A KOOL Day for Music

Even though the Motown girl-group’s name was on the single, two of the original singers didnt sing a note on this number one hit from 1968.

Supremes

Love Child

The song goes into the music history books at the Supremes’ first number one single that was not written by Motown song-writing team of Brian Holland, Lamont Dozier and Eddie Holland. The trio had left Motown in a royalty dispute.

It was label cheif Berry Gordy who co-wrote this song that had more of a controversial theme for 1968. Neither founding member Mary Wilson or the recently added Cindy Birdsong, who replaced Florence Ballard, sang a note on this record.

The song proved to be more of a test-run for Gordy who had already removed ‘The’ from The Supremes, but name recognition is everything. Recorded with Motown session singers known as The Andantes that took just three weeks to reach the Top 10 on the American pop chart, which then stayed there for two weeks before being dethroned by an even bigger Motown single, Marvin Gaye’s ‘Heard It Through The Grapevine.’