Please Return Your Love To Me

Infobox Single
Name = Please Return Your Love to Me
Artist = The Temptations
from Album = The Temptations Wish It Would Rain
B-side = "How Could I Forget"
Released = July 16, 1968
Format = 7" single
Recorded = Hitsville USA; 1968
Genre = Soul
Length = 2:21
Label = Gordy
G 7074
Writer = Norman Whitfield
Barrett Strong
Producer = Norman Whitfield
Last single = "I Could Never Love Another (After Loving You)"
(1968)
This single = "Please Return Your Love to Me"
(1968)
Next single = "Cloud Nine"
(1968) "Please Return Your Love to Me" is a 1968 hit single by The Temptations for the Gordy (Motown) label. Produced by Norman Whitfield, who co-written the song with Barrett Strong, it is the last single to feature David Ruffin in the lineup (he was singing in the background). With Eddie Kendricks singing lead, it peaked on the Billboard Hot 100 Pop charts in the Top 30 at number 26, and number 4 on the Billboard R&B Singles charts. [Williams, Otis and Romanowski, Patricia (1988, updated 2002). Temptations. Lanham, MD: Cooper Square. ISBN 0-8154-1218-5.]

Credits

* Lead vocals by Eddie Kendricks
* Background vocals by Melvin Franklin, Paul Williams, David Ruffin, and Otis Williams
* Written by Norman Whitfield and Barrett Strong
*Produced by Norman Whitfield
* Instrumentation by The Funk Brothers

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