Fact #90722
When:
Short story:
The
Supremes enter the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart in the USA with Where Did Our
Love Go? It will be their first No1.
Full article:
The Marvelettes knew a hit song when they heard one. After all, they were one of the fledgling Tamla Motown Records' biggest acts, with a self-penned No1 smash, Please Mr Postman, to their credit. So it was that, early in 1964, when Motown's crack hit-writing team, Holland, Dozier and Holland, offered them a new song, Marvelette Gladys Horton responded with admirable candour, "No way am I gonna sing any junk like that." And it wasn't just Gladys. Fellow Marvelette Wanda Rogers rated it "The most pitiful tune we'd ever heard."
Another Motown girl group, nicknamed The 'no-hit' Supremes because they had released eight consecutive flop singles, was offered the song but they also hated it. One member, Mary Wilson, reckoned it had "childish, repetitive lyrics, a limited melody and no drive." Lead vocalist Diana Ross objected, "Wait a minute, what we doing? Getting rejects of The Marvelettes?" But lacking the The Marvelettes' track record, The Supremes were forced unwillingly to record Where Did Our Love Go?
Thus started an unbroken run of five American No1s for The Supremes who managed a total of 12 chart-toppers before Diana Ross quit and scored another five. The Marvelettes never again even sniffed the Top Five.
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Another Motown girl group, nicknamed The 'no-hit' Supremes because they had released eight consecutive flop singles, was offered the song but they also hated it. One member, Mary Wilson, reckoned it had "childish, repetitive lyrics, a limited melody and no drive." Lead vocalist Diana Ross objected, "Wait a minute, what we doing? Getting rejects of The Marvelettes?" But lacking the The Marvelettes' track record, The Supremes were forced unwillingly to record Where Did Our Love Go?
Thus started an unbroken run of five American No1s for The Supremes who managed a total of 12 chart-toppers before Diana Ross quit and scored another five. The Marvelettes never again even sniffed the Top Five.
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