12 tracks
Side one "Love Is Like an Itching in My Heart" "This Old Heart of Mine (Is Weak for You)" "You Can't Hurry Love" "Shake Me, Wake Me (When It's Over)" "Baby I Need Your Loving" "These Boots Are Made for Walkin'" Side two "I Can't Help Myself (Sugar Pie Honey Bunch)" "Get Ready" "Put Yourself in My Place" "Money (That's What I Want)" "Come and Get These Memories" "Hang On Sloopy"

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"You Can't Hurry Love"

12 tracks
Side one "Love Is Like an Itching in My Heart" "This Old Heart of Mine (Is Weak for You)" "You Can't Hurry Love" "Shake Me, Wake Me (When It's Over)" "Baby I Need Your Loving" "These Boots Are Made for Walkin'" Side two "I Can't Help Myself (Sugar Pie Honey Bunch)" "Get Ready" "Put Yourself in My Place" "Money (That's What I Want)" "Come and Get These Memories" "Hang On Sloopy"

"You Can't Hurry Love"

Single by Phil Collins

from the album Hello, I Must Be Going!

B-side

"I Cannot Believe It's True" (International) / "Do You Know, Do You Care?" (North America)

Released

November 19, 1982

Format

7" single / 12" , CD

Recorded

1982

Genre

Blue-eyed soul

Length

2:56

Label

Virgin Records (UK)
Atlantic Records (International)

Writer(s)

Holland–Dozier–Holland

Producer(s)

Phil Collins, Hugh Padgham

Phil Collins singles chronology

"Thru These Walls"
(1982)

"You Can't Hurry Love"
(1982)

"I Don't Care Anymore"
(1983)

"You Can't Hurry Love" is a 1966 song originally recorded by The Supremes on the Motown label.

Written and produced by Motown production team Holland–Dozier–Holland, the song topped the United States Billboard pop singles chart, in the UK in the top 5, and in the Australian Singles Chart in the top 10, released and peaking late summer/early autumn in 1966. Sixteen years later, it would again become a number-one hit when Phil Collins re-recorded the song. It reached number-one on the UK Singles Chart for two weeks beginning in January 1983, and reached No. 10 on the US Singles Chart that same month.

The song, a memory of a mother's words of encouragement ("My mama said 'you can't hurry love/No you just have to wait' ") telling her daughter that with patience she will find that special someone one day, is an example of the strong influence of gospel music present in much of R&B and soul music. "You Can't Hurry Love" was inspired by and partially based upon "(You Can't Hurry God) He's Right on Time" ("You can't hurry God/you just have to wait/Trust and give him time/no matter how long it takes"), a 1950s gospel song written by Dorothy Love Coates of The Original Gospel Harmonettes.

The recorded version of "You Can't Hurry Love" showcases the developing sound of The Supremes, who were progressing from their earlier teen-pop into more mature themes and musical arrangements. This song and "You Keep Me Hangin' On" were finished together; when it came time to choose which single would be issued first, Motown's Quality Control department chose "You Can't Hurry Love."

Written and produced by Motown's main production team, Holland–Dozier–Holland, "You Can't Hurry Love" is one of the signature Supremes songs, and also one of Motown's signature releases. The single became The Supremes' seventh number-one hit, topping the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart for two weeks, from September 4, 1966 to September 17, 1966, and reaching number one on the soul chart for two weeks. The group performed the song on the CBS variety program The Ed Sullivan Show on Sunday, September 25, 1966.

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