27 October, 1964.

A nice bit of classic Motown this morning and definitely some shuffling around the kitchen to go with it.

Written and produced by Motown’s main songwriting and production team Holland–Dozier–Holland, this was originally included on the album Where Did Our Love Go, released in August 1964, and whilst the Supremes were the first to record the track, they weren’t the first to release it as a single.

Not long after the album was released, US soul singer and actress Nella Dodds recorded a cover version of the song that started selling almost immediately, climbing to number seventy-four on the US Billboard chart. In response, Motown rushed out a release of the Supremes version as a single in October 1964 and as a result, sales of Dodd’s version stalled.

On its release the song became the third of five consecutive Supremes singles to hit the number one spot in the US. It actually topped the chart twice, the first time in December 1964 before it was replaced by I Feel Fine by the Beatles, then three weeks later, in January 1965, it knocked the Beatles off the top spot and returned to number one.

Here in the UK it spent sixteen weeks on the chart and peaked at number twenty-seven.