Monday 14 December 2009

SUPREMES - I HEAR A SYMPHONY (MOTOWN 1966) Jap mastering cardboard sleeve




The Supremes enjoyed a successful run of hits in 1964 - 1965, and their producers Holland–Dozier–Holland did their best to keep turning the hits out. In mid-1965, the producers came to realize they had fallen into a rut when the Supremes' "Nothing But Heartaches" failed to make it to the Top Ten, missing it by just one position and breaking the string of number-one Supremes hits initiated with "Where Did Our Love Go." Motown chief Berry Gordy was displeased with the performance of "Nothing But Heartaches," and circulated a memo around the Motown offices that read as follows:
"We will release nothing less than Top Ten product on any artist; and because the Supremes' world-wide acceptance is greater than the other artists, on them we will only release number-one records."
Holland-Dozier-Holland therefore set about breaking their formula and trying something new. The result was "I Hear a Symphony," a song with a more complex musical structure than previous Supremes releases. "Symphony" was released as a single in place of another Holland-Dozier-Holland Supremes song, "Mother Dear", which had been recorded in the same style as their earlier hits.
"I Hear a Symphony", later issued on an album of the same name, became the Supremes' sixth number-one hit in the United States. After the number-five hit "My World Is Empty Without You" and the number-nine hit "Love Is Like an Itching in My Heart," the Supremes began a run of four more number-one hits: "You Can't Hurry Love," "You Keep Me Hangin' On," "Love Is Here and Now You're Gone," and "The Happening." The group performed the hit song on The Mike Douglas Show on November 3, 1965.
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"I Hear a Symphony" was the number-one song on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart for two weeks from November 14, 1965, to November 27, 1965, becoming the group's sixth number-one single. In the UK, "I Hear a Symphony" made it to number fifty, and then dropped off the chart for two weeks before re-entering at number thirty-nine...
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10 comments:

Anonymous said...

i own the dusty vinyl and cd copy of this classic Supremes but i hope this japanese remaster will sound amazing.
a very special music blog with all these japanese remastered treasures !! Great collection !! and they are in Japanese papersleeves !!!!!
just the scanning itself is enjoyable enough !
thank you so much !!!!!

Gerard said...

Thanks for the Supremes

Georgie Hirezola said...

thanks guys
Georgie++++++

Bill said...

Great to get the chance to see the extensive Japanese releases and get a chance to hear them! Great blog,thank you for sharing.Happy Christmas!

woody said...

What great blog you have here!!
I was in the Small Town Pleasures and is also fantastic.

Thanks for this nice Supremes, Clarence Carter, Messengers Incorporated and the all others good albuns that I found in Small Town Pleasures.

Best wishes,
WOODY

hooch said...

thank you!

Gyro1966 said...

Great blog, thanks.

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Midnite Passions said...

Big Thanks for this one.