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I Thought I Could Make U Love Me Again

1968 single past Diana Ross & the Supremes and The Temptations

"I'm Gonna Make Y'all Love Me"
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US single picture sleeve
Single by Diana Ross & the Supremes and The Temptations
from the album Diana Ross & the Supremes Join The Temptations
B-side "A Identify in the Sun"
Released Nov 21, 1968
Recorded May 3, May 18, May 31, June 20, Baronial 26, September 4 and September 13, 1968
Studio Hitsville United states (Studios A & B)
Genre Soul, pop
Length 3:08
Label Motown
M 1137
Songwriter(due south) Gamble and Huff
Jerry Ross
Producer(southward) Frank Wilson
Nickolas Ashford
Diana Ross & the Supremes singles chronology
"Love Child"
(1968) 		"I'm Gonna Make You Beloved Me"
(1968) 		"I'm Livin' in Shame"
(1969)
The Temptations singles chronology
"Cloud Nine"
(1968) 		"I'm Gonna Make Y'all Love Me"
(1968) 		"Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer"
(1968)
Diana Ross & the Supremes Join The Temptations track listing

11 tracks

Side one
  1. "Try It Baby"
  2. "I Second That Emotion"
  3. "Ain't No Mountain High Enough"
  4. "I'm Gonna Make Y'all Honey Me"
  5. "This Guy's in Love with Yous"
  6. "Funky Broadway"
Side two
  2. "I'll Try Something New"
  3. "A Place in the Dominicus"
  4. "Sugariness Inspiration"
  5. "Then"
  6. "The Impossible Dream"

"I'm Gonna Brand You Love Me" is a soul song most popularly released as a joint single performed by Diana Ross & the Supremes and The Temptations for the Motown label. This version peaked for two weeks at #2 on the Hot 100 in the United States, selling 900,000 copies in its starting time two weeks,[i] and at #iii on the Britain Singles Chart in January 1969.

Written by Gamble and Huff and Jerry Ross,[two] it was originally a top twenty R&B hit for Dee Dee Warwick in 1966 (U.S. #88 Popular). Madeline Bell's comprehend peaked at #26 on the Hot 100 on 23 March 1968.

Early versions [edit]

About versions of the song credit the songwriting to Jerry Ross and Kenny Gamble, who were the only two writers named on original record labels. Some recordings as well credit Jerry Williams as a third author, although BMI and some other sources credit Leon Huff, rather than Williams.

"I'thou Gonna Make Y'all Honey Me" was released as a single by Dee Dee Warwick on Mercury Records as the follow-up to her Tiptop Ten R&B hit "I Want to Be With You"; co-writer Jerry Ross produced the rail whose organisation was by Jimmy Wisner while Nickolas Ashford and Valerie Simpson provided background vocals.[3] This single - whose B-side is the primeval known recorded version of "Yours Until Tomorrow" by Gerry Goffin and Carole King - reached #13 R&B crossing over to #88 Pop in December 1966.

Scoring two consecutive Meridian xx R&B hits gave Warwick sufficient cachet for her first album release entitled I Desire to Be With You/I'thousand Gonna Make You Love Me. Although Warwick had stronger nautical chart showings than "I'm Gonna Make You Love Me", the song became her all-time-known hit by virtue of the Supremes/Temptations remake. "I'm Gonna Brand You Love Me" was the song Warwick performed at the 1999 Rhythm and Blues Foundation awards ceremony when she received a Pioneer Award.

Jerry Ross overall produced x recordings of "I'm Gonna Make You Dear Me":[3] these included a version on Jerry Butler'south 1967 Soul Artistry album and another by Jay & the Techniques which was featured on the 1968 album release Beloved, Lost & Found. Ashford & Simpson sang background on all the versions of the song Ross produced with the Jay & the Techniques version too featuring Melba Moore.

1968 [edit]

"I'm Gonna Make You lot Honey Me" was offered to Dusty Springfield who recorded for Philips Records, the UK equivalent of Mercury Records. Springfield passed the vocal on to Madeline Bell, her friend and regular groundwork vocalist. Springfield sang backup vocals on Bell'due south version, which was featured on Bong's 1967 Philips anthology release Bong's a Poppin'.

