Motown Classic !! 1964 50 years ago exactly, the group they had called the “no-hit Supremes” were well on the way to becoming the hottest act in America. With ‘Where Did Our Love Go’ just a week away from completing its climb to No. 1 in the US, and the need for a Supremes album becoming urgent, August 13, 1964 is the day the ‘Baby Love’ legend is born…but as Motown collectors know, it’s a song that was first cut the month before, when it got the thumbs down from the boss. The first version of ‘Baby Love’ had been recorded about three weeks earlier, on July 24, but as Berry Gordy wrote in his 1995 autobiography ‘To Be Loved’: “When H-D-H finished it the first time, I said ‘It’s great, but it has no life, there’s no gimmick here…of course they disagreed with me. But they went back into the studio and re-cut it. And at the beginning, they put in the little thing, ooh-ooh-ooh – that little bit. And I said, that’s perfect!” Brian Holland’s recollection was that the production triumvirate had come to that conclusion anyway. “When we cut ‘Baby Love’ the first time, it was a little too slow,” he said. “We wanted to add a little more pep to it.”
Posted on: Thu, 14 Aug 2014 21:06:46 +0000
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