Love Child (song)

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"Love Child"
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Single by Diana Ross & the Supremes
from the album Love Child
B-side "Will This Be the Day"
ReleasedSeptember 30, 1968
Recorded Hitsville U.S.A. (Studio A); September 17, September 19, and September 20, 1968
Length2:54 (album/single version )
3:14 (2003 remix)
Label Motown
M 1135
Songwriter(s) R. Dean Taylor, Frank Wilson, Pam Sawyer, Deke Richards
Producer(s) The Clan
(R. Dean Taylor, Frank Wilson, Pam Sawyer, Deke Richards) and Henry Cosby
Diana Ross & the Supremes singles chronology
"Some Things You Never Get Used To"
(1968)
"Love Child"
(1968)
"I'm Gonna Make You Love Me"
(1968)
Love Child track listing
12 tracks
Side one
  1. "Love Child"
  2. "Keep an Eye"
  3. "How Long Has That Evening Train Been Gone"
  4. "Does Your Mama Know About Me"
  5. "Honey Bee (Keep on Stinging Me)"
  6. "Some Things You Never Get Used To"
Side two
  1. "He's My Sunny Boy"
  2. "You've Been So Wonderful to Me"
  3. "(Don't Break These) Chains of Love"
  4. "You Ain't Livin' Till You're Lovin'"
  5. "I'll Set You Free"
  6. "Can't Shake It Loose"

Certifications

RegionCertification Certified units/sales
United States2,000,000 [1]

Notable cover versions

In 1992, World Industries released a skateboard video entitled Love Child. [37] The soundtrack for the video consisted entirely of music from the late 1960s era (unusual for a skateboard video); the featured segment with Daewon Song was set to "Love Child" and after that, "One Bad Apple" by The Osmonds. To this day Love Child is considered one of the best skateboard videos ever made.[ citation needed ]

Taken from the 1993 album 'Janet.', the 1994 single You Want This by Janet Jackson opens with a prominent sample of the first bar of Love Child

In 1996, a foreign version of the song known as "Halila", performed by the artist Laladin, was featured in the Demi Moore film Striptease .

In 2003, the song was featured prominently in The Wire episode "Backwash".

In 2010 Korean-born American professional skateboarder Daewon Song recreated the first part of his Love Child run trick-for-trick for a DVS Shoes promotional video. [38]

In 2016, "Love Child" was featured on the in-game radio in Mafia III . [39]

See also

Bibliography

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