Motown Legend Lamont Dozier on 60s Hit Baby I Need Your Lovin' by The Four Tops | Professor of Rock

5 Rock Hall Of Famers and another icon tell the story of the #1 motown hit Baby I Need Your Loving by the Four Tops including the last remaining member Duke Fakir, as well as producer/writer Lamont Dozier of Holland Dozier Holland and Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil who were inspired by the song to write You’ve Lost That Lovin’ Feeling with an appearance by Bill Medley of the Righteous Brothers and Johnny Rivers who remade the song and took it too the top 3. We Have New MERCH! https://bit.ly/ProfessorsMerch Thank you to this Episodes Sponsor, Zenni Optical Incredible Prices on New Glasses - https://bit.ly/ZenniOpticalShop ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Executive Producer Brandon Fugal Honorary Producers Greg Arends, Walter O. Wright II., Zachery Perry, Jason White ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Check Out My Hand Picked Selection Below Professor's 80s Store 100 Best Selling Albums https://amzn.to/3h3qZX9 Ultimate History of 80s Teen Movie https://amzn.to/3ifjdKQ 80s to 90s VHS Video Cover Art https://amzn.to/2QXzmIX Totally Awesome 80s A Lexicon https://amzn.to/3h4ilrk Best In Ear Headphones (I Use These Every Day) https://amzn.to/2ZcTlIl ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Access To Backstage Content Become a Patron - http://bit.ly/ProfessorofRockVIPFan Purchase The Albums Help out the Channel by purchasing your albums through our links! As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases at no extra cost to you, thank you for your support. Click here for Premium Content: https://bit.ly/SignUpForPremiumContent​ https://bit.ly/Facebook_Professor_of_... https://bit.ly/Instagram_Professor_of... ​#70s #Rock #Story Hey music junkies and vinyl junkies Professor of Rock always here to celebrate the greatest artists and the greatest 70s songs of all time for the music community and vinyl community. If you’ve ever owned records, cassettes and CD’s at different times in you life or still do this is your place Subscribe below right now to be a part of our daily celebration of the rock era with exclusive stories from straight from the artists and click on our patreon link in the description to see our brand new show there. In my adventures interviewing artists there are definitely some major pinch me moments. There are times when I’m sitting there and it will hit me, i’m talking to someone who has not only changed music history but world history. When I interviewed Lamont Dozier one of the legendary human beings who created the blue print of popular music as we know it Lamont is of course the rock and roll hall of fame producer writer of Holland Dozier Holland one of the most successful writing teams ever! Ever!. The only team from that time that was more successful were the Beatles. For those of you who don’t know, Lamont Dozier has produced and cowritten 14 number one hits for Everyone from The Four Tops, The Supremes and Phil Collins. Along with brothers Brian and eddie Holland he was responsible for much of the motown sound that brought about social change in the 60s. They were behind sound of young america in the most revered decade of music the 60s. I also had the chance to talk with Duke Fakir the last living member of the Four Tops. What follows is the direct story of the major hit for the Four Tops, a classic song that has charted several times with several different version. Baby I Need Your Lovin. It went to #11 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1964 and selling a million copies, a few years later Johnny Rivers took the song to #3 at Billboard Hot 100 and #1 in canada. So coming up we get the story of this song from Lamont Dozier and Duke from the four tops as well as Johnny Rivers. You won’t find this anywhere else, It’s exclusive to you our community: as we go into these interviews I want to thank our sponsor Zennie eyewear who helps make this channel possible at Zenni.com you can design your own frames, the color shape and style and then see how you look before you order with Zenni’s Virtual try-ons: you can make sure it matches your face then you just put in your prescription and they deliver them right to your door YOu’ll love it. Here’s the story of Baby I need Your liven: