tracks: Mother Dear, Honey Boy
EE: It's All Your Fault, Take Me Where You Go

I HEAR A SYMPHONY
single: --
album tracks: Any Girl In Love, He's All I Got
EE: Unchained Melody [[alternate)

A GO GO
single: You Can't Hurry Love [[mono), Love Is Like An Itching
album tracks: Shake Me Wake Me, Baby I Need Your Loving
EE: Mother Dear [[version 3)

SING HDH
single: Love Is Here, You Keep Me Hanging On
album tracks: Mother You Smother You
EE: Going Down For Third Time [[extended)

okay I'm tired and not much a fan of the later albums anyway

[lucky2012]

You guys made me now want to make a playlist.
I did forget ,Coronet Man from FG.

Yes, a personal playlist of our true favorites is a great idea. I have actually thought of a playlist like this before but never got around to it. My titles would have been Why I Love The Supremes and Why I Love Diana Ross. [I had been thinking about which songs I would choose to explain to casual or non-fan friends my love for anything Motown. But, lol, I'm afraid these lists would be too long and too much ]

[lucky2012]

MEET THE SUPREMES
single: Buttered Popcorn [[mono version), Let Me Go the Right Way
album tracks: You Bring Back Memories, He's Seventeen
EE: The Boy That Got Away, Hey Baby, The Tears

WHERE DID OUR LOVE GO?
single: Come See About Me, A Breathtaking Guy, Where Did Our Love Go
album tracks: Long Gone Lover
EE: Bye Baby, Mr. Blues, Don't Take It Away

LIVERPOOL, CWP, SAM COOKE
album tracks: A Hard Day's Night, Because, Makes No Difference Now, Rock And Roll Banjo Band, Bring It On Home, Ain't That Good News.............

okay I'm tired and not much a fan of the later albums anyway

LOL. I hear you!