A Breathtaking Guy

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“A Breathtaking Guy”
Single by The Supremes
from the album Where Did Our Love Go
Released June 12, 1963
Format 7" single
Recorded Hitsville USA (Studio A); 1963
Genre Soul
Length 2:26
Label Motown
M 1044
Writer(s) Smokey Robinson
Producer Smokey Robinson
The Supremes singles chronology
"Let Me Go the Right Way"
(1962)		 "A Breathtaking Guy"
(1963)		 "When the Lovelight Starts Shining Through His Eyes"
(1963)

"A Breathtaking Guy" is a 1963 song written and produced by Smokey Robinson and released by Motown singing group The Supremes. The single was originally set to be released under the title, "A Breath Taking, First Sight Soul Shaking, One Night Love Making, Next Day Heartbreaking Guy" but was shortened just before its official release despite the fact that all three Supremes members - Diana Ross, Florence Ballard and Mary Wilson sung the chorus with the original title together.

One of the rare singles to feature the Supremes singing all lead vocals at one point, it also was their highest charting single at this point, reaching number 75 on the Billboard Hot 100. The group was jokingly referred to at this time as the "no-hit Supremes" by the Motown staff. However, their next single, "When the Lovelight Starts Shining Through His Eyes", would break the group's "no-hit" streak.

Much like their earlier single, "Your Heart Belongs to Me", Smokey Robinson produced the song with the same sound that had provided hit singles for early Motown star Mary Wells. The Supremes would sing background for Wells on her hit "You Lost the Sweetest Boy" with The Temptations.

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