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Looking Back At Some Classics - Music Head - 02-11-2012
#475 - Supremes - Where Did Our Love Go - 1964
running recap for me - 3's=16, 2's=7, 1's=3
this one - ***
from the album: Where Did Our Love Go
Written by Holland/Dozier/Holland
Produced by Brian Holland, Lamont Dozier
Chart action: #1 US, #3 UK, #1 Canada
the players:
Diana Ross - lead vocal
Florence Ballard - backing vocals
Mary Wilson - backing vocals
Funk Brothers - all instruments
[video=youtube;izzKUoxL11E]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izzKUoxL11E[/video]
From the groups second album and it took them to the top. The first of five consecutive #1 songs. The song was
turned down by Motowns other top selling female act, the Marvelettes. The Supremes weren't crazy about the song
either, but yielded to the label heads. Eddie Holland wanted Mary Wilson to sing lead on the song but Motown chief
Berry Gordy had already decided that Diana Ross was the top dog of the group. The album was released months after
the single had hit the top and the group was on its way to being the best selling girl group of the sixties. Nice
live clip for the song.
Lyrics
Baby, baby
Baby don't leave me
Ooh, please don't leave me
All by myself
I've got this yearning, burning
Yearning feelin' inside me
Ooh, deep inside me
And it hurts so bad
You came into my heart
So tenderly
With a burning love
That stings like a bee
Now that I surrender
So helplessly
You now wanna leave
Ooh, you wanna leave me
Ooh, baby, baby
Where did our love go?
Ooh, don't you want me
Don't you want me no more
Ooh, baby
Baby, baby
Where did our love go
And all your promisses
Of a love forever more
I've got this yearning, burning
Yearning feelin' inside me
Ooh, deep inside me
And it hurts so bad
Before you won my heart
You were a perfect guy
But now that you got me
You wanna leave me behind
Baby, baby, ooh baby
Baby, baby don't leave me
Ooh, please don't leave me
All by myself
Ooh, baby, baby
Where did our love go?
Looking Back At Some Classics - CRAZY-HORSE - 02-11-2012
great,great song IMO Music Head...
reminds me of a great cover version of it also
[video=youtube;P3b_Qq3GYmY]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P3b_Qq3GYmY[/video]
Looking Back At Some Classics - Mrrusty1 - 02-11-2012
yes Diana Ross is one of my alltime favourite motown stars
Music Head Wrote:#475 - Supremes - Where Did Our Love Go - 1964
running recap for me - 3's=16, 2's=7, 1's=3
this one - ***
from the album: Where Did Our Love Go
Written by Holland/Dozier/Holland
Produced by Brian Holland, Lamont Dozier
Chart action: #1 US, #3 UK, #1 Canada
the players:
Diana Ross - lead vocal
Florence Ballard - backing vocals
Mary Wilson - backing vocals
Funk Brothers - all instruments
[video=youtube;izzKUoxL11E]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izzKUoxL11E[/video]
From the groups second album and it took them to the top. The first of five consecutive #1 songs. The song was
turned down by Motowns other top selling female act, the Marvelettes. The Supremes weren't crazy about the song
either, but yielded to the label heads. Eddie Holland wanted Mary Wilson to sing lead on the song but Motown chief
Berry Gordy had already decided that Diana Ross was the top dog of the group. The album was released months after
the single had hit the top and the group was on its way to being the best selling girl group of the sixties. Nice
live clip for the song.
Lyrics
Baby, baby
Baby don't leave me
Ooh, please don't leave me
All by myself
I've got this yearning, burning
Yearning feelin' inside me
Ooh, deep inside me
And it hurts so bad
You came into my heart
So tenderly
With a burning love
That stings like a bee
Now that I surrender
So helplessly
You now wanna leave
Ooh, you wanna leave me
Ooh, baby, baby
Where did our love go?
Ooh, don't you want me
Don't you want me no more
Ooh, baby
Baby, baby
Where did our love go
And all your promisses
Of a love forever more
I've got this yearning, burning
Yearning feelin' inside me
Ooh, deep inside me
And it hurts so bad
Before you won my heart
You were a perfect guy
But now that you got me
You wanna leave me behind
Baby, baby, ooh baby
Baby, baby don't leave me
Ooh, please don't leave me
All by myself
Ooh, baby, baby
Where did our love go?
