In May 1968 Diana Ross & The Supremes released the single 'Some Things You Never Get Used To' on the Motown label, but it stalled for three weeks at number 30 on the U.S. Billboard pop chart in July, and it became the lowest-charting Supremes single since 1963. This lack of success became the catalyst for Berry Gordy to revamp song-writing for The Supremes, since the loss of Motown's premier production team Holland–Dozier–Holland, which Gordy had assigned as the group's sole producers after the success of 'When the Lovelight Starts Shining Through His Eyes'. Motown originally created an album to capitalize on the success of the single, but when it failed to hit the top of the charts the album was scrapped, and the single, plus a few other tracks, were included on the group's next official album, 'Love Child', in November 1968. The majority of the remaining songs remained unreleased until box sets and expanded re-issues began appearing some 20 years after they were recorded, and now here they are on the album which would have appeared if the title track had been more successful. Although 'You've Been So Wonderful To Me' appeared on the 'Love Child' album, I thought the strings were a bit obtrusive at the start so I've toned them down a bit, and because it was quite a short album I've added a couple of contemporary unreleased recordings to the end.
Track listing
01 Some Things You Never Get Used To
02 Heaven Must Have Sent You
03 He's My Sunny Boy
04 Come On And See Me
05 Can I Get A Witness
06 You've Been So Wonderful To Me
07 My Guy
08 It's Not Unusual
09 Just A Little Misunderstanding
10 Uptight (Everything's Alright)
11 What Becomes Of The Broken Hearted
12 Blowin' In The Wind
13 Treat Me Nice John Henry
14 The Beginning Of The End Of Love
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