You Can't Hurry Love

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Singles
You Can't Hurry Love
  UK 3 09/14/1966 (12 weeks)
  US 1Template: Infobox chart placements / maintenance / NR1 link 08/13/1966 (13 weeks)

You Can't Hurry Love is a pop song by the Holland-Dozier-Holland producer team from 1966, which first became famous for its interpretation of the Supremes . The 1982 version by Phil Collins was as successful as the original. The text is based on the wisdom of mothers who explain to their children that love cannot be forced.

Original version from the Supremes

The song was recorded on July 11, 1966 by the Supremes; Diana Ross sang lead vocals . The first recording is 2:47 minutes long and appeared on July 25, 1966 on the album The Supremes A Go-Go produced by Brian Holland and Lamont Dozier . The song was released as a second single by Motown Records . The recording of the Supremes was a number one hit in the United States from September 4 to 17, 1966 . This hit supported the band's career success.

Cover version by Phil Collins

Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Singles
You Can't Hurry Love
  DE 3 January 17, 1983 (21 weeks)
  AT 3 02/01/1983 (14 weeks)
  CH 3 02/20/1983 (10 weeks)
  UK 1 December 04, 1982 (16 weeks)
  US 10 11/06/1982 (21 weeks)

In 1982 Phil Collins re-recorded the classic. Its version was released worldwide in October 1982 and became a number one hit in the UK , Ireland and the Netherlands . Collins' version is 2:56 minutes long and appeared on the album Hello, I Must Be Going! . On the B-side of the single is the track Oddball .

Other covers

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Charts UK Charts US
  2. ^ Motown catalog number 649, published in Great Britain under Motown catalog number STML11039; For more information see: KD Tilch : Rock LPs 1955-1970. Vol. 3: MS . 3rd ext. Hamburg: Taurus Press, 1990, p. 1560
  3. ^ Motown catalog number 1097; B-side: Put Yourself in My Place .
  4. ↑ Fred Bronson: The Billboard Book of Number One Hits . 3rd revised and expanded edition. New York City, New York: Billboard Publications, 1992, p. 207
  5. ↑ Charts DE Charts AT Charts CH Charts UK Charts US
  6. ↑ Runaway Boys: A Retrospective '81 -'92 Allmusic.com
Phil Collins singles


Singles

In the Air Tonight (1981) • I Missed Again (1981) • If Leaving Me Is Easy (1981) • Thru These Walls (1982) • You Can't Hurry Love (1982) • I Know There's Something Going On (feat. Frida ) (1982) • Why Can't It Wait 'Til Morning (1983) • I Don't Care Anymore (1983) • Don't Let Him Steal Your Heart Away (1983) • Against All Odds (Take a Look at Me Now) (1984) • Easy Lover (feat. Philip Bailey ) (1984) • Sussudio (1985) • One More Night (1985) • Don't Lose My Number (1985) • Take Me Home (1985) • Separate Lives (feat. Marilyn Martin) (1985) • In the Air Tonight ('88 Remix) (1988) • A Groovy Kind of Love (1988) • Two Hearts (1988) • Another Day in Paradise (1989) • I Wish It Would Rain Down (1990) • Do You Remember? (1990) • Something Happened on the Way to Heaven (1990) • That's Just the Way It Is (1990) • Hang In Long Enough (1990) • Do You Remember? (Live) (1990) • Who Said I Would (Live) (1991) • Both Sides of the Story (1993) • Hero (feat. David Crosby ) (1994) • Everyday (1994) • We Wait and We Wonder (1994 ) • Somewhere (1996) • Dance into the Light (1996) • It's in Your Eyes (1997) • No Matter Who (1997) • Wear My Hat (1997) • The Same Moon (1997) • True Colors (1998) • You'll Be in My Heart (1999) • Strangers Like Me (1999) • Son of Man (2000) • Two Worlds (2000) • In the Air Tonite (feat. Lil 'Kim ) (2001) • Can't Stop Loving You (2002) • Come With Me (2003) • The Least You Can Do / Wake Up Call (2003) • Look Through My Eyes (2003) • Home (feat. Bone Thugs-N-Harmony ) (2003) • No Way Out (2004) • You Touch My Heart (2005) • (Love Is Like A) Heatwave (2010)