Bernadette (song)

Infobox Single
Name = Bernadette


Artist = Four Tops
from Album = Reach Out
Released = February 16, 1967
B-side = "Something About You"
Format = 7" single
Recorded = Hitsville USA (Studio A); 1966
Genre = Soul/pop
Length = 3:00
Label = Motown
M 1104
Writer = Holland-Dozier-Holland
Producer = Brian Holland
Lamont Dozier
Last single = "Standing in the Shadows of Love"
1966
This single = "Bernadette"
1967
Next single = "7-Rooms of Gloom"
1967

:"For other uses, see "Bernadette."

"Bernadette" is a 1967 hit song recorded by The Four Tops for the Motown label. Written and produced by Motown's main production team, Holland-Dozier-Holland, the song is one of the most well-known Motown tunes of the 1960s. Depicting a man's excessive desire for and jealousy over his girlfriend, the song reached #4 on the Billboard Hot 100, and was The Four Tops's final Top 10 hit of the 1960s. The song was also a request from one of the group members, who wanted it to be written for a young lady named Bernadette, whom he had met during his visits to the UK. In 1972, the song "Keeper of the Castle" would return them to the Top 10 charts.

Credits

* Lead vocals by Levi Stubbs
* Background vocals by Abdul "Duke" Fakir, Renaldo "Obie" Benson, Lawrence Payton, 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