LOVE CHILD – Diana Ross“Love Little one” is a 1968 track launched by the Motown label for Diana Ross & the Supremes. The second single and title observe from their album Love Little one, it turned the Supremes’ eleventh (and penultimate) number-one single within the United States.
The document took simply three weeks to succeed in the High Ten of the Billboard Sizzling 100 pop chart, which it then topped for 2 weeks, November 30—December 7, 1968, earlier than being dethroned by an excellent greater Motown single, Marvin Gaye‘s “I Heard It By the Grapevine“. “Love Little one” additionally carried out properly on the soul chart — the place it spent three weeks at quantity two (caught behind Johnnie Taylor‘s “Who’s Making Love“) — and paved new floor for a serious pop hit with its then-controversial subject material of illegitimacy.
It’s also the only that lastly knocked the Beatles‘ “Hey Jude” off the highest spot in the US after its nine-week run. The Supremes debuted the dynamic and intense track on the season premiere of the CBSvariety program The Ed Sullivan Present on Sunday, September 29, 1968.
In Billboard’s particular 2015 chart of the High 40 Largest Woman Teams of All Time on the Billboard Sizzling 100, “Love Little one” ranked highest among the many Supremes’ six entries. It’s thought of to be one of many first disco songs. supply