"You Can't Hurry Love" boasts all the essential ingredients of the Supremes' greatest Motown hits - all of them except for Florence Ballard, that is. Ballard, the talented but troubled Supremes vocalist pushed out of the spotlight by Motown brass in favor of Diana Ross, was absent for the session that produced "You Can't Hurry Love" and surreptitiously replaced by Marlene Barrow, a member of the Andantes, the label's longtime in-house vocal group - a substitution that did absolutely nothing to dull the 1966 single's impact or slow its ascent to the top of the pop charts.
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