According to Bong "nothing happened with [the album] and the tapes were sent over to America and this one guy took a shine to 'I'm Gonna Make You Love Me'. He printed up 10,000 copies and he sent them round the radio stations and they started playing it. I got a call from Philips in London to say that I had a record moving up the US charts and I had to get to America to promote it. Information technology got to No.26 [and #32 R&B/ April 1968] and it was not bad to go dorsum to my domicile boondocks (Newark, New Jersey) with a record in the charts. I was and then happy to go abode a success."[4]

The US single of Bell's "I'thousand Gonna Make Y'all Love Me" featured "Picture Me Gone" past Chip Taylor and Al Gorgoni equally the B-side: originally issued on the Modernistic label information technology had its wide release with the Philips logo. Bell's United states of america success led Philips to release her single in the United kingdom - there the B-side was "I'm Gonna Go out You" a limerick past Bell, Springfield and Lesley Duncan - where it failed to nautical chart. An I'm Gonna Make You lot Love Me anthology became Bell'due south just total-length release to announced on a major chart reaching #46 on the US R&B album chart.

The summer of 1968 saw the release of another version of "I'm Gonna Make You Dearest Me" every bit a single, this one on Buck Concept by Aesop'southward Fables a Long Isle-based blues/rock unit of measurement led by Sonny Bottari. Although this version failed to achieve the national charts, it became the tertiary version of "I'm Gonna Brand You Honey Me" - after Warwick and Bong's - to receive airplay in Detroit inside the menstruum of a twelvemonth and a half: within six months the Motown version brought the full to four.[five] [vi] [vii] [8]

Motown version [edit]

"I'grand Gonna Make Yous Love Me" was the lead single, released in Nov 1968, from the duets album Diana Ross & the Supremes Join The Temptations; the track was produced by Frank Wilson along with Nickolas Ashford who had sung groundwork on Dee Dee Warwick'southward rail and the other versions produced by Jerry Ross. Diana Ross and Eddie Kendricks shared lead vocals, although Otis Williams worked with Ross during a spoken interlude which was original to this version of the song.

Ross & the Supremes and the Temptations performed several of the songs from their joint anthology on their headlining TCB idiot box special which aired in Dec 1968 and it was originally planned that their rendition of "The Incommunicable Dream", the special's climactic operation, exist their joint album's lead single. However radio stations began playing the "I'g Gonna Brand You Beloved Me" runway off their advance copies of Diana Ross & the Supremes Join The Temptations compelling Motown to make "I'm Gonna Make Y'all Dearest Me" the single release even though it was not performed on TCB.[3] Indeed, the Ross/Supremes & Temptations version was never to exist performed alive (the Temptations did perform "I'm Gonna Make You Beloved Me" on The Ed Sullivan Show, Diana Ross and The Supremes performed the song which was recorded during their goodbye performance in Las Vegas in 1970 and Diana Ross performed the vocal on The Hollywood Palace equally a duet with Stevie Wonder).

"I'm Gonna Brand You Dearest Me" reached #2 on both the Billboard Hot 100 and its R&B charts in January 1969: the Tape World 100 Top Pops ranked "I'm Gonna Make You Dearest Me" at #1 for the three weeks of 4 January to 18 Jan 1969[9] while Cash Box ranked the unmarried #ane on its nautical chart for 25 January 1969.[ten] In the UK, the single peaked at number 3 in the Top fifty, spending vi weeks in the Tiptop ten.[11]

Track listing [edit]

  • 7" Unmarried (21 Nov 1968) (Due north America/United Kingdom/Netherlands/Sweden)
  1. "I'm Gonna Make You Love Me" – two:56
  2. "A Identify in the Sun" – 4:20

Personnel [edit]

  • Lead vocals by Diana Ross and Eddie Kendricks
  • Spoken interlude by Diana Ross and Otis Williams
  • Groundwork vocals past Mary Wilson, Cindy Birdsong, Eddie Kendricks, Otis Williams, Melvin Franklin, Paul Williams, and Dennis Edwards
  • Produced by Frank Wilson and Nickolas Ashford
  • Instrumentation by The Funk Brothers and the Detroit Symphony Orchestra

Charts [edit]

Certifications [edit]

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External links [edit]

  • Listing of cover versions of "I'm Gonna Make Yous Dearest Me" at SecondHandSongs.com
  • Diana Ross & The Supremes and The Temptations - I'g Gonna Make You Love Me on YouTube

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Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I%27m_Gonna_Make_You_Love_Me