[fidelis]

"Baby I Need Your Loving" is probably the Coolest song that's ever been recorded. The short but tone-setting opening drum, Levi Stubbs gruff but warm lead vocal, the sweet and low background harmonies, and the flowing smoothness of the entire song make it the epitome of Cool. So nice to hear and sing along.

Baby I Need Your Loving · Four Tops

[Fiji Hill]

When I became a teenager, my mother gave me a transister radio, saying that it was what every teenager should have. I promptly tuned in to KRLA, the 50,000-watt rock blaster at 1110 kilocycles (not today’s conservative talk station with the same call letters at 870 kcs). One of the first tunes I heard was “Baby, I Need Your Loving.”