![This new release is a 51-track, 2-CD Expanded Edition of The Supremes’ tenth studio album, the chart-topping The Supremes Sing Holland-Dozier-Holland. The collection includes 27 tracks that are heard here […]](http://www.obsessed-with-music.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/Screen-Shot-2018-07-01-at-10.00.18-PM-620x250.png "The Supremes Classic Album Expanded Edition Keeps Them Hanging On")
This new release is a 51-track, 2-CD Expanded Edition of The Supremes’ tenth studio album, the chart-topping The Supremes Sing Holland-Dozier-Holland. The collection includes 27 tracks that are heard here for the first time via a number of updated mixes and alternate versions, as well as live performances captured at the Copacabana nightclub in New York City in May 1967, the last recorded performance of the original trio: Diana Ross, Mary Wilson and Florence Ballard.
The Supremes Sing Holland-Dozier-Holland, originally released in January 1967, further cemented the group’s chart prowess and vocal harmonizing skills. Inspired by the production team who along with the group had come to define the “Motown Sound” – producers Brian Holland and Lamont Dozier and lyricist Edward Holland Jr. – spawned a pair of No. 1 singles, “You Keep Me Hangin’ On” and “Love Is Here and Now You’re Gone.” The LP went to No. 1 on the Billboard R&B Albums Chart, their fourth album to do so up to that point, while peaking at no. 6 Pop.
The expanded The Supremes Sing Holland-Dozier-Holland includes the original mono album on CD for the first time and the stereo version newly remastered, plus several rare and new mixes created exclusively for this expanded edition, featuring alternate versions and alternate mixes of the hits. Among them: the original film version of the No. 1 hit “The Happening,” which was re-cut for the single version and is now a revised, correct mix and edit of the version that appeared in The Supremes box set; a version of “Love Is Here and Now You’re Gone” with a vocal previously available only on a Japanese Greatest Hits release; a new mix of “You’re Gone (But Always In My Heart)” that includes previously muted strings; and a rare live concert from the Copacabana in New York, in May 1967, one of the last performances of the group with Florence Ballard. This show, two years on from the Supremes album Live at the Copa, is a blend of Supremes hits and show tunes, the epitome of Motown founder Berry Gordy’s vision for his Detroit-based company. Also included in the package are two booklets: one, with 32 pages, has a new essay, detailed track annotations, a Supremes timeline, a new interview with Lamont Dozier, and rare and never-before-seen photographs. The other, with 24 pages, recreates The Supremes’ 1967 souvenir tour program.
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Track listing:
Disc 1
Original Mono (1-12) and Stereo (13-24) LPs
01./13. You Keep Me Hangin’ On
02./14. You’re Gone (But Always In My Heart)
03./15. Love Is Here And Now You’re Gone
04./16. Mother You, Smother You
05./17. I Guess I’ll Always Love You
06./18. I’ll Turn To Stone
07./19. It’s The Same Old Song
08./20. Going Down For The Third Time
09./21. Love Is In Our Hearts
10./22. Remove This Doubt
11./23. There’s No Stopping Us Now
12./24. (Love Is Like A) Heat Wave
Bonus Tracks
25. The Happening (extended hit mix)
26. All I Know About You (extended mix)
27. Love Is Here And Now You’re Gone (Version 3)
28. We Couldn’t Get Along Without You (extended mix)
29. You Keep Me Hangin’ On (extended “cool” alternate)
Disc 2
01. You Can’t Hurry Love (extended alternate)
02. The Happening (film versions)
03. Love Is Here And Now You’re Gone (version 1)
04. You’re Gone (But Always In My Heart) (strings mix)
05. I Guess I’ll Always Love You (extended mix)
06. Going Down For The Third Time (extended mix)
07. Remove This Doubt (extended mix)
Live At The Copa May 1967
08. Put On A Happy Face
09. Medley: Stop! In The Name Of Love/Come See About Me/My World Is Empty Without You/Baby Love
10. My Favorite Things
11. You Keep Me Hangin’ On
12. The Lady Is A Tramp/Let’s Get Away From It All
13. I Hear A Symphony
14. From This Moment On
15. Queen Of The House
16. Love Is Here And Now You’re Gone
17. Somewhere
18. You Can’t Hurry Love
19. Medley: Thoroughly Modern Millie/Second Hand Rose/Mame
20. Group Introductions
21. You’re Nobody Til Somebody Loves You
22. The Happening
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