718 The Four Tops “Baby I Need Your Loving” 1964

“They'd been singing together for ten years, and making intermittent recordings for eight years. But in 1964, Levi Stubbs, Abdul ‘Duke’ Fakir, Lawrence Payton, and Renaldo ‘Obie’ Benson had yet to break through with a hit record. That came to an end with their debut single for Motown, Baby, I Need Your Loving…Once this record hit big, the Tops were on a roll that didn't stop until more than a decade later. Broadcast Music, Inc. (BMI) ranks it as the #8 most played song of the past sixty-plus years with over nine million broadcast performances” (Steve Sullivan, Encyclopedia of Great Popular Song Recordings, 2013).  

The Four Tops “Baby I Need Your Loving”