Where Did Our Love Go [Deluxe Edition]

Supremes | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (November 13, 2006)
• Original Release Date: 1964
• Number of Discs: 2
• Format: Deluxe Edition
• Label: Hip-O Select
• ASIN: B000BPGJIQ
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette  |  Vinyl
• Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #204,275 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

Disc: 1

1. Where Did Our Love Go

2. Run, Run, Run

3. Baby Love

4. When The Lovelight Starts Shining Through His Eyes

5. Come See About Me

6. Long Gone Lover

7. I'm Giving You Your Freedom

8. A Breathtaking Guy

9. He Means The World To Me

10. Standing At The Crossroads Of Love

See all 24 tracks on this disc

Disc: 2

1. This Is It

2. I'm The Exception To The Rule

3. Everyday I'll Love You More Than Yesterday

4. Beginning To Ending

5. Mr. Blues

6. Come On Boy

7. Bye Baby

8. My Imagination

9. I Idolize You

10. You're Gonna Come To Me version 3

See all 27 tracks on this disc

Editorial Reviews

Disc 1 features both the mono and stereo versions of the album first issued in August 1964. The mono edition is now on CD for the first time ever. Disc 2 contains 19 rare and unreleased songs from the sessions that were recorded for the album - plus, from the same recording timeline, tracks for the album The Supremes Sing Ballads And Blues, a project that ultimately went unfinished. Yes. This expanded edition includes another bonus: The Supremes' complete "homecoming" show, at Detroit's Twenty Grand nightclub, recorded upon their return from the Dick Clark Caravan Of Stars just as "Where Did Our Love Go" was on its way to Number One. While brief, this is their complete performance from the show, and not only captures the moment of the Supremes' ascent but also their only recorded live performance of "A Breath Taking Guy," and the much sought-after live version of "People," led by Florence Ballard. The lovely packaging includes a booklet with many rare and unseen photographs, a detailed essay and a recording timeline. Featured in the essay are quotes from the people who made the record and influenced its success: Brian Holland, Lamont Dozier, Edward Holland, Dick Clark, Janie Bradford, and, yes, Mary Wilson, Florence Ballard and Diana Ross. Where Did Our Love Go took Motown to a whole new level of sales, visibility and respectability. The Supremes, as Motown's flagship, became the most successful female group in the world. This expanded edition tells the story of how it happened, and the determination of three teenage girls (formerly) known as the 'no-hit' Supremes. Looking back, Lamont Dozier tells us, "Diana Ross was the best. She will go down in history as one of the best. Mary and Florence were there adding to the spice. This particular recipe called the Supremes came together because everybody had the right elements, the right seasonings, and the right flavors to make it happen."

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

27 of 27 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars MANDATORY FOR SUPREMES FANS, June 9, 2006

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D.V. Lindner "D.V. Lindner" (King George, VA, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Where Did Our Love Go (Audio CD)

You're looking at the most successful non-greatest hits album in Motown's catalog from 1964 until Marvin Gaye's "What's Going On" came along in mid-1971. Originally LP number 621, Motown lists its release date as August 31, 1964. That jibes with my memory as a 10-year-old at the time, and I recall seeing it in records stores just before school started up again ( 5th grade for me ) after that wonderful summer. The album's title track had been a massive hit over those vacation months, putting the Supremes name on the lips of every teen and pre-teen whose ears caught it. This was no easy feat given the chart competition at the time - the Beatles had only begun to storm America that January, and Where Did Our Love Go shared chart company with A Hard Day's Night by summer. But the appeal of the record was irresistible and all of us just about played the 45 till the grooves were flat.

According to the liner notes, the next hit, even larger, barely made it to the album in time for release. An earlier, slower version of "Baby Love" ( included on the second disc ) was re-recorded in a slightly upbeat version at Berry Gordy's instruction, made it into the album, and was released as 45 too on Sept. 17. This Supremes fan, to this day, remembers exactly where I was ( a clothing department store ) the first time I heard it over a radio. It spent four weeks at No. 1 on Billboard, and Come See About Me was right on its heels, giving the Supremes three No. 1's in a row, all on the same album. ( By mid 1965, the number would be five in a row ). Come the New Year, in any home with young people, the Supremes were now a household word. If soul music had its own "Meet The Beatles" that year, "Where Did Our Love Go" is surely it, and its historic value and still-undiminished pleasures cannot be overstated.

The brief `coming home' concert on the second, bonus disc is of particular interest too. Berry Gordy hadn't yet begun the habit of having the group's hits rearranged to sound like Vegas show tunes for their stage shows, something that always disappointed teen buyers of their live albums. Here however, "Where" and it's modestly successful antecedents, "Lovelight Shining Through His Eyes" and "A Breath Taking Guy" are given sincere and unhurried readings, sonically faithful to the studio versions.

Hip-O Select's painstaking and loving approach to historic Motown material is the best thing to happen to soul music since Rhino tackled Aretha's classic Atlantic recordings in the early `90s. My vinyl versions of this album, stereo and mono, are still in capable shape ( yes I have the 45s too ), but whether or not you still have your own, the re-issue of this Motown milestone ( especially the mono version ) on wear-proof and indestructible CD amounts to the group themselves summoning you to the `record store' again, as they surely did the first time you ever heard "Baby Love" on the radio too.

12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great to hear original mono version of this landmark Motown LP, January 16, 2007

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John Doe "jdoesmith85210" (mesa, AZ) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Where Did Our Love Go (Audio CD)

Great to finally hear this album in it's original monophonic spendor after 40 plus years. Almost like listening to the actual 33 1/3 vinyl release, which I still have a copy of! Not too cleaned-up and remastered to death, like most Motown compilations currently on CD. Hope more original MONO and 45RPM mixes will find their way onto CD.

11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars What A Treat For Supremes Fans, June 6, 2007

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Louis R. Cappello "oldieslou" (Portland, Or.) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Where Did Our Love Go (Audio CD)

I know this CD is a little pricey now,but well worth it!
If your a fan get it before it becomes A CD on E-Bay auction. Disc 2 is worth the price alone of early Supremes singing as a true group many gems and on top of that you get the 12 track album in mono (sounds wonderful)and in stereo. Dig into your pocket for this one don't miss out on this limited release, I'm very glad I did.