The Supremes Where Did Our Love Go - Motown MT 621 - 1964 NM/NM Orig. Shrink

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Label/Catalog Number:           Motown Records    MT 621

Condition: 
      Media:      NM  No apparent flaws. Labels in perfect shape. (see photos)     
      Sleeve:     NM  Original shrink wrap!! Original inner sleeve! No cover wear. No seam splits. No stains. Very, very small
                                 corner bend lower right corner.  Almost just like brought home from the record shop.  (see photos)
      Matrix:      Side 1:   RR4M-2197-1 (stamped)   (a symbol similar to a hieroglyphic)  
                         Side 2:   RR4M-219781 (stamped)   (a symbol similar to a hieroglyphic)  

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Tracklist
A1     Where Did Our Love Go     2:32
A2     Run, Run, Run     2:15
A3     Baby Love     2:34
A4     When The Lovelight Starts Shining Through His Eyes     2:34
A5     Come See About Me     2:39
A6     Long Gone Lover     2:20 
                Written-By – William Robinson
B1     I'm Giving You, Your Freedom     2:37
B2     A Breath Taking Guy    2:20
                Written-By – William Robinson
B3     He Means The World To Me   1:52
                Written-By – Norman Whitfield
B4     Standing At The Crossroads Of Love     2:27
B5     Your Kiss Of Fire   2:45
                Written-By – Gordy, Fuqua
B6     Ask Any Girl     3:01

Companies, etc.
    Pressed By – RCA Records Pressing Plant, Indianapolis
    Published By – Jobete
    Copyright (c) – Motown Record Corporation
Credits
    Liner Notes – Scott St. James
    Producer – Holland & Dozier
    Songwriter – Holland-Dozier-Holland (tracks: A1 to A5, B1, B4, B6)

Notes
Note: Mono covers (seen here) were also used for this release Where Did Our Love Go but have an updated "Stereo" sticker attached.
RCA Records Pressing Plant, Indianapolis pressing denoted by stamped trailing "I" in runouts.
Label: MT-621
Cover front top: MT 621
Cover front low right: 621
Cover Rear: 621

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Album Review
 A transitional album, as this combines some of their earlier minor hits like ‘Run, Run, Run‘ and ‘A Breath Taking Guy‘, alongside their Top 40 breakthrough ‘When The Lovelight Starts Shining Through His Eyes‘ and their trio of groundbreaking chart-toppers: ‘Where Did Our Love Go‘, ‘Baby Love‘ & ‘Come See About Me‘. The album cuts are all top-notch, culled from various recording sessions, with stand-outs including ‘Ask Any Girl‘ (the B-side to ‘Baby Love’), which could easily have been a hit in its own right, and ‘I’m Giving You Your Freedom‘, capturing an unusually earthy vocal from Diana Ross.

There’s much to savour here and this is a classic album by Motown’s finest.

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.

The Supremes are almost a text-book example of a “singles” rather than “albums” outfit.

Yet Where Did Our Love Go is a breathtaking capture of the metamorphosis of a group emerging out of the shadows to become one of the world’ leading pop acts, as exciting as any Beatles release of the time.

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