One of the Greatest Songs Ever Recorded: “When the Lovelight Starts Shining Through His Eyes” by The Supremes!!!

(pictured above from left to right: Diana Ross, Mary Wilson, Florence Ballard)

For as long as I’ve been on the radio, and definitely for as long as I’ve been writing a blog, I will occasionally make a reference to a song being “One of the Greatest Songs Ever Recorded!” (GSER)

I would usually follow that by saying that I would eventually start a category for it, but then never get around to it.

Well, now I’m getting around to it!

It will pretty much follow the pattern of The Most Awesomest Song of the Day.

I’ll select a song to celebrate and then give my thoughts about it. Nothing really brand new here that hasn’t been done before. But since I have a website, I can collect them and lay out what my own greatest songs are.

My radio show, “Prime Time Theme Attic,”  is on Monday nights 8PM-10PM ET but is on hiatus because of the pandemic.

Even though I always emphasize new music and artists, it’s always fun to take a short drive through the legendary artists, since they influenced those other artists!

But a song doesn’t have to be old or done by a legendary Theme Attic Hall of Fame member to be thus honored.

I can think of several songs that are only a few years old or less that I could identify as One of the Greatest Songs Ever Recorded.

This will be fun, and hopefully you will join me on my journey…at least sometimes!

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Wedged in between all of those British Invasion artists and Garage bands that I was listening to, were The Supremes!

I know their music inside and out.

And why wouldn’t I?

Even as a little kid I could tell how good the vocals were as well as the sharp quality of the Motown sound and The Funk Brothers!

Looking back at The Supremes [Hall of Fame] today because of the passing of Mary Wilson,  I was surprised to find out that the first hit that they had was one of my favorites: “When the Lovelight Starts Shining Through His Eyes!”

I had always thought that song was a hit a couple of years later in their career.

“Lovelight” was their first hit for the songwriting team Holland-Dozier-Holland, and made it up to #23 on Billboard! It was their seventh try for a hit single.

It was a song that sounded similar to what Phil Spector was doing.

“Lovelight” was dense, catchy, and it rocked!

Mary Wilson, along with Florence Ballard, mostly sang back up to Diana Ross.

But she was the primo Supreme, having been the only member who was there for their entire career, 1959-1977.

And that was a career that had many hits even after Diana left.

One of the Greatest Songs Ever Recorded is “When the Lovelight Starts Shining Through His Eyes” by The Supremes!!!

Here’s a bonus song featuring the beautiful and wonderful Mary Wilson sharing lead vocals with Jean Terrell and Lynda Laurence on 1972’s “Floy Joy!”

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