Song of the Day: Diana Ross & The Supremes, “Love Child” #rmf

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Title track from their 1968 album, "Love Child" was Diana Ross & The Supremes’ next-to-last #1 single. It took only three weeks from the time the song was introduced until it became a Top 10 hit, after which it spent two weeks at #1, knocking The Beatles’ "Hey Jude" out of the #1 spot, before Marvin Gaye’s "I Heard It Through The Grapevine" dethroned it. It dealt with the controversial subject of illegitimacy, to which a far greater stigma was attached in 1968. This video is from the song’s debut on The Ed Sullivan Show.

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15 thoughts on “Song of the Day: Diana Ross & The Supremes, “Love Child” #rmf”

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  2. It’s a wonder it ever got played. I wish Mary would have got to sing some also. Great song nonetheless.

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    1. The Supremes kept going after Diana Ross left, so I’m sure that the others got their momnent in the sunlight then. I think Diana was a real diva and the otheres just learned to live with it…

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      1. She is talented of course…I always pull for the underdogs I guess. I wouldn’t have killed her to let the others sing a little. Poor Flo was a tragic case.
        Ross did deserve to be a star so I can’t fault her on that.

        John for some reason I thought she married Gordy but I was wrong…didn’t they have a relationship?

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  3. I remember that performance on Ed Sullivan. Such great songs hitting the #1 spot.

    Love,
    Janie

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    1. That’s why I wanted to be sure it was all right to include the great soul acts. They were a huge presence on Top 40 radio in the ’60’s and ’70’s, and you really can’t talk about rock without including them.

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