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| "Baby I Need Your Loving" | ||||
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 Side A of the Australian single | ||||
| Single by Four Tops | ||||
| from the album Four Tops | ||||
| B-side | "Call on Me" | |||
| Released | July 10, 1964 | |||
| Recorded | July 8, 1964 | |||
| Studio | Hitsville U.S.A. (Studio A) | |||
| Genre | Pop[1] | |||
| Length | 2:45 | |||
| Label | Motown | |||
| Songwriter(s) | Holland–Dozier–Holland | |||
| Producer(s) | Brian Holland, Lamont Dozier | |||
| Four Tops singles chronology | ||||
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"Baby I Need Your Loving" is a 1964 hit single recorded by the Four Tops for the Motown label. Written and produced by Motown's main production team Holland–Dozier–Holland,[2] the song was the group's first Motown single and their first pop Top 20 hit, making it to number 11 on the US Billboard Hot 100 and number four in Canada in the fall of 1964. It was also their first million-selling hit single.
Cash Box described it as "an intriguing rock-a-cha-cha beat pleader...that [the Four Tops] carve out with solid sales authority."[3] Rolling Stone ranked the Four Tops' original version of the song at No. 400 on their list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time.[4]
In Australia on the "Stateside" Label, "Baby I Need Your Loving" reached #50 on the KMR chart[5] and spent just 6 weeks in the chart which it entered on the 30th January 1964.
- ^ Breihan, Tom (July 30, 2018). "The Number Ones: The Four Tops' "I Can't Help Myself (Sugar Pie, Honey Bunch)"". Stereogum. Retrieved June 12, 2023.
...when the songwriting/production team Holland-Dozier-Holland convinced them to move from jazz to pop and gave them "Baby I Need Your Loving"...
- ^ Gilliland, John (1969). "Show 50 - The Soul Reformation: Phase three, soul music at the summit. [Part 6] : UNT Digital Library" (audio). Pop Chronicles. University of North Texas Libraries.
- ^ "CashBox Record Reviews" (PDF). Cash Box. July 25, 1964. p. 28. Retrieved 2022-01-12.
- ^ "Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Songs of All Time". Rolling Stone. April 2010. Retrieved October 1, 2015.
- ^ Australian Chart Book 1940-1969 pp71 - David Kent