Baby I Need Your Loving

Infobox Single
Name = Baby I Need Your Loving
Artist = Four Tops


from Album = Four Tops
Released = July 10, 1964
Format = 7" single
Recorded = Hitsville USA (Studio A); July 8, 1964
Genre = Soul/pop
Length = 2:45
Label = Motown
M 1062
Writer = Holland-Dozier-Holland
Producer = Brian Holland
Lamont Dozier
Last single = "Pennies From Heaven"
(1962)
This single = "Baby I Need Your Loving"
(1964)
Next single = "Without the One You Love (Life's Not Worthwhile)"
(1964)

"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, the song was the group's first Motown single and their first pop Top 20 hit, making it to number eleven on the Billboard Hot 100 in the fall of 1964.It was also their first million-selling hit single.

The song was recorded by Johnny Rivers in 1967. His version, titled "Baby I Need Your Lovin'", was released as a single, and became a number-three hit on the Billboard pop chart.

Rolling Stone ranked The Four Tops' original version of the song #390 on their list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time.

Credits

* Lead vocals by Levi Stubbs
* Background Vocals by Renaldo "Obie" Benson, Lawrence Payton,Abdul "Duke" Fakir and The Andantes: Jackie Hicks, Marlene Barrow, and Louvain Demps
* Instrumentation by The Funk Brothers
* Written by Brian Holland, Lamont Dozier, and Edward Holland, Jr.
* Produced by Brian Holland and Lamont Dozier

References

*"Hits Of The Sixties: The Million Sellers" - By Demitri Coryton and Joseph Murrells (pg 100).