| 词条 | Floy Joy (album) |
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| name = Floy Joy | type = Studio album | artist = The Supremes | cover = floy-joy.jpg | alt = | released = May 1972 | recorded = 1971 - 1972 | venue = | studio = | genre = Pop, soul | length = 29:33 | label = Motown | producer = Smokey Robinson | prev_title = Dynamite | prev_year = 1971 | next_title = The Supremes Produced and Arranged by Jimmy Webb | next_year = 1972 | misc = {{Singles | name = Floy Joy | type = Studio album | single1 = Floy Joy | single1date = December 1, 1971 | single2 = Automatically Sunshine | single2date = April 11, 1972 | single3 = Your Wonderful, Sweet Sweet Love | single3date = July 11, 1972 }} }}{{Album ratings |rev1 = Allmusic |rev1score = {{Rating|3|5}}[1] |rev2 = Christgau's Record Guide |rev2Score = B+[2] }} Floy Joy is the twenty-fifth studio album released by The Supremes on the Motown label. This was the only Supremes album solely produced and arranged by Smokey Robinson and included the U.S. top 20 hit, "Floy Joy" and the U.S. top 40 hit, "Automatically Sunshine", both of which were top 10 hits in the U.K. The album sold around 150,000 copies in the USA.[3]OverviewFollowing the aborted album Promises Kept, Motown handed-over production duties for the Supremes to in-house songwriter, producer, artist, and company vice-president William "Smokey" Robinson. The then-current line-up of The Supremes included original Supreme Mary Wilson, Cindy Birdsong, and Jean Terrell. Appearing on the album cover alongside Terrell and Wilson was new member Lynda Laurence, brought in to replace Cindy Birdsong, who was noticeably pregnant at the time of the photo shoot. Despite appearing on the album cover, Laurence's vocals are not on the album. Floy Joy marks for the first time that Mary Wilson had several leads on an album. Wilson takes solo lead on the ballad "A Heart Like Mine." Wilson and Terrell trade-off lead vocals on "Floy Joy" and "Automatically Sunshine", whilst Terrell has sole lead on the album's third single, "Your Wonderful, Sweet Sweet Love". Cindy Birdsong provides a rare co-lead vocal on "Now the Bitter, Now the Sweet" and a spoken passage in "The Wisdom of Time". The "Floy Joy" single was the Supremes' final Top 20 hit on the Billboard Hot 100, reaching as high as #9 in the UK.[4] Its follow-ups, "Automatically Sunshine" and "Your Wonderful, Sweet Sweet Love" were not as successful, with "Automatically Sunshine" peaking at 37 on the Billboard Hot 100, 21 on the Top Soul Singles and being the group's final Top 10 hit in the U.K. (#10, the fifth in little over two years for the post-Ross line-up),[5] and "Your Wonderful, Sweet Sweet Love" peaking at 59 on the Billboard Hot 100 and 21 on the Top Soul Singles, and missing the UK Charts altogether. Track listingSide oneSuperscripts denote lead singers for each track: (a) Jean Terrell, (b) Mary Wilson, (c) Cindy Birdsong.
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Personnel
References1. ^[{{Allmusic|class=album|id=r77026|pure_url=yes}} Allmusic review] {{The Supremes}}2. ^{{cite book|last=Christgau|first=Robert|authorlink=Robert Christgau|year=1981|title=Rock Albums of the Seventies|publisher=Ticknor & Fields|isbn=089919026X|chapter=Consumer Guide '70s: S|chapter-url=https://www.robertchristgau.com/get_chap.php?k=S&bk=70|accessdate=March 13, 2019|via=robertchristgau.com}} 3. ^http://www.greasylake.org/the-circuit/index.php?%2Ftopic%2F116321-the-supremes-diana-ross-stevie-wonder-and-ray-charlesusa-album-sales%2F 4. ^"Guinness British Hit Singles", fifth edition, Rice/Rice/Gambaccini/Read, Guinness Books, {{ISBN|0-85112-429-1}} 5. ^"Guinness British Hit Singles", fifth edition, Rice/Rice/Gambaccini/Read, Guinness Books, {{ISBN|0-85112-429-1}} 5 : 1972 albums|The Supremes albums|Albums arranged by Paul Riser|Albums produced by Smokey Robinson|Motown albums |
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