Everybody's Got the Right to Love

"Everybody's Got the Right to Love"
Single by The Supremes
from the album Right On
B-side "But I Love You More"
Released June 25, 1970
Recorded 1970, Golden World Studios, Detroit, Michigan
Genre R&B, Pop
Label Motown
Writer(s) Lou Stallman
Producer(s) Frank Wilson
The Supremes singles chronology
"Why (Must We Fall in Love) (with The Temptations)"
(1970)
"Everybody's Got the Right to Love"
(1970)
"Stoned Love"
(1970)
Right On track listing

"Everybody's Got the Right to Love" is a socially conscious–inspired pop song written by Lou Stallman, produced by Frank Wilson and released as a single in 1970 by Motown group The Supremes, who took the song into the top forty in mid-1970 following the release of "Up the Ladder to the Roof".

Song information

The songs features new Supremes lead singer Jean Terrell in lead with backup and help from Mary Wilson and Cindy Birdsong. The lyrics describe how everyone should be able to loves more often saying "without love you can't survive". This is the first songs that showcases the group's vocals as a group, which had not been done since the late 1960s; At the start of the song the quartet sings, "..Say I/Say Yeah..", in harmony. There are at least three different versions of the song. One appears on the Supremes' "70's Greatest Hits & Rare Classics" and the other on The Supremes (2000 album).

Charts

The song became a top 30 hit for the Supremes peaking at number 21 on the Billboard Hot 100 and reaching number 11 on the R&B chart.[1] "Everybody's Got the Right to Love was the second of eight top forty singles the Supremes scored after the departure of Diana Ross. It did not make the top 50 in the UK Singles Chart, interrupting an otherwise successful run of top ten hits for the group in Britain.

Chart Peak
position
U.S. Billboard Hot 100 21
U.S. Billboard R&B Singles Chart 11
U.S. Billboard Adult Contemporary Singles Chart 29

Personnel

References

  1. Whitburn, Joel (2004). Top R&B/Hip-Hop Singles: 1942-2004. Record Research. p. 558.
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