Where Did Our Love Go

by The Supremes

Overview

Even though this long-player was the second collection to have featured the original Supremes lineup with Mary Wilson, Florence Ballard and Diana Ross, Where Did Our Love Go (1964) was the first to significantly impact the radio-listening and record-buying public. It effectively turned the trio -- who were called the 'No-Hit Supremes' by Motown insiders -- into one of the label's most substantial acts of the 1960s. Undoubtedly, their success was at least in part due to an influx of fresh material from the formidable composing/production team of Brian Holland, Lamont Dozier and Eddie Holland (HDH). They had already proven themselves by presenting "(Your Love Is Like A) Heatwave" to Martha & the Vandellas and providing Marvin Gaye with "Can I Get a Witness." Motown-head Berry Gordy hoped HDH could once again strike gold -- and boy, did they ever. Equally as impressive is that the Supremes were among the handful of domestic acts countering the initial onslaught of the mid-'60s British Invasion with a rapid succession of four Top 40 sides. Better still, "Where Did Our Love Go," "Baby Love" and "Come See About Me" made it all the way to the top, while "When the Lovelight Starts Shining Through His Eyes" (number 23), "Run, Run, Run" (number 93) and "A Breath Taking Guy" (number 75) were able to garner enough airplay and sales to make it into the Top 100 Pop Singles survey. HDH weren't the only contributors to the effort, as William "Smokey" Robinson supplied the catchy doo wop influenced "Long Gone Lover," as well as the aforementioned "Breath Taking Guy." Norman Whitfield penned the mid-tempo ballad "He Means The World to Me," and former Moonglow Harvey Fuqua co-wrote "Your Kiss of Fire." With such a considerable track list, it is no wonder Where Did Our Love Go landed in the penultimate spot on the Pop Album chart for four consecutive weeks in September of '64 -- making it the best received LP from Motown to date. In 2004, the internet-based Hip-O Select issued the double-disc Where Did Our Love Go [Expanded 40th Anniversary Edition] in a limited pressing of 10,000 copies. The package included the monaural and stereo mixes, plus a never before available seven-song vintage live set from the Twenty Grand Club in Detroit and another 17 unreleased studio cuts documented around the same time. ~ Lindsay Planer

Product Details

Release Date:	11/24/2022
Label:	Elemental Music
UPC:	8435395503324

Album Credits

Performance Credits

The Supremes   Primary Artist
Diana Ross & the Supremes   Primary Artist
The Love-Tones   Vocals (Background)
The Four Tops   Vocals (Background)
James Jamerson   Bass
Earl Van Dyke   Piano
Florence Ballard   Vocals,Vocals (Background)
Eddie Willis   Guitar
Uriel Jones   Drums
Joe Messina   Guitar
Richard "Pistol" Allen   Drums
Mike Valvano   Foot Stomping
Mary Wilson   Vocals,Vocals (Background)
Diana Ross   Vocals
Henry Cosby   Sax (Tenor)
Jack Ashford   Vibraphone
Holland-Dozier-Holland   Vocals (Background)
Andrew "Mike" Terry   Sax (Baritone)
Robert White   Guitar

Technical Credits

Don Covay   Composer
Bob Merrill   Composer,Composer
Faye Hale   Composer,Producer
Berry Gordy, Jr.   Composer,Producer
Ivy Jo Hunter   Composer,Producer
Lamont Dozier   Composer,Producer
Barrett Strong   Composer
Claudette Robinson   Composer
Eddie Holland   Composer
Ed Cobb   Composer
Robert Gordy   Composer,Producer
Jule Styne   Composer
R. Parker   Composer
Brian Holland   Composer,Producer
Arthur Schwartz   Composer
Stevie Wonder   Composer
Thom Bell   Composer
Burt Bacharach   Composer
Harvey Fuqua   Composer
William "Mickey" Stevenson   Composer,Producer
William Weatherspoon   Composer
Hal David   Composer
Ivory Joe Hunter   Composer
Dorothy Fields   Composer
Johnny Bristol   Composer
Smokey Robinson   Composer,Producer
Linda Creed   Composer
Norman Whitfield   Composer,Producer
Holland-Dozier-Holland   Composer
George Flower   Composer,Producer
Andre Williams   Composer,Producer
William Stevenson   Composer
James Brown   Composer
Fay Hale   Composer,Producer
George Fowler   Composer,Producer