the best songs ever

[Eric the Green]

As I go backwards in my posts of the best songs ever, I come to what I call the first generation; the songs which we on the radio when I first tuned in on a regular basis to a rock n roll station in July 1964. Before this I call "pre-natal" (oldies but goodies) that I may have heard playing somewhere, or heard on the weekends when the station played the "oldies but goodies." I probably heard this one the first night. I've come to appreciate it more and more as one of the Motown greats, and has become my favorite by the 4 Tops. The songwriting team of Brian and Eddie Holland and Lamont Dozier were amazing in the number of songs they wrote for the Supremes, the 4 Tops, the Temptations and other groups, together with the top-flight group of over a dozen musicians and arrangers (called the Funk Brothers, I have learned) who made the Motown Sound. "Baby I Need Your Lovin' " also helped inspire the Righteous Brothers' mega hit "You've Lost That Lovin' Feeling"





"Simply put it's one of the greatest songs ever written and performed. It was released in the fall of 1964 and composed by Holland Dozier Holland, and was the Four Tops first hit. It reached No.11 on the billboard charts and has now passed into folklore as classic definitive motown. Masterfully led by the great Levi Stubbs and atmospherically backed by Fakir, Payton and Benson." unquote the uploader of this video:
https://youtu.be/joqjBAJx4ZA

When I started listening, "Where Did Our Love Go" by The Supremes had just become #1. I believe the first song I heard was "Under the Boardwalk" by The Drifters.