Floy Joy (album)
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Floy Joy | ||||
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Studio album by | ||||
Released | May 1972 | |||
Recorded | 1971–1972 | |||
Genre | Pop, soul | |||
Length | 29:33 | |||
Label | Motown | |||
Producer | Smokey Robinson | |||
The Supremes chronology | ||||
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Singles from Floy Joy | ||||
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Review scores | |
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Source | Rating |
AllMusic | [1] |
Christgau's Record Guide | B+[2] |
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music | [3] |
The Rolling Stone Album Guide | [4] |
Floy Joy is the twenty-fifth
Overview
Following the aborted 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
Track listing
Side one
Superscripts denote lead singers for each track: (a) Jean Terrell, (b) Mary Wilson, (c) Cindy Birdsong.
- "Your Wonderful, Sweet Sweet Love" (Smokey Robinson)a
- "Floy Joy" (Robinson)a, b
- "A Heart Like Mine" (Robinson, Ronald White)b
- "Over and Over" (Robinson)a
- "Precious Little Things" (Robinson, Marvin Tarplin, Pam Moffett)a
Side two
- "Now the Bitter, Now the Sweet" (Robinson, Cecil Franklin)a,b,c
- "Automatically Sunshine" (Robinson)a, b
- "The Wisdom of Time" (Robinson, Moffett, Clifford Burston)a, c
- "Oh Be My Love" (Robinson, Warren Moore)a
Personnel
- Jean Terrell, Mary Wilson, & Cindy Birdsong - lead vocals and background vocals
- The Andantes (Louvain Demps, Jackie Hicks, Marlene Barrow) - additional background vocals
- William "Smokey" Robinson- producer
- Instrumentation by The Funk Brothers:
- Eddie "Bongo" Brown- percussion
- Marvin Tarplin- guitars
- Johnny Griffith & Earl Van Dyke - piano, keyboards
- James Jamerson - bass
- Zachary Slater & Andrew Smith - drums
- Berry Gordy - executive producer
- Paul Riser - arranger
- Jim Britt - photography
Charts
Weekly charts
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Year-end charts
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References
- ^ AllMusic review
- ISBN 089919026X. Retrieved March 13, 2019 – via robertchristgau.com.
- ^ Larkin, Colin (2006). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music. Vol. 7. MUZE. p. 859.
- ^ The Rolling Stone Album Guide. Random House. 1992. p. 684.
- ISBN 0-85112-429-1
- ISBN 0-85112-429-1
- ^ "The Supremes Chart History (Billboard 200)". Billboard. Retrieved 1 January 2020.
- ^ "The Supremes Chart History (Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums)". Billboard. Retrieved 1 January 2020.
- ^ "THE ALBUM CHART: Week of July 8, 1972" (PDF). Record World. worldradiohistory.com. July 8, 1972. Retrieved 29 January 2021.
- ^ "THE R&B ALBUM CHART: Week of July 22, 1972" (PDF). Record World. worldradiohistory.com. July 22, 1972. p. 256. Retrieved 29 January 2021.
- ^ "Top Soul Albums" (PDF). Billboard. December 30, 1972. p. TA-26. Retrieved 14 January 2022.