Song
Baby Love
The Supremes
Album:
Where Did Our Love Go
Song meaning of Baby Love by The Supremes
"Baby Love" is a song by American music group The Supremes from their second studio album, Where Did Our Love Go. It was written and produced by Motown's main production team Holland–Dozier–Holland and released in 1964.
"Baby Love" topped the Billboard charts in the United States and in the United Kingdom singles chart concurrently.
At the insistence of Berry Gordy hoping for a follow-up chart-topper, Holland–Dozier–Holland produced "Baby Love" to sound like "Where Did Our Love Go" which previously topped the charts.
Elements were reincorporated into the single such as Diana Ross's cooing lead vocal and oohing, Florence Ballard and Mary Wilson's "baby-baby" backup, the Funk Brothers' instrumental track, and teenager Mike Valvano's footstomping.
The Motown song writing team of Holland-Dozier-Holland wrote this innocent song about teenage love, which was one of 14 US Top 10 hits for The Supremes.
One of the co-songwriters, Lamont Dozier told the NME in 1984 said this song was about "
"my first love who I never really got over." Dozier says many of the songs he wrote with Motown were inspired by her.
Diana Ross does not have a vast voice, but she could "Oooooh" like no-one else.
The first version of this song didn't have her oohing, but their record label boss, Berry Gordy requested the team back into the studio, where Ross did an extended "ooh-ooh-ooooh-oooooh" that kicked off the track. The Motown production team soon discovered, when she sang in a lower register, her voice was outstanding.
Baby Love lyrics by The Supremes
Ooh baby love, my baby love
I need you, oh how I need you
But all you do is treat me bad
Break my heart and leave me sad
Tell me, what did I do wrong
To make you stay away so long
'Cause baby love, my baby love
Been missing ya, miss kissing ya
Instead of breaking up
Let's do some kissing and making up
Don't throw our love away
In my arms, why don't you stay?
Need ya, need ya
Baby love, ooh, baby love
Baby love, my baby love
Why must we seperate, my love
All of my whole life through
I never loved no one but you
Why you do me like you do?
I get this need
Ooh, ooh, need to hold you
Once again, my love
Feel your warm embrace, my love
Don't throw our love away
Please don't do me this way
Not happy like I used to be
Loneliness has got the best of me
My love, my baby love
I need you, oh how I need you
Why you do me like you do
After I've been true to you
So deep in love with you
Baby, baby, ooh till it's hurtin' me
Till it's hurtin' me
Ooh, baby love
Don't throw our love away
Don't throw our love away
Release Date
1964
Songwriter/s
Holland-Dozier-Holland
Producer/s
Holland, Dozier
Label/s
Motown
