The song "Old Love [[Let's Try It Again)" was written by Brian Holland, Lamont Dozier and Freddie Gorman and published by Jobete on July 27, 1962.

The song has been recorded by a few Motown artists - and there was to have been a version by The Supremes but there's a story.

Brian and Lamont were in LA and on August 12, 1966 recorded several tracks which included "I'm Ready For Love" for Martha & The Vandellas, "Love Is Here and Now You're Gone" for The Supremes and "Old Love [[Let's Try It Again)" also for The Supremes. There seems also to be a song called "Come On" but I can't find any info about that - maybe that was a working title.

As an aside, recording backing tracks in LA seems to have been a no-no back then because of Musician's Union rules which required a vocalist. From what I've read, Motown made good use of The Lewis Sisters to stand in - whether they ever recorded any vocals on the above tracks is probably unlikely.

Anyhow as we know "I'm Ready For Love" and "Love Is Here" had their vocals added back in Detroit as did "Old Love" for which I've read both lead and background [[Andantes) vocals were recorded but erased when The Tops recorded their vocals.

Someone may have better information there because the dates for the "Old Love" Ross lead vocal October 25, 1966 and backing, November 17, 1966 seem to be exactly the same as the Tops version.

Whatever, only the Tops version survived - completed on March 8, 1967 - and though vaulted eventually saw the light of day on "Motown Sings Motown Treasures Volume 1 & 2 which was released on January 12, 2005.

Seems like a great recording by the Four Tops and The Andantes are really prominent in parts - so unlikely that their original backing vocals would have been recorded over.

Happy to receive info or corrections on any of the above.