Sunday February 21, 2021 “Baby I Need Your Loving” Four Tops
It couldn’t be a recognition of musical Black History without including the hit making powerhouse Motown which was the home of the most remarkable and successful singers and groups many of whom benefited from the amazing talents of the songwriting team of Holland-Dozier-Holland.Holland–Dozier–Holland was a songwriting and production team made up of Lamont Dozier and brothers Brian and Eddie Holland. The trio wrote, arranged and produced so many songs that helped define the Motown sound in the 1960s. This trio was responsible for forty nine top ten hits along with several dozen more top twenty hits.
“Baby I Need Your Loving” was the first of many Motown hits for the Four Tops, and the beginning of their fruitful collaboration with the Holland-Dozier-Holland songwriting team.
The Four Tops were a group of friends that stuck together as a vocal group for over forty years. They started out as the backing group for the Supremes but went on to be one of the most successful vocal groups ever with fourteen top forty songs.
One of their early hits “(Sugar Pie Honey Bunch) I Can’t Help Myself”. was so successful that their follow-up song “It’s the Same Old Song” was, well, the same song but with different lyrics. It too was a hit.
Stay safe and well...and rock on with an appreciation to the remarkable contribution that these Black artists have made to the music we love and enjoy.