YOU CAN'T HURRY LOVE

Created on 17/09/2002
Latest update on 11/09/2023

Artist: Supremes
Author: Edward Holland/Lamont Dozier/Brian Holland
Label: Motown
Year: 1966

One of 12 US n°1 hits H/D/H wrote for them. Not based on gospel You Can't Hurry God (He's Right On Time) by Dorothy Love Coates, but it's good to know it exists (see there).

Covers:

1967:

Surfs [as C'est grâce à toi]

1972:

Claude François [as Une Fille et des fleurs]

1975:

Melanie

1976:

Graham Parker [Live At Marble Arch]

1981:

Stray Cats [B-side of Rock This Town]

1982:

Phil Collins [n°1 UK, B & NL; triggering a songwriting partnership with Lamont; result: Two Hearts, the Oscar winning theme of film Buster (\'88)]

1999:

Dixie Chicks [in film Runaway Bride]

2014:

Boyzone [some titles lose appeal with every cover added]

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