Baby I Need Your Loving
1964 single by the Four Tops / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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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.
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"Baby I Need Your Loving" | ||||
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Single by Four Tops | ||||
from the album Four Tops | ||||
B-side | "Call on Me" | |||
Released | July 10, 1964 (1964-07-10) | |||
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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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 spend just 6 weeks in the chart which it entered on the 30th January 1964.