Going Down for the Third Time of the last songs to feature Ballard as a member of the Supremes. A few months after this was recorded, Ballard was replaced by Cindy Birdsong. Phoebe Snow covered this song on her album “Second Childhood,” released in January, 1976. Going Down for the Third Time "Going Down For The Third Time" is a song written and composed by Holland–Dozier–Holland and recorded by Motown singing group The Supremes in 1967. The song was issued as the b-side to the popular "Reflections". The song features a fierce-sounding Diana Ross telling herself that she's "going down for the third time" in a
Frog and the Birdsong home at sundown, another blackbird starts singing a beautiful song, "as it always does," indicating that life goes on. Velthuijs first published "Frog and the Birdsong" in 1991 with Leopold, a Dutch publisher of children's books. It won the 1992 "Gouden Griffel", one of the most significant Dutch prizes for children's books, and was a runner-up for the companion award for illustrations, the "Gouden Penseel". By 2003, it was in its fourteenth printing. The book was digitized by the Digital Library for Dutch Literature and is available online. It is translated into English and published by Andersen Press. Children often