I always thought the original mono version of this song a little masterpiece, perfect from start to finish - so hands off and better not try to mess with it! But this remix proves me wrong. It is indeed a vast improvement. The sound is so pristine that some details of the arrangement seem to become audible for the first time - even for me, and believe me, I heard the song a million times before! And the changes and additions are so supple and fit in so organically I probably wouldn't have notived them if I were less familiar with the original mix. The big deal for me is the emphasis on the elegant, icy string arrrangement. In those lackluster stereo mixes we get to hear most of the time, it is all buried under that detracting, meandering organ. But here it is restored to its full glory which is so essential to the dynamics of the song. So this is clearly the go-to version for me! I don't know anything about fuTuRos background, but it is obvious that here is a real musician at work! Do yourself a favour and check out his brilliant take on "Where did our love go".
Some legendary Funk Bros in the Studio. Mike Terry on Baritone Sax , Jack Ashford and Joe Massina. Suspect Van Dyke on Keys and Eddie Willis were there but couldn't see them
These three young women has so much God-given talent that through Berry Gordy and Motown they change the world of music. We have to give Miss Diana Ross, her respect because she IS the voice of the Supremes.!!! 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾 LET’S GIVE HER HER FLOWERS WHILE SHE IS STILL WITH US!!!🌹🌻🌼🪷🌷🪻💮💐
I can’t stop coming back to this mix, nearly every day. That tempo, that orchestra, the bass…all in the way you mixed and added sections. Just awesome. Maybe we need more of this music in today’s crazy world.
Very true, I think aside from the fact these singers had better voices what puts this music over the top is the band a real band with members who were masters of their instruments and it shows.
I loved Florence Ballard the first time I saw her. More in love wit beautiful sista when I heard her voice. Sad day when she left us now sadness has occurred with Mary Wilson gone.. Diana Ross and Mary Wilson had beautiful voices. There was a special glow wit Florence that captivated me.
Supremes. Greatest female group of all time. So many hits. Reflections , Someday we’ll Be Together Again. On and on. Where is the music now. Seem to have stopped in the late seventies. Mid 60s. To mid 70s. Greatest music ever.
@@xozeluiz6301 WHAT??? Gorgeous song from another generation. And you have nothing better to do than spout hateful crap about our govt? What Police State? Are you high? We are the free-est country to EVER exist. READ SOME HISTORY, then come back and express your ignorant opinions.....
@@Rikolus8383 I agree with RIK. Nothing to do with gov. My brother and I talk about this all the time. It seems as though the well is running dry on the writing and creating of great quality music. So many young people today into classic rock and solid gold oldies from the late 50' 60's and 70's. There truly is very little that can compare to the magnitude of quality and feeling that came from those days. It's sad when you think of what we have to settle for today...
Like the other comment by the gentlemen from Detroit, I am a 62 year old black male from the inner city of Cleveland, and watching this video brought many tears to my eyes. Each vocalist and all of the musicians were consummate professionals. No one was bored or anything else. Diana, Florence and Mary all sang like angel's. Thank you for compiling this incredible artistic masterpiece.
I am the same age as you and I recall listening to these ladies first in 1964 on my families car radio. I remember my Mom telling us kids that these girl singers reminded her of the "Andrews sisters" from her era, but that this new group had a distinctive sound. Soon we were all singing and humming along with their beautiful harmonies. Mom and I were instantly hooked, and we shared that all of our lives until she died 8 years ago. I am white, but these singers broke the color barrier in the 1960's and everyone everywhere loved them!
Amen! It's a shame that most youth today who worship artists like Beyoncé, Cardi B & Drake, don't have a clue what Motown was: Beautiful singers with good voices, writers & horns and strings to back them up. I truly miss the Motown era. Thank god we have our oldies & memories to stay embedded in our minds & hearts.
Michelle James I agree with you 10000000000000000% I can listen and watch this timeless jeweled classic a Gazillion times over:)! Real true music like this never grows old and never dies:)
You can see how fragile Florence was...a man did her in... nothing's changed...post-partum depression..man left her out of Jealousy.drinking...death....where are her royalties?
