You Can't Hurry Love

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"You Can't Hurry Love" is a song originally recorded by the Supremes on the Motown label. It was released on July 25, 1966 as the second single from their studio album The Supremes A' Go-Go.

Written and produced by Motown production team Holland–Dozier–Holland, the song topped the US Billboard Hot 100, made the top five in the UK, and top 10 in Australia. It was released and peaked in late summer and early autumn in 1966.<ref>Template:Cite magazine</ref> Sixteen years later, Phil Collins re-recorded the song for his album Hello, I Must Be Going!. When released as a single it became a number one hit in the UK, staying there for two weeks beginning in January 1983,<ref name="British Hit Singles & Albums">Template:Cite book</ref> and reached number 10 on the US Billboard Hot 100 a month later.

Billboard named the song number 19 on their list of 100 Greatest Girl Group Songs of All Time.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> The BBC ranked "You Can't Hurry Love" at number 16 on The Top 100 Digital Motown Chart, which is based solely on all time UK downloads and streams of Motown releases.<ref name="Top 100 Digital Motown UK">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

History

Overview

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Billboard advertisement, August 13, 1966

The song "You Can't Hurry Love", a memory of a mother's words ("My mama said 'you can't hurry love/No you just have to waitTemplate:'")<ref name=pc50>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> telling her daughter that with patience she will find that special someone one day, was inspired by and partially based upon "(You Can't Hurry God) He's Right on Time" ("You can't hurry God/you just have to wait/Trust and give him time/no matter how long it takes"), a 1950s gospel song written by Dorothy Love Coates of the Original Gospel Harmonettes.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Written and produced by Motown's main production team, Holland–Dozier–Holland, "You Can't Hurry Love" is one of the signature Supremes songs, and also one of Motown's signature releases. Billboard described the single as "the group's most exciting side to date" with "top vocal" and "exceptional instrumental backing."<ref name=bb>Template:Cite news</ref> Cash Box said that it is a "pulsating pop-r&b rhythmic ode which contends that romance is a slow-developing game of give-and-take."<ref name=cb>Template:Cite magazine</ref> Record World called it "a wonderful and happy sounding tune, chirped by the Supremes, with bells and banjos."<ref>Template:Cite magazine</ref>

The single was the Supremes' seventh number-one hit,<ref>Bronson, Fred: The Billboard Book of Number 1 Hits, page 207. Billboard Books, 2003.</ref> topping the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart for two weeks, from September 4 to September 17, 1966, and reaching number one on the soul chart for two weeks. The group performed the song on the CBS variety program The Ed Sullivan Show on Sunday, September 25, 1966.<ref>Template:Cite episode</ref>

"You Can't Hurry Love" was the second single from the Supremes' album The Supremes A' Go-Go. It reached the number one position on the Billboard Hot 100 pop chart in the United States, and number three in the United Kingdom. The Supremes' version of the song is honored by inclusion in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's permanent collection of 500 Songs that Shaped Rock and Roll.

The Supremes also released a version sung in Italian: "L'amore verrà" ("Love Will Come").

Personnel

• Lead vocals by Diana Ross
• Background vocals by Mary Wilson and Marlene Barrow<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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• Instrumentation by the Funk Brothers<ref>The Complete Motown Singles Vol. 6: 1966 [liner notes]. New York: Hip-O Select/Motown/Universal Records</ref>
  • Earl Van Dyke – piano
  • Robert White – guitar
  • James Jamerson – bass guitar
  • Benny Benjamin – drums
  • Jack Ashford – tambourine
• Written by Holland-Dozier-Holland

