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Stoned Love

"Stoned Love"
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Single by The Supremes
from the album New Ways but Love Stays
B-side "Shine On Me"
Released October 15, 1970
Format 7" single
Recorded Golden World (Studio B), Detroit: March 10, April 2, and April 27, 1970; New York City studio: May 12, 1970
Genre Soul, pop, psychedelic soul
Length 3:01 (single edit)
4:09 (album version)
Label Motown
M 1172
Writer(s) Kenny Thomas1
Frank Wilson
Producer(s) Frank Wilson
The Supremes singles chronology
"Everybody's Got the Right to Love"
(1970)
"Stoned Love"
(1970)
"River Deep – Mountain High" (with Four Tops)
(1970)
New Ways but Love Stays track listing

"Stoned Love" is a 1970 hit single recorded by The Supremes for the Motown label. It was the last Billboard Pop Top Ten hit for the group, peaking at number seven, and their last Billboard number-one R&B hit as well, although the trio continued to score top ten hits in the UK into 1972. This single and "Up the Ladder to the Roof" are the only top-ten Supremes singles to feature Jean Terrell on lead vocals instead of Diana Ross, who left the group in January 1970 to pursue a solo career. In the UK, it was the post-Ross Supremes' biggest hit, reaching number 3 in the singles chart. The single spent six weeks in the UK top ten and five weeks in the US top ten.

A plea for love and peace similar to those recorded by Sly & the Family Stone in the late 1960s, the lyrics of "Stoned Love" were a plea for the people of the world to end conflict and animosity between each other, specifically the Vietnam War. Writer Kenny Thomas chose the term "stone love" to define the concept of an unchanging bond between one another. A slight variant of that phrase appeared two years later in The Stylistics' title "I'm Stone in Love with You".

Thomas was a Detroit teenager who had entered some of his songs into a local radio talent show, which record producer Frank Wilson happened to tune into. Wilson arranged a meeting with the young musician at Thomas' house, where he proceeded to play a number of songs on a guitar that only had two strings. One of the songs he played was an unfinished version of "Stoned Love." Wilson was very much impressed with the song and came back to Thomas' house a few days later with, to Thomas' delight and surprise, Supremes member Mary Wilson (no relation to Frank).


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