Where Did Our Love Go is the second studio album by Motown singing group The Supremes, released in 1964. The album 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. Where Did Our Love Go remained in the #2 position for 4 consecutive weeks in January 1965, shut out of the top spot by the Beatles' blockbuster Beatles '65 album, and remained on the Billboard album chart for an unprecedented 89 weeks. According to Motown data, the album ultimately sold over 3,000,000 copies. This album was also the first ever number one album on Billboard's R&B album chart in January 1965. (More from Wikipedia)
Holland-Dozier-Holland is a songwriting powerhouse; besides writing some of Motown's best-known hits, they wrote most of the songs on entire albums for some of the biggest stars on the label. For the Supremes' second album Where Did Our Love Go (1964), not only did Holland-Dozier-Holland write the group's three Number 1 hits that appear on the album (as well as 10 of their 12 Number 1 hits overall) – "Where Did Our Love Go", "Baby Love", and "Come See About Me" – they also wrote 5 of the 9 other songs on the album. About Where Did Our Love Go, Wikipedia says: "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. It was the album that introduced 'The Motown Sound' to the masses. It was also, at the time, the highest ranking album by an all female group."
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