Where Did Our Love Go (album)

Where Did Our Love Go
Studio album by The Supremes
Released August 31, 1964
Recorded December 28, 1962 – August 13, 1964
Genre R&B, soul, doo-wop, pop
Label Motown
M 621
Producer Brian Holland
Lamont Dozier
Smokey Robinson
Norman Whitfield
Robert Gordy
The Supremes chronology
Meet The Supremes
(1962)		 Where Did Our Love Go
(1964)		 A Bit of Liverpool
(1964)
Singles from Where Did Our Love Go
  1. "A Breathtaking Guy"
    Released: June 12, 1963
  2. "When the Lovelight Starts Shining Through His Eyes"
    Released: October 31, 1963
  3. "Run, Run, Run"
    Released: February 7, 1964
  4. "Where Did Our Love Go"
    Released: June 17, 1964
  5. "Baby Love"
    Released: September 17, 1964
  6. "Come See About Me"
    Released: October 27, 1964
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic [1]

Where Did Our Love Go is the second studio album by Motown singing group The Supremes, released in 1964. The album includes several of the group's singles and B-sides from 1963 and 1964. Included are the group's first Billboard Pop Singles number-one hits, "Where Did Our Love Go", "Baby Love", and "Come See About Me", as well as their first Top 40 hit, "When the Lovelight Starts Shining Through His Eyes", and the singles "A Breathtaking Guy" and "Run, Run, Run".

With the release of this album, The Supremes became the first act in Billboard magazine history to have three number-one hits from the same album. It was the album that introduced "The Motown Sound" to the masses. It was also, at the time, the highest ranking album by an all female group. It remained in the #2 position for 4 weeks in January 1965, shut out of the top spot by the Beatles' blockbuster Beatles '65 album. Where Did Our Love Go remained on the Billboard album chart for an unprecedented 89 weeks. According to Motown data the album ultimately sold over 3,000,000 copies. This album was also the first ever number one album on Billboard's R&B album chart in January 1965.

Hip-O Select released a limited run fortieth anniversary deluxe edition of the album in 2004, which included both the mono and stereo versions of the album, as well as several outtakes, non-album tracks and a recorded live show from the Twenty Grand club in Detroit, Michigan. It sold out immediately. (see: Hip-O Select.com)

They filmed performances of four of the singles from the album including "Run, Run, Run", "When the Lovelight Starts Shining Through His Eyes", "Where Did Our Love Go" and "Baby Love" for the hit teen concert film, The T.A.M.I. Show" released on December 29, 1964. It was equivalent to Motown 25 or Live Aid as a pivotal music concert event . When it hit theaters nationwide, it undoubtedly raised and extended the visibility of the "Where Did Our Love Go" album.

Track listing

All tracks written by Holland–Dozier–Holland except as noted.

Side one

  1. "Where Did Our Love Go"
  2. "Run, Run, Run"
  3. "Baby Love"
  4. "When the Lovelight Starts Shining Through His Eyes"
  5. "Come See About Me"
  6. "Long Gone Lover" (Smokey Robinson)

Side two

  1. "I'm Giving You Your Freedom"
  2. "A Breathtaking Guy" (Robinson)
  3. "He Means the World to Me" (Norman Whitfield)
  4. "Standing at the Crossroads of Love"
  5. "Your Kiss of Fire" (Berry Gordy, Jr., Harvey Fuqua)
  6. "Ask Any Girl"

2004 Expanded CD bonus trackslist

  1. "This Is It" (Faye Hale) ****
  2. "I'm The Exception To The Rule" (Whitfield) **
  3. "Everyday I'll Love You More Than Yesterday" (Robinson, Claudette Rogers Robinson) *
  4. "Beginning To Ending" (George Fowler) *****
  5. "Mr. Blues" (Robinson) *
  6. "Come On Boy" (Berry Gordy, Jr.) ***
  7. "Bye Baby" (Gordy) ***
  8. "My Imagination" (Richard Parker, Faye Hale) ****
  9. "I Idolize You" (Robinson) *
  10. "You're Gonna Come To Me" (Gordy) (Version 4 - Credited as Version "3")
  11. "Honey Babe" (Gordy, Stevie Wonder) ***
  12. "Penny Pincher"
  13. "Let Me Hear You Say (I Love You)" (Andre Williams, Johnny Bristol) ********
  14. "Don't Take It Away" (William Weatherspoon, William "Mickey" Stevenson) *******
  15. "Just Call Me" (Ivy Jo Hunter, Stevenson) ******
  16. "That's A Funny Way" (Hunter, Stevenson) ******
  17. "Stop, Look & Listen" (Ed Cobb) ***
  18. "Send Me No Flowers"
  19. "Baby Love" (Alternate "early" version)
  20. "Introduction/Devil's Den" (Live (Live 1964)
  21. "When The Lovelight Starts Shining Through His Eyes" (Live 1964)
  22. "A Breathtaking Guy" (Live 1964)
  23. "Your Heart Belongs To Me" (Live 1964)
  24. "Let Me Go The Right Way" (Live 1964)
  25. "I Am Woman, You Are Man" (Jule Styne, Bob Merrill) (Live 1964)
  26. "People" (Merrill, Styne) (Live 1964)
  27. "Where Did Our Love Go" (Live 1964)

The original album sold a million copies {in 1964-1965} stateside alone. The limited exclusive "40th Anniversary" version is now listed as "sold out". It remains, to date, their third best selling studio album.

Personnel

Singles history

Chart history

Album

Name Chart (1964/1965) Peak
position
Where Did Our Love Go U.S. Billboard 200 2
U.S. Billboard R&B Albums Chart 1

Singles

Name Chart (1963 - 1964) Peak
position
"A Breath Taking Guy" U.S. Billboard Hot 100 75
U.S. Billboard R&B Singles Chart —
U.S. Cash Box R&B Singles —
"When the Lovelight Starts Shining Through His Eyes" U.S. Billboard Hot 100 23
U.S. Cash Box R&B Singles 2
"Run, Run, Run" U.S. Billboard Hot 100 93
U.S. Cash Box R&B Singles 22
"Where Did Our Love Go" U.S. Billboard Hot 100 1
U.S. Cash Box R&B Singles 1
UK Singles Chart 3
"Baby Love" U.S. Billboard Hot 100 1
U.S. Cash Box R&B Singles 1
UK Singles Chart 1
"Come See About Me" U.S. Billboard Hot 100 1
U.S. Cash Box R&B Singles 2
UK Singles Chart 27

References

  1. ↑ Planer, Lindsay. Where Did Our Love Go (album) at AllMusic
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