Formed in Detroit in 1959 as the Primettes and signed to Motown as the Supremes, Diana Ross, Mary Wilson and Florence Ballard became the label's most commercially dominant act, notching twelve number-one singles built on the airtight songwriting of Holland–Dozier–Holland. "You Keep Me Hangin' On," "Baby Love" and "Stop! In the Name of Love" turned pop, girl-group harmony and Motown's assembly-line production into some of the biggest records of the 1960s. Their polished, hook-driven originals gave other bands raw material to reinterpret entirely — never more dramatically than when a Long Island rock band slowed "Hangin' On" down into something completely different.

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1966

You Keep Me Hangin' OnThe Supremes