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You Can't Hurry Love

Certain Songs #2583: The Supremes – “You Can’t Hurry Love”

April 4, 2023 by Jim Connelly

Album: The Supremes A’ Go-Go
Year: 1966

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It didn’t really happen until decades after the original recordings, but pretty much everybody knows by now, the Motown studio musicians awesomely known as “The Funk Brothers” were as responsible for their amazing 1960’s run as the above-the-line performers, writers and producers who got the big glory. And the big bucks.

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Certain Songs #245: The Concretes – “You Can’t Hurry Love”

July 9, 2015 by Jim Connelly

You_Can't_Hurry_Love_scandinavian_cover Album: The Concretes
Year: 2003

For awhile in the early 2000s, MTV2 revived 120 Minutes, and — just like in the late 80s — I would occasionally record it looking for things that hadn’t previously crossed my radar. That’s how I first came across acts like Broken Social Scene, Secret Machines and where I first saw the amazing animated video for “You Can’t Hurry Love” by the Concretes.

That video is one of my all-time favorites, depicting what I assume are The Concretes interacting with icons from the 1970s & 1970s: Eno, Ono, Elton, Buckingham & Nicks, and probably some others that I’m missing. It’s the perfect video for one of my favorite songs of this millennium.

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