Love Child is a 1968 album recorded by Diana Ross & the Supremes for the Motown label. The LP was the group's first studio LP (excepting covers and tribute albums) not to include any songs written or produced by any member of the Holland-Dozier-Holland production team, who had previously overseen most of the Supremes' releases.
Several different producers and production teams worked on the Love Child LP. Nickolas Ashford & Valerie Simpson, the pr...
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Love Child is a 1968 album recorded by Diana Ross & the Supremes for the Motown label. The LP was the group's first studio LP (excepting covers and tribute albums) not to include any songs written or produced by any member of the Holland-Dozier-Holland production team, who had previously overseen most of the Supremes' releases.
Several different producers and production teams worked on the Love Child LP. Nickolas Ashford & Valerie Simpson, the production team behind the Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell hit singles, wrote and produced the album's first single, "Some Things You Never Get Used To". The single peaked at number 30 on the Billboard Hot 100, the Supremes' weakest chart showing since 1963. Wanting to improve the group's waning sales, Motown CEO Berry Gordy, Jr. assembled a production team he termed "The Clan" (Frank Wilson, Deke Richards, Henry Cosby, R. Dean Taylor, and Gordy himself) to create a hit single for The Supremes. The result was "Love Child", which returned the...
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