RIP Mary. You’re contributions will never be forgotten. They will be cherished forever. I know I will cherish them. I listen everyday. And always will. Thank you.
Perdon por bajarte de la nube, no sería éxito, no tiene voces falsas ni groserías y menos drogadicción o chicas semidesnudas moviendo el ass, así que solo sería una canción más ante el aplastante género urbano...
Have seen Diana Ross several times & she was always great & Mary Wilson gave GREAT Concerts too when she was alive, saw her several times too... She would do this hit too in her own style,, amazing.
@@SWDetboy Diana, Mary & Florence I rank as the greatest female group in music history. There have been so many wonderful female groups/bands but for me personally 'The Supremes' rank the greatest of all time...
The yearning for ones love. The loss of love through death. The writers composers, the singers the musicians all together articulate the sadness we feel when we were abandoned or we loss a love one through death. This song is deep. I love the Motown sound!
The first record I ever owned. My mom bought it for me. Now I listen to it in 2020, and I'm stunned by the beauty of the arrangement and the yearning in the vocals.
They were all beautiful. Florence and Mary definitely carried in the beauty department. I believe their beauty as a collective was a key ingredient to their success.
As amazing now as it was back then. Loved them since I was a girl of 13 and now 68, so appreciative that we had the wonderfully talented Supremes in our lives. Love from, surely, ALL England.
May both Mary & Florence both forever “Rest in Peace!” 70’s is still “young”, by today’s standards, with so people living into their 90’s & 100’s easily! Mary still died young & of course poor Florence passed away “truly young”, in her 30’s. Mary was a beautiful soul & both of these women are sorely missed! This group brought so much joy to all of our lives & each woman in this group was equally important to the success of this phenomenal group! This wasn’t just a “girl group” to me but was “THE GIRL GROUP!!!” Loved The Supremes so much!!!!♥️
Holland-Dozier-Holland and The Funk Brothers equals music that CAN'T be touched !!! EVER !!! The music and lyrics from you ALL make my life complete !!! It's great to see Brian Holland and Lamont Dozier in this video . They are both getting with it in the background !!! Hitsville , USA Forever !!!
Her voice is so beautiful, literally she is one of the all time greats. She is a member of "The Untouchables" Marvin Gaye and Sinatra are in that group.
Performers don't sing like this anymore. Most of them don't even sing. These were the golden days of pop and rock with melodies, harmonies, diction, superb arrangements, and bands like the Funk Brothers. This is the music of my youth, and I still love it. Though a bygone era, I'm grateful to fuTuRo and others who have kept it alive on You Tube. A huge thanks to all of them.
"Performers don't sing like this anymore." Right. Like Ross had a spectacular voice. She didn't. Streisand, Garland, Lena Horne, Whitney Houston, and TODAY'S Lady Gaga were/are incomparably more gifted. Ross was a great beauty - who sang pleasantly. And that's the truth.
My world is empty without you, babe My world is empty without you, babe And as I go my way alone I find it hard for me to carry on I need your strenght I need your tender touch I need the love, my dear I miss so much My world is empty without you, baby My world is empty without you, baby From this old world I try to hide my face From this loneliness There's no hiding place Inside this cold and empty house I dwell In darkness with memories I know so well I need love know More then before I can hardly Carry on anymore My world is emty without you, babe Without you, babe (My world is emty) without you, babe My mind and soul Have felt like this Since love between us No more exist And each time that darkness falls It finds me alone With these four walls My world is emty without you, babe
My World Is Empty Without You, babe. My World Is Empty Without You, babe. And as I go my way alone, I find it hard for me to carry on. I need your strength, I need your tender touch I need the love, my dear, I miss so much. My World Is Empty Without You, babe. My World Is Empty Without You, babe. From this old world I try to hide my face, But from this loneliness there's no hiding place. Inside this cold and empty house I dwell, in darkness with memories I know so well. I need your love more than before, I can hardly carry on anymore. My World Is Empty Without You, babe, without you babe, without you babe, My mind and soul have felt like this, Since love between us no more exist. And each time that darkness falls, if finds me alone with these four walls. My World Is Empty Without You, babe. My World Is Empty Without You, babe.
