Music Memories during my 3rd Year. From my 2nd Birthday on Wednesday, the 20th of February 1974, through to Wednesday, the 19th of February 1975
Diana Ross & The Supremes
Baby Love
Charting in the year of 1974, on the 18th of August, are Diana Ross & The Supremes with the single Baby Love.
A blast from the past…
…returned to the UK singles chart, as I was travelling onwards along the third year of my life, and for a while during my adulthood I wondered if I’d imagined it.
The song being by this point in 1974 already ten years back in the distant past, it was only when I researched it, that I found I was not going crazy, that there was a reason why I remember it playing so much on the kitchen radio when I was incredibly young, and it was then that I found out it had been re-issued back into the charts when I was two-and-a-half.
It solidified my conviction of being one of the earliest songs I consciously remember playing on the radio.
Of course, the single had been a huge smash…
…ten years previously, and over here, had been their first No.1 single during the latter half of November 1964, when it stayed at the top spot for 2 consecutive weeks.
Back then, the single was released just as The Supremes, Diana at that point not having emerged as the dominant force in the trio. It had also been released on the Stateside label.
Now, with Diana Ross having been billed out front since the summer of 1967, and then leaving on her solo journey at the dawn of this new decade, thus resetting the rest of the group back to being called The Supremes once again, this reissue was released under the Tamla Motown label, and reverting the latter updated name of the trio back with Diana out front once again for the first time in four years.
So why is the single back in the charts…
…after all this time?
I’m guessing it’s mainly because Motown, during this year of 1974, had released a triple album retrospective set of the most successful girl group in the world, entitled “Anthology”. That album, although it went all the way back through to the very beginnings in the recorded history of this trio, was also labelled as by Diana Ross & The Supremes. So my assumption is that Motown, re-issued their most popular single to coincide with, and promote, the new triple album.
Whatever the reason, whether my guess is good or not, the song got a new lease of life, and entered into my 2-year-old ear-holes for the first time; and for that reason, it still brings back deep fond memories whenever I hear it.
The reissued single…
…enters back into the chart on the 18th of August 1974, at No.41, and by the second week in September, has breached back into the Top 20, where it sits at No.14 for a fortnight, before scaling a couple of places higher to reach No.12 for a week at the end of that month.
From there,..
…it begins to head back down the chart as autumn progresses, and will finally leave again after the 26th of October, with a total of 10 more consecutive weeks, and a new fan of the song in the 2-year shape of little old me.
The “A” Side
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TV Performance
“Top Of The Pops” TV appearance.
TV Appearance
TV Performance
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