The Supremes: Love Is Like an Itching in My Heart

Remarks:

This went to #7 on the American R&B charts in 1966 – low for the Supremes. It did not chart in Britain. It is a Holland-Dozier-Holland song. I noticed that it sounds good even over bad speakers. Maybe that is on purpose since back then it had to sound good over AM radio on cheap transistor radios. Like how “The Twilight Zone” is made to look good on small screen black-and-white televisions.

This song appeared before in this space as a 1989 cover by the Good Girls.

See also:

• The Supremes: I Hear A Symphony (1965)
  
• The Supremes: Stoned Love (1970)
• Diana Ross: Theme from Mahogany (Do Y ou Know Where You’re Going To) (1975)

Lyrics:

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 a real life wire
Ooh, it’s a burning sensation
Far behind 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
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 this situation

Now, when you’re ill
You take a pill
When your thirsty
Drink your fill
What you gonna do
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 rockin’ and areelin’
And I can’t shake the feelin’

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
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 this situation
Love is a nagging irritation
Causing my heart complication

I’ve been bitten by the love bug…