Baby Love: Mike Valvano's Foot Stomps and the Supremes' UK No. 1 in 1964

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After Where Did Our Love Go became a smash in 1964, Berry Gordy told Brian Holland, Lamont Dozier and Eddie Holland to deliver a follow-up for the Supremes that deliberately sounded like it. Baby Love kept Diana Ross's breathy cooing and the baby-baby backing vocals of Florence Ballard and Mary Wilson, while the writers worked on texture. In Studio A the Funk Brothers supplied James Jamerson's melodic bass, a baritone saxophone solo from Mike Terry and Jack Ashford's vibraphone, and teenager Mike Valvano stomped on the wooden floorboards for the beat.

Released in September 1964, Baby Love reached No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 in late October and held it for four weeks, also topping the Cash Box R&B chart. It made the Supremes the first Motown act with more than one U.S. No. 1 and was the second of five straight chart-toppers. In Britain it held No. 1 for two weeks until the Rolling Stones' Little Red Rooster replaced it. It was nominated for a 1965 Grammy for best rhythm and blues recording but lost to Nancy Wilson's How Glad I Am.

Ballard and Wilson sing brief solo ad-libs near the end, before Ross became the sole voice on the group's 1960s singles.
From 1963 to 1965 only Baby Love and two Roy Orbison records were American singles to top the UK chart.
Rolling Stone ranked it No. 324 among the 500 greatest songs, then No. 499 in the 2021 update.
It is certified gold in the U.S. and platinum in the UK, and appears on the 1975 Cooley High soundtrack.
Honey Bane took a cover onto the UK chart in 1981, and Yugoslav singer Bebi Dol released a synth-pop version in 1986.

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