ON THIS DATE (46 YEARS AGO) September 30, 1968 - Diana Ross And The Supremes: Love Child b/w Will This Be The Day (Motown M 1135) 45 single is released in the US. Love Child is a 1968 song released by Diana Ross & the Supremes. The first single and title track from their album Love Child, it became the Supremes 11th #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 pop chart for two weeks, from November 30, 1968 through December 14, 1968. It is also notable for its then-controversial subject matter of illegitimacy. The Supremes debuted the song on the season premiere of the CBS variety program The Ed Sullivan Show on Sunday, September 29, 1968. In 1967, Diana Ross & the Supremes, having dropped Florence Ballard, acquired new member Cindy Birdsong, added Ross name to the billing. Following this string of changes, the Supremes had mixed success on the pop charts. Reflections peaked at number 2 on the Billboard pop charts and In and out of Love peaked at 9, but the groups next two singles did not make the pop top twenty. This prompted Motown label chief Berry Gordy to hold a special meeting in a room at the Pontchartrain Hotel in Detroit, which was attended by a team of writers and producers at the label, including R. Dean Taylor, Frank Wilson, Pam Sawyer, Deke Richards, and Henry Cosby. The group, who named themselves The Clan, set to work on a hit single for Diana Ross & the Supremes. Instead of composing another love-based song, the team decided to craft a tune about a woman who is asking her boyfriend not to pressure her into sleeping with him, for fear they would conceive a love child. The woman, portrayed on the record by Diana Ross, is herself a love child, and, besides not having a father at home, had to endure wearing rags to school and growing up in an old, cold, run-down tenement slum. The background vocals echo this sentiment, asking the boyfriend to please wait/wait wont you wait now/hold on/wait/just a little bit longer. As was nearly always the case on records released under the Diana Ross & the Supremes name, Supremes members Mary Wilson and Cindy Birdsong do not perform on the record; Motown session singers The Andantes performed the background vocals. All lead vocals were by Diana Ross, who would leave the group in a year for a solo career. Diana Ross
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