Album: The Supremes A' Go-Go (1966)

Charted: 9

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• The love bug done bit me
  Didn't mean for him to get me
  Woo, get up in the morning
  And I'm filled with desire
  No, no, I can't stop the fire
  Love is real live wire
  Ooh, it's a burning sensation
  Far beyond imagination
  
  Love is like an itching in my heart
  Tearing it all apart
  Just an itching in my heart
  And, baby, I can't scratch it
  
  Keeps me sighing, ooh—oo—ooh
  Keeps me yearning
  No mama can't help me
  No daddy can't help me
  I've been bitten by the love bug
  And I need some information
  To help me out of this situation
  Now, when you're ill you take a pill
  When you're thirsty, drink your fill
  What you gonna do, oh yeah
  When love gets a hold, a hold on you
  
  Love is like an itching in my heart
  And, baby, I can't scratch it
  
  Love is a nagging irritation
  Causing my heart complication
  Love is a growing infection
  And I don't know the correction
  Got me rocking and a—reeling
  And I can't shake the feeling
  
  Love is like an itching in my heart
  Tearing it all apart
  Just an itching in my heart
  And, baby, I can't scratch it
  
  Keeps me silent, keeps me tired
  Keeps me yearning, keeps me burning
  Keeps me tossing, keeps me turning
  Keeps me yearning
  
  I've been bitten by the love bug
  And I need some information
  To help me out of this situation
  Love is a nagging irritation
  Causing my heart complication
  I've been bitten by the love bug Writer/s: Brian Holland, Edward Jr. Holland, Lamont Dozier
  Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
  Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 11

• Jerro from Delmont, PaCan you imagine the music videos that could've been made for the Supremes' songs if MTV and VH1 had existed during the late 1950s onward? I recently came up with a brilliant but crazy idea for a video, so try to imagine the following...
  
  The Supremes play patients in an asylum and they're in a room with many other patients, some of whom are in straitjackets. Diana steps up on top of a table, and Mary and Flo join her immediately after. They perform this song for all the patients who start dancing right away. The doctors and nurses who oversee the room order them all to stop singing and dancing; but eventually, they start dancing to the song along with the patients. ;)
• Jerro from Delmont, PaI became a huge fan of the Supremes after I turned 11. At the time, I listened to a radio station in Pittsburgh called 3WS which specialised in oldies music at the time whenever I was in the car with my folks. After becoming a fan and hearing so many of their hits on the radio, I learned that this song was a Top 10 hit on the Pop charts but wondered why the title was unfamiliar. Not too long after, I listened to 3WS one day and this song came on! It was then that I realised that I had heard this song many times before but never knew what the title was beforehand! ;)
• Barry from Sauquoit, Ny"Love is Like an Itching In My Heart" was track one of side one in the trio's ninth studio album, 'The Supremes A' Go-Go', and on October 22nd, 1966 the album peaked at #1 {for 2 weeks} on Billboard's Top 200 Albums chart, thus becoming the first album by a all-female group to reach #1 on the Top 200 Albums chart.
• Barry from Sauquoit, NyOn May 1st 1966, the Supremes performed "Love is Like an Itching In My Heart" on the CBS-TV program 'The Ed Sullivan Show'...
  One week earlier on April 24th, 1966 it entered Billboard's Hot Top 100 chart at position #62; and on May 22nd it peaked at #9 (for 1 week) and spent 8 weeks on the Top 100...
  It reached #7 on Billboard's R&B Singles chart...
  The trio's next four releases all peaked at #1; started with "You Can't Hurry Love", "You Keep Me Hangin' On", "Love Is Here and Now You're Gone", and finally "The Happening"...
  R.I.P. Mr. Ballard (1943 - 1976) and Mr. Sullivan (1901 - 1974).
• Randy from Fayettevile, ArBack in 1966 this was a big hit for The Supremes, even though it didn't hit #1 as most of their singles did. It was a really good song to dance to because of the heavy beat and the rhythm. The horns accentuated the beat very well. And it sounded like someone was whipping tire chains on the floor. Wild! This single was much more raw & gritty than the usual Supremes' material & hits to that point and proved they could really rock it up. Actually, I always thought it sounded like something Martha & The Vandellas would release. In other words, a powerful R&B rocker!
• Elmer H from Westville, OkMercy! The Supremes were "cooking" when this hit climbed the charts in '66. Those DRIVING DRUMS were just awesome. I still love this song because it's so raw & downright nasty that ya just cannot keep from dancing to it. Yep, it was a jukebox favorite when I was in college. I recall that most of the college bars in Lawrence, Kansas had this on their jukeboxes & it got the dudes & the dudettes to rocking & a-rolling. Everything about this hit was perfect------the Supremes, the drums, the brass, the beat, & the arrangement.
• Guy from Montréal, QcI loved that record back in 1966 and I still do but I always thought there was something a little weird about it. In fact, that tune was ten years ahead of its time. I was surprised nobody made a cover of it during the disco years.
• John from Nashville, TnThe four-on-the-floor beat of this record predates disco.
• Kristin from Bessemer, AlOnce the intro comes on, its very hard to sit still-Great dance tune!!
• Andre from The Bronx, NyDiana delivers!! This H-D-H song is a non-stop rock 'n' soul sensation from beginning to end. Like the song says, it's "burnin'"!! A real face-paced everybody-dance hit song. -- Dre
• Tanya from La Verne, CaA very cute tune by one of the best girl groups!

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