Looking Back At Some Classics - Music Head - 02-11-2012
had forgotten about the Soft Cell cover
a rare love rating for a cover
Looking Back At Some Classics - SteveO - 02-11-2012
Playing catch up here...not big on The Strokes, ok song! As for the Smiths great band and I like the tune!
Looking Back At Some Classics - SteveO - 02-11-2012
Not one of my favorite Supremes songs! I'm sure they have a few rated higher to come!
Looking Back At Some Classics - Music Head - 03-11-2012
looks like I skipped one people, sorry
#476 - Aretha Franklin - Do Right Woman, Do Right Man - 1967
running recap for me - 3's=16, 2's=7, 1's=3
this one - ***
from the album: I Never Loved A Man The Way I Love You
Written by Chips Moman, Dan Penn
Produced by Jerry Wexler
Chart action: #9 US
the players:
Aretha Franklin - vocal
other people - other stuff
The Queen in her prime. Not my favorite Aretha track but it works just as well. Aretha walked out of the Muscle
Shoals session when this was being recorded, after her manager/husband got into it with the studio manager. They
split and the song wasn't finished till weeks later at a New York session. Says the song reached #9 here, but then
says it was released as the b-side to I Never Loved A Man The Way I Love You. If that was the a-side, wouldn't that
chart ranking be based on that? Never understood how that worked. Nice clip from the Merv Griffin show in 1967.
[video=youtube;N1MW6xXjW8g]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1MW6xXjW8g[/video]
Lyrics
Take me to heart
And I'll always love you
And nobody
Can make me do wrong
Take me for granted
Leaving love unsure
Makes willpower weak
And temptation strong
A woman's only human
You should understand
She's not just a plaything
She's flesh and blood just like her man
If you want to do right all day's woman
You've gotta be a do right all night man
Yeah, yeah, they say that it's a man's world
But you can't prove that by me
And as long as we're together, baby
Show some respect for me
If you want to do right all day's woman
You've gotta be a do right all night man
A woman's only human
This you should understand
She's not just a plaything
She's flesh and blood just like her man
If you want to do right all day's woman
You've gotta be a do right all night man
You've gotta be a do right all night man
Looking Back At Some Classics - CRAZY-HORSE - 03-11-2012
Ahhh....Aretha, The Queen Of Soul ***
Looking Back At Some Classics - Music Head - 04-11-2012
#474 - Van Morrison - Into The Mystic - 1970
running recap for me - 3's=16, 2's=8, 1's=3
this one - **
from the album: Moondance
Written by Van Morrison
Produced by Van Morrison
Chart action: not released as a single
the players on the album:
Van Morrison – vocals, guitar, rhythm guitar, tambourine, harmonica,
Jack Schroer – alto and soprano saxophones
Collin Tilton – flute, tenor saxophone
Jef Labes – organ, piano, clavinet
John Platania – guitar, rhythm guitar
John Klingberg – bass
Gary Mallaber – drums, vibraphone
Guy Masson – conga
Not released as a single. Been wondering if those were considered. Well it is greatest songs, not greatest singles.
Sure opens up the possibilities. Don't think this tune would show up in my list. A good one, but not great. When
asked the meaning of the song, Van didn't have one. No comment here. This is from Van's third album. Critically
acclaimed and on many best of lists, but sales didn't match that. I sometimes forget we're talking song and not
album when I'm doing these. They kind of run together for me. Van dumped his musicians that were used for the
previous Astral Weeks album, picking up an all new cast. After purchasing a new home in Woodstock, he was starting
fresh.
[video=youtube;6RHTb-WE4zo]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6RHTb-WE4zo[/video]
Lyrics
We were born before the wind
Also younger than the sun
Ere the bonnie boat was won as we sailed into the mystic
Hark, now hear the sailors cry
Smell the sea and feel the sky
Let your soul and spirit fly into the mystic
And when that fog horn blows I will be coming home
And when the fog horn blows I want to hear it
I don't have to fear it
And I want to rock your gypsy soul
Just like way back in the days of old
And magnificently we will flow into the mystic
When that fog horn blows you know I will be coming home
And when that fog horn whistle blows I got to hear it
I don't have to fear it
And I want to rock your gypsy soul
Just like way back in the days of old
And together we will flow into the mystic
Come on girl...
Too late to stop now...
Looking Back At Some Classics - CRAZY-HORSE - 04-11-2012
"moondance" is an awesome album, full of great songs IMO.album gets ***, this one,like you gets **