GP's song of the day: The Supremes

You Can't Hurry Love is two minutes and 50 seconds of absolute pop perfection.

A number one in 1966, You Can't Hurry Love was written and produced by Motown's crack Holland-Dozier-Holland production team. Remarkably, it was recorded at the same time as the also fairly fantastic You Keep Me Hangin' On and it was left to Motown's Quality Control Department to choose which one would be released first.

It was included in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's permanent collection of 500 Songs that Shaped Rock and Roll. It's hard to argue with that judgement. Not even the efforts of Phil Collins and Whoopi Goldberg (in the film Sister Act) in their covers of it can do anything to sully its good name.