I'm Gonna Make You Love Me

"I'm Gonna Make You Love Me"
US single picture sleeve
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"
ReleasedNovember 21, 1968
RecordedMay 3, May 18, May 31, June 20, August 26, September 4 and September 13, 1968
StudioHitsville USA (Studios A & B)
GenreSoul, pop
Length3:08
LabelMotown
M 1137
Songwriter(s)Gamble and Huff
Jerry Ross
Producer(s)Frank Wilson
Nickolas Ashford
Diana Ross & the Supremes singles chronology
"Love Child"
(1968)
"I'm Gonna Make You Love Me"
(1968)
"I'm Livin' in Shame"
(1969)
The Temptations singles chronology
"Cloud Nine"
(1968)
"I'm Gonna Make You Love Me"
(1968)
"Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer"
(1968)

"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 No. 2 on the Hot 100 in the United States, selling 900,000 copies in its first two weeks,[1] and at No. 3 on the UK Singles Chart in January 1969.

Written by Gamble and Huff and Jerry Ross,[2] it was originally a top 20 R&B hit for Dee Dee Warwick in 1966 (U.S. No. 88 Pop). Madeline Bell's cover peaked at No. 26 on the Hot 100 on 23 March 1968.

  1. ^ Joseph Murrells (1984). Million Selling Records from the 1900s to the 1980s: An Illustrated Directory. London: B.T. Batsford. p. 272. ISBN 0-7134-3843-6.
  2. ^ Mark Ribowsky (23 October 2008). The Supremes: A Saga of Motown Dreams, Success, and Betrayal. Hachette Books. pp. 385–. ISBN 978-0-7867-2691-2.