You Can’t Hurry Love

It gradually climbed all the way to a spectacular peak at number two on the 15th of January 1983.

It was tantalisingly close to securing David Essex another number one trophy, but the top spot was stubbornly defended by Phil Collins and his runaway high tempo cover version of The Supremes classic You Can't Hurry Love, which we heard recently.

Critical reception over the years [laughs] has been hilariously polarised.

In 2008, an article circulated by Asian News International bafflingly designated A Winter's Tale as the fourth worst Christmas song ever written.

Number three, Beauty Is Only Skin Deep by The Temptations.

Number two, You Can't Hurry Love, The Supremes.

And the number one song this week, it's the number one song for the second week in a row, it'll be number one for three weeks in a row, by The Association, Cherish.

You don't know how many times I've wished that I had told you.

Is there a song or performance that you're especially proud of? Or if so, what makes it meaningful to you?

I would say Can't Hurry Love by The Supremes.

And I'll

tell you, it's a little back story about that.

When I was doing the first Motown era show, we called it The Real Deal, and it was with my father and my sister.

And I did that song, Can't Hurry Love, in that show.

So it means a lot because they can't be with me this time because they moved to other states and whatever.

But it'll always be a memory whenever I sing that song.

And while Jet took some heat for that, Iggy and Bowie also borrowed it.

They borrowed it from Motown's Can't Hurry Love by the Supremes.

Didn't see that one coming, did you? Well, Jet takes a 10 out of 10 and turns it up even louder.

And it becomes an instant early 2000s anthem.

And it's also about love.

It's The Supremes, You Can't Hurry Love from 1966.

Here's the original.

I need to find, find someone to call mine.

No matter how long it takes, you'll carry love.

No, you just have to wait.

Okay, that was The Supremes with You Can't Hurry Love, which was number one in the US and Canada in September of 66.

So 60 years ago, maybe not to the exact date, even though the song was released in July, it reached number one in those countries.

Reverend Perro.

Can't hurry love.

I need love, love to ease my mind.

And I need to find time.

Someone to call mine.

My mama said, can't hurry love.

No, you just have to wait.

She said, love don't come easy.

Yes.

Number one hit was Supremes, first of two weeks for You Can't Hurry Love.

What a great tune.

The Phil Collins version.

Look,

interestingly, the drumbeat that starts that song was Filch from You Can't Hurry Love by The Supremes.

Really? In 1966.

Wow.