Just wanted to say a huge thanks to all who have commented so positively on my mix . I am really lousy at this social media thing so please forgive me if i haven't replied to some of the specific questions about this and my other mixes. I will endeavour to be give this a bit more effort!
You did an amazing fantastic fabulous job enhancing and recreating the sounds, I use cubase 5 and i imagine this took some time to make and it sounds so perfect! You are a very talented and dedicated programmer obviously.
+rosario diaz I use Cubase too . Been Steinberg since Pro 24 and an Atari . Tx for the positive comments and compliments, however I hate the word programmer as I played the instruments on this, whether Gtr, Bass or the virtual horns and Strings . No programming involved :)
Me my friends, The Lyrics on this cut are so deep,I agree 100. Background, is dope, Still today when I need a ride from my condition, and loves that have passed On Wow ,M. Hall RIP FLO. .Darrell Spates , Allison Young. The Smiles if Joy for the memories, that's what music like this gave us, WJN III.
My Innate affinity for music cast in a minor key made this piece a shoo-in for me. Diana Ross’ perfect phrasing and vocal inflections and nuances just sends it over the top. There is also that delicious melancholic flavor throughout drawing you to a place where you’d just as soon remain indefinitely. I was sixteen when this record was released and was immediately smitten by its’ almost forlorn sense of love forever gone and lost. Excellent example of why the Motown sound was so superlative! This is just sooooooooo good! Paul W. Green
I remember hearing songs like this when I was a kid and her voice would touch my heart so much. Hearing the way she would sing these songs always triggered my emotions.
Seeing Diana was one of the most incredible moments in my life. The feelings and emotions inside were incredibly overwhelming a moment in my life I will never ever forget ♥️ The deep intro to this track is absolutely Fantastic .
My Favorite Surpeme song. .....when my Mom Past away this song was stuck in my mind, as a child i remembered Mom n Dad playing this and Dancing to it at our Family Parties....😇
Here it is August 2021 and I'm watching this to her they seem so sad. Two of the three have left us and the only one left is Diana which can also make you sad knowing that you grew up to this music in this group in particular realizing that everyone gets old and eventually dies. Instead I say let's celebrate this music and pass it down to younger generations and generations yet to come because this with some absolutely magical music.
all of them were LEAD VOCALISTS...all of 'em. You dont find that often at all in that 'girl group community'. And 3 lead singers, makes for some attention-getting records. This tune has always stood out because you have, what was then, Diana's soprano, floating above the thick altos of Mary & Florence. And their voice chemistry, was just magic.
Unbelievable talent, extraordinarily beautiful women, exceptional orchestration. Last year i visited Detroit and went to the MoTown museum and had the immense privilege of actually standing in this production studio - it was as awesome as standing on the Great Wall of China - yes absolutely true, my heart was filled with love for all these fantastic sweethearts !
I am glad that I was a kid in the 60's listening to all my big sister's records. Wow! they had to have talent and to sing with an orchestra unlike some groups today. Awesome! The Supreme's one of the top girl groups.
Ms. Ross put all her talent into this song!Florence & Mary also contributed there vocaltalents! I miss hearing Florence Ballard backgroundvocals! These ladies earned all there props! Just listen'to the lyrics of all there tracks!Bernard Hendricks
This is one of very few early-era Supremes songs composed entirely in a minor key. But that, and the awesome drum fills of Benny Benjamin of Motown's renowned studio band the Funk Brothers, make this punchy tune stand out!
@Damo Trent If you'd actually ever seen the Supremes Live - as I did, four times, in different iterations - you'd know that they were never boring. None of them - and certainly not Mary and Flo, who were both lively and funny on stage.
very, very few Motown songs sound dated now other than some of the label's initial output before they found their trademark "sound of young America" with the Funk Brothers and their songwriting teams. The Supremes put out at least 5 or 6 singles that bombed or semi-bombed before the group struck gold. I only find one of those singles virtually unlistenable (the novelty-song-like "Buttered Popcorn"). My ears perked up early on with The Supremes as a kid in the Midwest soon as they were doing records like "Let Me Go the Right Way", "Run, Run, Run", and "When the Lovelight Starts Shining" (which should've been a Top 5 hit).
