Where Did Our Love Go
Je Voulais Te Dire
We had our first double a-side that peaked at 40 in 1960, the first year that position existed in the charts. It's taken another 18 years to get to our second.
Manhattan Transfer are yet another act to have both a number 1 and a number 40 to their name. Their number 1 came the previous year with "Chanson D'Amour". That would be their only hit to make the Top 10.
This was hit number 6 for them. All their hits to this point had been covers and this was no exception. We had "Where Did Our Love Go" which was a cover of the Supremes and "Je Voulais Te Dire" which was a cover of "Michel Jonasz".
Being composers of "Where Did Our Love Go", it meant Holland-Dozier-Holland became the second songwriting team to score 2 number 40s after Burt Bacharach/Hal David.
The vocalist on "Je Voulais Te Dire", Laurel Masse, would leave the group the following year. It wasn't the last we'd see of them in the charts though, they had further hits with "Twilight Zone" in 1980 and "Spice Of Life" in 1984, which unlike their predecessors were original compositions.
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