Top Ten Songs of the Summer
#8 – The Supremes – ‘Where Did Our Love Go’ (1964)
Given that 1964 was the year of Beatlemania, I would have expected one of their massive hits to claim that year’s Song of the Summer throne. But the closest they got was ‘A Hard Day’s Night’ reaching #4 on the summer chart.
It’s all a matter of hitting a nerve between Memorial Day and Labor Day, the rest of the year be damned.
The winner that year was another classic tune, The Supremes’ ‘Where Did Our Love Go.’ This was the girl group’s first #1 hit, and it has all the hallmarks of their peerless sound.
Dina Ross sang lead vocals, though producers thought the song might be better suited to Mary Wilson. Instead, Ross sang it in a lower register. The trio would have five more #1 hits over the next year with Ross as their leader, so I guess that was a pretty good call.
Baby, baby
Baby, don’t leave me
Ooh, please don’t leave me
All by myself
[Verse 2]
I’ve got this burning, burning, yearning
Feelin’ inside me
Ooh, deep inside me
And it hurts so bad
[Verse 3]
You came into my heart (Baby, baby)
So tenderly (Where did our love go?)
With a burning love (Baby, baby)
That stings like a bee (Baby, baby, ooh, baby, baby)
[Verse 4]
Now that I surrender (Baby, baby)
So helplessly (Where did our love go?)
You now wanna leave (Baby, baby)
Ooh, you wanna leave me (Baby, baby, ooh, baby, baby)
[Chorus]
Ooh, baby, baby (Baby, baby)
Where did our love go?
Ooh, don’t you want me? (Baby, baby)
Don’t you want me no more? (Baby, baby, ooh, baby, baby)
Ooh, baby
[Chorus]
Baby, baby
Where did our love go?
And all your promises (Baby, baby)
Of a love forever more (Baby, baby, ooh, baby, baby)
[Verse 5]
I’ve got this burning, burning, yearning (Baby, baby)
Feelin’ inside me (Where did our love go?)
Ooh, deep inside me (Baby, baby)
And it hurts so bad (Baby, baby, ooh, baby, baby)
[Verse 6]
Before you won my heart (Baby, baby)
You were a perfect guy (Where did our love go?)
But now that you got me (Baby, baby)
You wanna leave me behind (Baby, baby)
[Verse 7]
Ooh, baby, baby, baby (Baby, baby)
Baby, don’t leave me (Where did our love go?)
Ooh, please don’t leave me (Baby, baby)
All by myself, ooh (Baby, baby, ooh, baby, baby)
[Outro]
Baby, baby (Baby, baby)
Where did our love go?
Meet Me In Montauk 
“A Hard Day’s Night” may have been the “Espresso” of 1964, although the Supremes classic is certainly more worthy than the songs taking that honor this year.