Where Did Our Love Go (album)

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Where Did Our Love Go

Studio album by The Supremes
Released	August 31, 1964
Recorded	December 28, 1962–July 13, 1964
Genre	Pop/soul
Length	31:35
Label	Motown M 621
Producer(s)	Brian Holland Lamont Dozier Smokey Robinson Norman Whitfield Robert Gordy
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The Supremes chronology
Meet the Supremes (1962)	Where Did Our Love Go (1963)	A Bit of Liverpool (1964)

Where Did Our Love Go is a 1964 album 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.

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.

1 Track listing
- 1.1 Side one
- 1.2 Side two
2 Personnel
3 Singles history
4 Chart history

[edit] Track listing

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

[edit] Side 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)

[edit] Side two

"I'm Giving You Your Freedom"
"A Breath Taking 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"

[edit] Personnel

Diana Ross: 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

[edit] Singles 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)

[edit] Chart history

Name	Chart (1963 - 1965)	Peak position
Where Did Our Love Go	U.S. Pop Albums Chart	2
Where Did Our Love Go	U.S. R&B Albums Chart	1
"A Breath Taking Guy"	U.S. Billlboard Pop Singles	75
"When the Lovelight Starts Shining Through His Eyes"	U.S. Billboard Pop Singles	23
"When the Lovelight Starts Shining Through His Eyes"	U.S. Cashbox R&B Singles	2
"Run, Run, Run"	U.S. Billboard Pop Singles	93
"Run, Run, Run"	U.S. Cashbox R&B Singles	22
"Where Did Our Love Go"	U.S. Billboard Pop Singles	1
"Where Did Our Love Go"	U.S. Cashbox R&B Singles	1
"Where Did Our Love Go"	UK Singles Chart	3
"Baby Love"	U.S. Billboard Pop Singles	1
"Baby Love"	U.S. Cashbox R&B Singles	1
"Baby Love"	UK Singles Chart	1
"Come See About Me"	U.S. Billboard Pop Singles	1
"Come See About Me"	U.S. Billboard R&B Singles	2
"Come See About Me"	UK Singles Chart	27