Your Heart Belongs To Me
1962 · Motown 1027 · Detroit, Michigan
- Artist
- The Supremes
- Title
- Your Heart Belongs To Me
- Release
- Your Heart Belongs to Me / (He's) Seventeen
- Year
- 1962
- Label
- Motown # 1027
- Format
- 7" · Single
- Language
- English
- Country
- Detroit, Michigan, USA
- Genre
- Soul, Gospel & Funk · R&B
- Primary theme
- Home Front Perspective / Soldier's Perspective
Annotation
The pop-soul song "Your Heart Belongs to Me" (Motown Records # 1027) took the 'soldier boy' perspective, as a woman missed her sweetheart who had "gone to a faraway land, serving your country" - in Berlin? Vietnam? Like a whole bunch of 'soldier boy' tracks from the early 1960s, it presented soldiering as a common activity. The sweetheart sent the soldier "a picture to carry with you all the time" for when he was "feeling lonely" and so that he did not forget her. It featured the vocals of the Detroit, Michigan girl group as a quartet - Diana Ross, Florence Ballard, Mary Wilson and Barbara Martin. Smokey Robinson composed and produced the song. The Supremes signed to Motown in 1961 and it took several years before becoming a top-charting success with twelve number one singles. This song, recorded in December 1961 and released on 8 May 1962, only reached # 95 in the Billboard charts (18 August 1962) - the first of their songs to chart. (1) It may have been hampered by the The Shirelles' hugely successful "Soldier Boy" (above), released several months before (March 1962), on exactly the same theme. Or, perhaps the successful of the Shirelles single boosted this into the charts? (2)…
Annotation by Justin A. Brummer
Annotation — US Domestic Perspective Songs
The pop-soul song "Your Heart Belongs to Me" (Motown Records # 1027) took the 'soldier boy' perspective, as a woman missed her sweetheart who had "gone to a faraway land, serving your country" - in Berlin? Vietnam? Like a whole bunch of 'soldier boy' tracks from the early 1960s, it presented soldiering as a common activity. The sweetheart sent the soldier "a picture to carry with you all the time" for when he was "feeling lonely" and so that he did not forget her. It featured the vocals of the Detroit, Michigan girl group as a quartet - Diana Ross, Florence Ballard, Mary Wilson and Barbara Martin. Smokey Robinson composed and produced the song. The Supremes signed to Motown in 1961 and it took several years before becoming a top-charting success with twelve number one singles. This song, recorded in December 1961 and released on 8 May 1962, only reached # 95 in the Billboard charts (18 August 1962) - the first of their songs to chart. (1) It may have been hampered by the The Shirelles' hugely successful "Soldier Boy" (above), released several months before (March 1962), on exactly the same theme. Or, perhaps the successful of the Shirelles single boosted this into the charts? (2)…
Annotation by Justin A. Brummer
About the artist
Formed 1961, Detroit, Michigan, USA. Disbanded 1977, London, Greater London, UK