Love Is Like An Itching In My Heart/This Old Heart Of Mine/You Can’t Hurry Love/Shake Me Wake Me/Baby I Need Your Loving/These Boots Are Made For Walking/I Can’t Help Myself/Get Ready/Put Yourself In My Place/Money(That’s What I Want)/Come & Get These Memories/Hang On Sloopy
Motown chartbusters The Supremes hit the top spot on the US album chart with their A' Go-Go album, featuring several cover versions of recent hits for dancing. Includes the No. 9 US hit Love Is Like An Itching In My Heart and the smash You Can't Hurry Love, No. 1 in the States and No. 3 in Britain. (US:1 UK:15)
"Yes, I know it's just a bunch of covers centred around a couple of brilliant Supremes songs. But hey, they don't cover just anything here, we get The Four Tops' best song (Can't Help Myself), The Temptations' best song (Get Ready) and The Isley Brothers' best song (This Old Heart Of Mine), and the versions here are mostly very good."
"Another concept album, this time The Supremes sing songs for dancing to. Works pretty well, despite some very silly covers in the shape of Hang On Sloopy and These Boots Are Made For Walking. The rest of the covers are solid Motown. The high point, of course, is You Can't Hurry Love, with a marvellously imaginative arrangement and superbly springy drums."
"Motown's obvious marketing ploy was that in getting The Supremes to do a series of famous cover versions of hits from around that era, this would instantly sell the album in big proportions, as well as also showing how adept and versatile a vocalist Ross had become. Well, Motown's strategy worked as The Supremes A Go Go raced to the top of the album charts. Though highly commercial and formulaic, it proves compelling and is indeed a classic album."
"This set was put together (rather quickly is my guess) and released to capitalize on a hot streak. There is a semblance of a 'concept' with the 'au go-go' thing, i.e., a record full of danceable tunes."
"The concept in this album is so obvious and formulaic, that one may pass it as routine. It's not different from many other Motown albums, by including hits as well as Motown and other covers. But the selection of songs is very good."
"Essentially this is a rehash of old Motown hits in order to bang an album together."
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