The Supremes at a Tokyo press convention in August 1966. Photo: Koh Hasebe/Shinko Music/Getty Images
With the towering musical and cultural achievements of the Supremes having fun with renewed celebration throughout Black History Month and after their current Lifetime Achievement Award on the Grammys, the Motown superstars are additionally newly highlighted in one among their many Ed Sullivan Show appearances.
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The endlessly glamorous trio of Diana Ross, Mary Wilson, and Florence Ballard are featured in a clip that’s simply been remastered for the huge archive of the famed selection collection. The Supremes are seen within the September 25, 1966 version performing a medley that mixes their hit “I Hear A Symphony” with “Stranger In Paradise,” “Wonderful, Wonderful,” and “Everything Is Good About You.”
The three-minute clip opens with the group’s chart-topping hit of almost a 12 months earlier, Holland-Dozier-Holland’s “I Hear A Symphony.” The music grew to become their sixth No.1 on the Billboard Hot 100 with two weeks on the summit in November 1965. By the time of this Sullivan efficiency, the Supremes had loved one other bestseller with “You Can’t Hurry Love” and have been on their solution to one more with “You Keep Me Hangin’ On.”
This was the third of 4 appearances for the trio on The Ed Sullivan Show in 1966 alone, and in addition featured their separate efficiency of “You Can’t Hurry Love.” The September medley additionally included a part of “Stranger In Paradise,” identified to audiences mainly by way of the 1953 musical Kismet and credited to Robert Wright and George Forrest from the music of nineteenth century composer Alexander Borodin. It was most notably sung within the 12 months of Kismet’s arrival by Tony Bennett, and was additionally carefully related to the Four Aces, Tony Martin, Big Crosby, and numerous others.
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Sherman Edwards and Ben Raleigh’s “Wonderful, Wonderful” was first recorded by Johnny Mathis in 1956, different notable variations together with the 1963 US Top 10 take by the Tymes. “Everything Is Good About You,” the closing a part of the medley, was a music written by Eddie Holland and James Dean, the latter namesake of the well-known actor being a Motown composer whose co-writes additionally included Jimmy Ruffin’s “What Becomes of the Brokenhearted.” The Supremes reduce the Holland/Dean music for his or her February 1966 LP I Hear A Symphony.
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