"Love Bug Leave My Heart Alone" is a song by Motown girl group Martha and the Vandellas, released as a single in 1967.
The song's production was a departure from the Vandellas' repertoire as their label, Motown, was having a harder time staying with the times in the music industry and having a much harder time finding a hit for its acts after several departures including Vandellas collaborators William "Mickey" Stevenson and Holland-Dozier-Holland, who produced the B-side to this single, "One Way Out", one of the trio's final recordings with the Vandellas.
Produced by Richard Morris, the song displayed of the narrator wanting "the love bug" (i.e., her former lover) to leave her alone so she won't "fall in love".
The narrator, lead singer Martha Reeves, was left heart-broken the last time she allowed the man to come back to her but after suffering heartbreak, she expresses her disgust at the man's attempts, with her fellow members Rosalind Ashford and Betty Kelly chanting "get outta there, love bug, leave my heart alone".
[1] The record was the first track ever played on BBC Radio 1 by DJ John Peel.