MP3 of the Day

On this day in 1966, The Supremes became the first all-girl group to score a #1 album, with Supremes a Go-Go. Members Diana Ross, Mary Wilson, and Florence Ballard met as teenagers in the housing projects of Detroit. The girls started a singing group and called themselves The Primettes. The Primettes signed with Motown Records in 1961 and the label immediately changed the group's name to The Supremes. After a couple years of releasing singles that didn't do well, The Supremes scored their first hit in 1964 with "Where Did Our Love Go," which sold two million copies. Over the next few years they released a number of other hits. In 1967, Motown began billing the group as Diana Ross and the Supremes, apparently grooming Ross for a solo career. Florence Ballard, the band's original lead singer, was not pleased and she left the group. Diana Ross left The Supremes as a solo artist in 1969. With Wilson as the only original member of the group, The Supremes carried on with various other singers replacing Ballard and Ross. The Supremes continued to release albums until 1977 but never regained the popularity they enjoyed in the 1960s. Today we have the song Love Is Like An Itching In My Heart from the album Supremes a Go-Go.