"I'm Gonna Make You Love Me" | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Single by Diana Ross & the Supremes and The Temptations | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
from the album Diana Ross & the Supremes Join The Temptations | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
B-side | "A Place in the Sun" | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Released | November 21, 1968 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Format | Vinyl record (7" 45 RPM) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Recorded | Hitsville USA (Studios A & B); May 3, May 18, May 31, June 20, August 26, September 4 and September 13, 1968 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Genre | Soul, pop | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Length | 3:08 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Label |
Motown M 1137 |
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Writer(s) |
Kenneth Gamble Jerry Ross |
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Producer(s) |
Frank Wilson Nickolas Ashford |
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11 tracks |
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"I'm Gonna Make You Love Me" is a soul song most popularly released as a joint single performed by Diana Ross & the Supremes and The Temptations for the Motown label. This version peaked for two weeks at #2 on the Hot 100 in the United States (behind Marvin Gaye's "I Heard It Through the Grapevine") and at #3 on the UK Singles Chart in January 1969.
Written by Kenneth Gamble and Jerry Ross, it was originally a top 20 R&B hit for Dee Dee Warwick in 1966 (U.S. #88 Pop). Madeline Bell's cover peaked at #30 on the Hot 100 on 23 March 1968.
All versions of the song credit the songwriting to Jerry Ross and Kenny Gamble, who were the only two writers named on original record labels. Some recordings also credit Jerry Williams as a third writer, although BMI and some other sources credit Leon Huff, rather than Williams.
"I'm Gonna Make You Love Me" was released as a single by Dee Dee Warwick on Mercury Records as the follow-up to her Top Ten R&B hit "I Want to Be With You"; co-writer Jerry Ross produced the track whose arrangement was by Jimmy Wisner while Nickolas Ashford and Valerie Simpson provided background vocals. This single - whose B-side is the earliest known recorded version of "Yours Until Tomorrow" by Gerry Goffin and Carole King - reached #13 R&B crossing over to #88 Pop in December 1966.