Chart performance

Weekly charts

Chart (1966)	Peak position
Australia (Billboard)<ref name="Billboard 15 October 1966">Template:Cite magazine</ref>	9
Australia (Go-Set)<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>	6
Australia (Kent Music Report)<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>	10
Canada (Billboard)<ref name="Billboard 15 October 1966"/>	1
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Singapore (Billboard)<ref name="Billboard 8 October 1966">Template:Cite magazine</ref>	3
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UK R&B (Record Mirror)<ref>Template:Cite magazine</ref>	1
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US Cashbox Top 100<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>	1
US Cashbox R&B<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}Template:Dead link</ref>	1
US Record World 100 Top Pops<ref>Template:Cite magazine</ref>	1
US Record World Top 50 R&B<ref>Template:Cite magazine</ref>	1

Year-end charts

Chart (1966)	Rank
Australia (Kent Music Report)<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>	90
Japan Foreign Hits (Billboard)<ref>Template:Cite magazine</ref>	6
UK Singles (OCC)<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>	55
US Billboard Hot 100<ref>Template:Cite magazine</ref>	13
US Cashbox Top 100<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}Template:Dead link</ref>	5
US Cashbox R&B<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>	21

Phil Collins version

Phil Collins' cover of the song was released in October 1982 as a single from his second solo album, Hello, I Must Be Going!. Collins' version became his first number one on the UK singles chart for two weeks in January 1983,<ref name="British Hit Singles & Albums" /> peaking two positions higher than the original song did in the country, and reached number 10 in the United States (his first top 10 single in the US).<ref name=Dean>Template:Cite book</ref> The single was certified gold in the UK.<ref name=bpi /> The song spent a week at number one in Ireland in January 1983.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> The orchestral strings on this track were recorded in Studio 1 at CBS Recording Studios, London W1 by recording engineer Mike Ross-Trevor (assisted by Richard Hollywood) on the evening of June 24, 1982.

Collins said: "The idea of doing 'Can't Hurry Love' was to see if Hugh Padgham and I could duplicate that Sixties sound. It's very difficult today because most recording facilities are so much more sophisticated than they were back then. It's therefore hard to make the drums sound as rough as they did on the original. That's what we were going after, a remake, not an interpretation, but a remake."<ref name="philcollins.co.uk">Hitmen, 1986 Part Two, Hitmen, 1986. reprinted at Collins's website in 2009; archived copy at archive.org.</ref>

In 1983, the music video was released on the home video Phil Collins, available on VHS and LaserDisc, which received a Grammy nomination for Best Video, Short Form at the 27th Annual Grammy Awards.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> The song itself was also the first track featured on the first release of the Now That's What I Call Music! compilation series.

Personnel

• Phil Collins – vocals, drums and tambourine
• Daryl Stuermer – guitars
• John Giblin – bass guitar
• J. Peter Robinson – piano, glockenspiel and vibraphone
• Strings arranged and conducted by Martyn Ford
• The Mountain Fjord Orchestra – strings

Chart performance

Weekly charts

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Chart (1982–1983)	Peak position
Australia (Kent Music Report)<ref name="Kent">Template:Cite book</ref>	3
Austrian Singles Chart<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>	3
Belgium (Flanders) (Ultratop)<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>	1
Canada (CHUM)<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>	1
Dutch Top 40<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>	1
French Singles Chart<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>	13
Germany (Media Control Charts)<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>	3
Irish Singles Chart<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>	1
New Zealand Singles Chart<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>	9
South Africa (Springbok)<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>	9
Spain (AFYVE)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>	11
Swedish Singles Chart<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>	6
Swiss Singles Chart<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>	3
UK Singles (OCC)<ref name="British Hit Singles & Albums" />	1
UK Airplay (Record Business)<ref>Template:Cite magazine</ref>	1
U.S. Billboard Hot 100<ref>Template:Cite magazine</ref>	10
U.S. Billboard Adult Contemporary<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>	9

Year-end charts

Chart (1982)	Rank
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Other notable cover versions

• The song was covered by the Dixie Chicks on the soundtrack to the 1999 film Runaway Bride. Their version peaked at number 60 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart.<ref name="whitburn2013">Template:Cite book</ref>

See also

• List of Billboard Hot 100 number ones of 1966

External links

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