Originally Posted by
BigAl
I think the gals were just very weary of struggling and felt that "Where Did Our Love Go" was going to be just another wasted effort. They had made a tepid Billboard pop chart showing with "Lovelight" [[#23, but #2 briefly on the Cash Box R&B chart) but then bombed with "Run Run Run." To their sensibilities, "Where Did Our Love Go" was nothing special so they went into it half-heartedly. Even after it struck gold, when they were subsequently presented with "Baby Love," they felt that it, too, was just more of the same. Most of us have heard the first take of that one, and it's completely without energy. [[I can only imagine what the first takes of "Where Did Our Love Go" must have sounded like.) By the time they were handed "Come See About Me," I think they knew their place on the charts was more assured and you can hear the difference in the energy there. The background harmonies are more like those in "A Breathtaking Guy," which was recorded at a time when they were more hopeful, before they had become so discouraged.
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