It was 57 years ago today (April 7th, 1964) that the
Supremes recorded their first chart topper, Where Did Our Love Go. As with many Supremes hits, Where Did Our Love Go was penned by the songwriting team of
Eddie Holland,
Brian Holland, and
Lamont Dozier but the song was not originally slated to be cut by the group. It was intended for the
Marvelettes, who were having a lot more chart success at the time than the Supremes or the
No-hit Supremes, as they were jokingly referred to in the early days of Motown. Where Did Our Love Go was originally written for
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President Abraham Lincoln, issued an act after the civil war and called it the Emancipation Proclamation. The only reason why the Civil War was fought and this act was passed is because of the termination of slavery, and African Americans wanted equal rights. Slavery was eventually abolished, but even after one hundred years later, Blacks still did not obtain equal rights. All African Americans didnât have an option to eat, drink, or use the restroom with whites. In 1955 they had enough with segregation, which had happened because the Civil Rights Movement was started. Blacks were abused, and even died for their cause, but yet they still refused to give up. The African Americans started civil disobedience and nonviolent protests to attempt for changing the minds of the whites that lived in the South. Leaders, that are now famous, took a stand and shared their input of racism to bring change and accep
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What the world needs now is love, sweet love and compassion. In 1966, Four Tops, Motown’s second-greatest male vocal group, after the Temptations, delivered both with their signature hit, “Reach Out I’ll Be There.” As the U.S. was suffering from the heightened trauma of a deadly global pandemic and racial reckoning last year (conditions that continue to plague the country in 2021), then-Democratic Presidential candidate Joe Biden chose it for his campaign soundtrack. If you pay attention to the lyrics, it’s easy to see why he found it such an appropriate song for the times.