Where Did Our Love Go (album)

Infobox Album | Name = Where Did Our Love Go
Type = Studio album
Artist = The Supremes


Released = August 31, 1964
Recorded = December 28, 1962–July 13, 1964
Genre = Pop/soul
Length = 31:35
Label = Motown
M 621
Producer = Brian Holland
Lamont Dozier
Smokey Robinson
Norman Whitfield
Robert Gordy
Reviews =
* Allmusic Rating|4.5|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:zl08b5f4tsqk link]
Last album = "Meet the Supremes"
(1962)
This album = "Where Did Our Love Go"
(1963)
Next album = "A Bit of Liverpool"
(1964)
Misc = Singles
Name = Where Did Our Love Go
Type = Studio album
single 1 = A Breathtaking Guy
single 1 date = June 12, 1963
single 2 = When the Lovelight Starts Shining Through His Eyes
single 2 date = October 31, 1963
single 3 = Run, Run, Run
single 3 date = February 7, 1964
single 4 = Where Did Our Love Go
single 4 date = June 17, 1964
single 5 = Baby Love
single 5 date = September 17, 1964
single 6 = Come See About Me
single 6 date = October 27, 1964

"Where Did Our Love Go" is a 1964album by Motown singing group The Supremes. The album, their second studio LP, 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, the highest ranking album by an "all female group." It remained in the #2 position for 4 weeks.

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 and a recorded live show from the Twenty Grand club in Detroit, Michigan.

Track listing

"All tracks written by Holland-Dozier-Holland except as noted."

ide one

#"Where Did Our Love Go"
#"Run, Run, Run"
#"Baby Love"
#"When the Lovelight Starts Shining Through His Eyes"
#"Come See About Me"
#"Long Gone Lover" (Smokey Robinson)

ide two

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

Personnel

* Diana Ross, Florence Ballard, Mary Wilson: lead vocals
* Florence Ballard, Mary Wilson: background vocals
* The Four Tops: background vocals on "When the Lovelight Starts Shining Through His Eyes" and "Run, Run, Run".
* Brian Holland, Lamont Dozier: producers on all tracks except noted below.
* Smokey Robinson: producer on "Long Gone Lover" and "A Breath Taking Guy"
* Norman Whitfield: producer on "He Means the World to Me"
* Robert Gordy: producer on "Your Kiss of Fire"
* The Funk Brothers: instrumentation

ingles history

*"A Breath Taking, First Sight Soul Shaking, One Night Love Making, Next Day Heart Breaking Guy" b/w "(The Man with the) Rock And Roll Banjo Band" (from "The Supremes Sing Country, Western and Pop") (Motown 1044, June 12, 1963, reissued immediately with a-side title shortened to "A Breath Taking Guy")
*"When The Lovelight Starts Shining Through His Eyes" b/w "Standing at the Crossroads of Love" (Motown 1051, October 31, 1963)
*"Run, Run, Run" b/w "I'm Giving You Your Freedom" (Motown 1054, February 7, 1964)
*"Where Did Our Love Go" b/w "He Means the World to Me" (Motown 1060, June 17, 1964)
*"Baby Love" b/w "Ask Any Girl" (Motown 1066, September 17, 1964)
*"Come See About Me" b/w "You're Gone, But Always in My Heart" (on "The Supremes Sing Holland-Dozier-Holland") (Motown 1068, October 27, 1964)

Chart history