DIANA ROSS & THE SUPREMES/REFLECTIONS TML 11073 (-68) UK MONO

At the time for this album there was a lot going on both around and within the group. It was the first LP to be billed as "Diana Ross & The Supremes" and also Florence Ballards final recordings with the gang. She sings background on some of the tracks while the rest has her replacement Cindy Birdsong. It would also be their last collaboration with Holland-Dozier-Holland, who wrote five of the tracks and produced ten. The rest of the songs were written by the Holloway sisters, Burt Bacharach, Bobby Gentry and Smokey Robinson, the latter also producer to two of the tracks. It did very well with #18 on Billboard, #3 on US R&B chart and #30 in UK. The title song '45 went #2 on Billboard and #5 in UK. To my taste maybe not their absolute best album, but with some very good tracks. And although writers and producers differs it sticks together, allowing both up-tempo and warm gentle within the same frame. The separate mono mix is tops and the audio perfect. It was the groups last US commercial issue in both mono and stereo (Motown M/MS 665). UK 1:st with label as shown here, laminated flip/back cover and EMI ad inner. (TÖMÖ*)(FÄV*)(ZYZÖ*)