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That’s What Love Is Made Of was a 1964 hit song by Motown’s original vocal group, The Miracles, issued on the label’s Tamla records subsidiary (Tamla 54102). It was taken from the group’s album Greatest Hits from the Beginning, but originally appeared on their abortive 1964 album, I Like It Like That. Written by Miracles members Smokey Robinson, Bobby Rogers, and Pete Moore, this song was a Billboard Top 40 Pop hit, peaking at # 35, and a Top 10 Billboard R&B hit, peaking at # 9. A showcase for poetic word-play, The Miracles utilized several famous nursery rhymes in this song . In fact, the song’s title itself is a variation of the rhyme : “What Are Little Girls/Little Boys Made Of?“ . Parts of this famous rhyme were incorporated into the lyrics of this song, which, like... Read on...