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"You Can't Hurry Love" is a 1966 song originally recorded by
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on the
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label. It was released on July 25 of 1966 as the second
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from their
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'' The Supremes A' Go-Go'' ( 1966). Written and produced by Motown production team
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, the song topped the United States ''Billboard'' pop singles chart, made the UK top five, and made the top 10 in the
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. It was released and peaked in late summer and early autumn in 1966. Sixteen years later, it would become a number-one hit in the UK when
Phil Collins Philip David Charles Collins (born 30 January 1951) is an English singer, musician, songwriter, record producer and actor. He was the drummer and lead singer of the rock band Genesis and also has a career as a solo performer. Between 1982 and ...
re-recorded the song. It reached number one on the
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for two weeks beginning in January 1983 and reached number one on the US
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that same month. ''Billboard'' named the song number 19 on their list of 100 Greatest Girl Group Songs of All Time. The
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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.


History


Overview

The song, a memory of a mother's words of encouragement ("My mama said 'you can't hurry love/No you just have to wait' ") telling her daughter that with patience she will find that special someone one day, is an example of the strong influence of
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present in much of R&B and
soul music Soul music is a popular music genre that originated in the African American community throughout the United States in the late 1950s and early 1960s. It has its roots in African-American gospel music and rhythm and blues. Soul music became po ...
. "You Can't Hurry Love" 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 Dorothy Love Coates (January 30, 1928 – April 9, 2002) was an American gospel singer.
of the Original Gospel Harmonettes. The recorded version of "You Can't Hurry Love" showcases the developing sound of the Supremes, who were progressing from their earlier teen-pop into more mature themes and musical arrangements. This song and "
You Keep Me Hangin' On "You Keep Me Hangin' On" is a song written and composed by Holland–Dozier–Holland. It was first recorded in 1966 by American Motown girl group the Supremes, reaching number one on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100. American rock band Vanilla Fudge ...
" were finished together; when it came time to choose which single would be issued first, Motown's Quality Control department chose "You Can't Hurry Love." Written and produced by Motown's main production team,
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, "You Can't Hurry Love" is one of the signature Supremes songs, and also one of Motown's signature releases. ''
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'' described the single as "the group's most exciting side to date" with "top vocal" and "exceptional instrumental backing." ''
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'' said that it is a "pulsating pop-r&b rhythmic ode which contends that romance is a slow-developing game of give-and-take." The single became the Supremes' seventh number-one hit, topping the ''Billboard'' Hot 100 singles chart for two weeks, from September 4, 1966 to September 17, 1966, and reaching number one on the soul chart for two weeks. The group performed the song on the
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'' on Sunday, September 25, 1966. "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
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's permanent collection of
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. The Supremes also released a version sung in Italian: "L'amore verrà" ("Love Will Come").


Personnel

*Lead vocals by
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*Background vocals by Mary Wilson and
Florence Ballard Florence Glenda Chapman (''née'' Ballard; June 30, 1943 – February 22, 1976) was an American singer and a founding member of the Motown vocal female group the Supremes. She sang on 16 top 40 singles with the group, including ten number-o ...
*Instrumentation by
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**
Earl Van Dyke Earl Van Dyke (July 8, 1930 – September 18, 1992) was an American soul musician, most notable as the main keyboardist for Motown Records' in-house Funk Brothers band during the late 1960s and early 1970s. Career Van Dyke, who was born in Detr ...
– piano ** Robert White – guitar **
James Jamerson James Lee Jamerson (January 29, 1936 – August 2, 1983) was an American bass player. He was the uncredited bassist on most of the Motown Records hits in the 1960s and early 1970s (Motown did not list session musician credits on their releases u ...
– bass guitar **
Benny Benjamin William "Benny" Benjamin (July 25, 1925 – April 20, 1969), nicknamed Papa Zita, was an American musician, most notable as the primary drummer for the Motown Records studio band The Funk Brothers. He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall o ...
– drums **
Jack Ashford Jack Ashford (born May 18, 1934), known to his friends as Jashford, is an American musician widely known as the percussionist for Motown Records' in-house Funk Brothers band during the 1960s and early 1970s. Ashford is most famous for playing the ...
– tambourine


