“Baby I Need Your Loving” by The Four Tops

"Baby I Need Your Loving" was the Four Tops' first single for Motown, a 1964 side that also sits on their album Four Tops, and it's a big, aching plea sung like the whole block ought to hear it. Holland–Dozier–Holland wrote it, and Brian Holland and Lamont Dozier were at the controls. Cash Box called it a "rock-a-cha-cha beat pleader".

It gave the group their first top-20 pop hit that autumn, climbing to 11 on the Billboard Hot 100 and 4 in Canada, and it was their first single to sell a million copies. Rolling Stone later slotted the Four Tops' original in at 400 when it counted down the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time.

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