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Diana Ross & The Supremes

Love Child

Soul
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1968
  • 1968
  • 1969
  • 1961
  • 1967
  • 1960

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“Love Child” is a 1968 song released by the Motown label for Diana Ross & the Supremes, becoming the Supremes’ 11th number-one single in the United States. The song became the number-one single on the Billboard Hot 100 pop chart for two weeks, from November 30, 1968 through December 14, 1968 and reached number two on the soul chart for three weeks. “Love Child” is notable for its-then controversial subject matter of illegitimacy. It is also notable for knocking off and keeping The Beatles’ massive “Hey Jude” off the top spot in the United States, the last of five replacements at number-one between the Beatles and Supremes, the two most popular music acts in America during the 1960s. The Supremes debuted the song on the season premiere of the CBS variety program The Ed... Read on...

Song lines: ♪ Love Child, never meant to be ... I'll always love you ... Love Child, misunderstood

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More songs by Diana Ross & The Supremes (See Charts): The Composer, Someday We'Ll Be Together, and Surfer Boy.

Popular in Soul (See Charts): On The Line, Music And Me, Fall Again, I'Ll Be There, It'S A Man'S Man'S World, Stand By Me, I Got You (I Feel Good), (Sittin' On) The Dock Of The Bay, Upside Down, and Isn'T She Lovely.

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