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Phil Collins version

The most notable cover of the song was released in November 1982 as a single by
Phil Collins Philip David Charles Collins (born 30 January 1951) is an English singer, musician, songwriter, record producer and actor. He was the drummer and lead singer of the rock band Genesis and also has a career as a solo performer. Between 1982 and ...
from his second solo album, '' Hello, I Must Be Going!'' Collins's version reached number-one on the
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for two weeks in January 1983 (becoming his first number-one solo hit in the UK Singles Chart, and peaking two positions higher than the original song did in that country), and reached number 10 in the United States (his first top 10 single in the U.S.). The single was certified gold in the UK. 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 Thursday, June 24, 1982. Collins' cover was both virtuoso, and at the same time, the most popular Collins performance effort to date, and thus considerably his breakthrough work as a solo artist. Collins said that "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.Hitmen, 1986 Part Two
''Hitmen'', 1986. reprinted at Collins's website in 2009; archived copy at archive.org. In 1983, the music video was released on the home video ''Phil Collins'' available on Video Home System (VHS) and LaserDisc (LD) which received a
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for Best Video, Short Form. The video itself was also the first track featured on the first VHS compilation of ''Now: That's What I Call Music''.


Personnel

*
Phil Collins Philip David Charles Collins (born 30 January 1951) is an English singer, musician, songwriter, record producer and actor. He was the drummer and lead singer of the rock band Genesis and also has a career as a solo performer. Between 1982 and ...
 – vocals, drums and tambourine *
Daryl Stuermer Daryl Mark Stuermer (born November 27, 1952) is an American musician, songwriter, and producer best known for playing the guitar and bass for Genesis during live shows, and lead guitar for Phil Collins during most solo tours and albums. He has ...
 – guitars *
John Giblin John Giblin, is an active session musician, contributing mainly as an acoustic and electric bass player, and spanning genres of jazz, classical, rock, folk and avant-garde music. Best known as a studio musician, recording film scores and cont ...
 – bass guitar *
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 –
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,
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and
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*Strings arranged and conducted by
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* The Mountain Fjord Orchestra – strings


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Other versions

* Phil Seymour's 1979 studio version was a KROQ favorite. An alternative version appeared on the 2017 Ace Records album “Phil Seymour ~ Prince Of Power Pop". * The song was included as the flip side of the single
Rock this Town "Rock This Town" is the second single by American rockabilly band Stray Cats, released January 30, 1981 by Arista Records in the UK, where it peaked at No. 9 on the Singles Chart. It was taken from the band's 1981 debut album, '' Stray Cats''. ...
by the American
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band
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. The record reached the top 10 in the UK and various European countries such as Ireland, France, Belgium, Germany, Finland, the Netherlands, as well as in Australia and Japan, which contributed to the popularity of the song. * The song was covered by the
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on the soundtrack to the 1999 film '' Runaway Bride''. Their version peaked at number 60 on the ''Billboard''
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chart. * In 2019, the song was covered by
Rafael de La Fuente Rafael de la Fuente (born November 11, 1986) is a Venezuelan actor and singer. He is known for his roles in the fantasy television series ''Grachi'' (2011–2013) and the soap opera reboot ''Dynasty'' (2017–present) as Sam "Sammy Jo" Jones. Hi ...
and
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in a musical episode of the television series ''
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''. * A "punk-ish" version by D.L. Byron appears on the soundtrack to the 1980 movie ''
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'' This song was covered by Melanie Safka in 1975 and release on her album “Sunsets and Other Beginnings”


See also

*
List of Hot 100 number-one singles of 1966 (U.S.) These are the ''Billboard magazine'' Hot 100 number one hits of 1966. That year, 16 acts achieved their first number one song, such as Simon & Garfunkel, Lou Christie, Nancy Sinatra, SSgt. Barry Sadler, The Young Rascals, The Mamas & the Pa ...


References


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* * {{Authority control 1966 songs 1966 singles 1982 singles The Supremes songs Billboard Hot 100 number-one singles Cashbox number-one singles RPM Top Singles number-one singles UK Singles Chart number-one singles Dutch Top 40 number-one singles Number-one singles in Germany Phil Collins songs The Chicks songs Songs written by Holland–Dozier–Holland Motown singles Virgin Records singles Atlantic Records singles Song recordings produced by Brian Holland Song recordings produced by Lamont Dozier