What’s the connection between the Supremes, the Lee Marvin/Ernest Borgnine film The Soiled Dozen, and the hit TV collection The Brady Bunch? The reply is movie and tv composer Frank DeVol. He was behind these theme tunes amongst many others, and joined Holland, Dozier and Holland because the co-writer of the Motown trio’s tenth US pop No.1, “The Taking place.” The track rose to the Billboard Sizzling 100 peak on Might 13, 1967.
This was a traditional case of a track being much better remembered than the movie for which it was the theme. The Taking place was a interval piece about hippies and the mafia that starred Anthony Quinn. Each the one and its B-side, “All I Know About You,” have been featured within the movie, which offered the large display screen debut of Faye Dunaway.
‘It could possibly occur to you’
The track, in the meantime, sounds jaunty and carefree from a distance, and somewhat extra poppy than the Supremes’ traditional soul crossover model of the time. On nearer inspection, the lyric is about misplaced love, and somebody who thinks all is properly “till love took a detour, yeah!” they usually discover that romance has taken its go away. “It occurred to me and it might probably occur to you,” ran the cautionary story.
“The Taking place” was notable for different causes. It was the final Supremes No.1 that includes Florence Ballard, and the final written by the HDH group. They have been rising sad with what they noticed as an inappropriate stage of monetary remuneration from Motown. After writing three extra superb Supremes singles, “Reflections,” “In And Out Of Love,” and “Without end Got here At the moment,” moved onto pastures new with their Invictus and Sizzling Wax labels.
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After debuting on the Sizzling 100 in early April, “The Taking place” hit the highest in simply its fifth chart week, changing Frank and Nancy Sinatra’s “Somethin’ Silly” at No.1. Years later, the Supremes quantity was chosen as a favourite document on the long-running BBC radio collection Desert Island Discs by each actor Jane Lapotaire and former British Prime Minister John Main.
Purchase or stream “The Taking place” on the Supremes’ Gold compilation.