Something About You (Four Tops song)

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"Something About You"
Four Tops' Second Album
B-side"Darling I Hum Our Song"
Released1965
Recorded1965
StudioHitsville U.S.A., Detroit
GenreSoul, pop
Length2:48
LabelMotown
Songwriter(s)Holland–Dozier–Holland
Producer(s)Brian Holland
Lamont Dozier
Four Tops singles chronology
"It's the Same Old Song"
(1965) 		"Something About You"
(1965) 		"Shake Me, Wake Me (When It's Over)"
(1966)

"Something About You" is a song written by

Four Tops' Second Album
.

History

"Something About You" was released as the third single from the Four Tops' Second Album, following "

B-side of the single was "Darling I Hum Our Song."[3] "Something About You" has appeared on numerous compilation albums, including The Ultimate Collection.[4]

"Something About You" is unusual for a

Funk Brothers played the guitar part on "Something About You," as he did on "My Girl."[6]

Reception

Rolling Stone Magazine critic Dave Marsh rated "Something About You" to be one of the top 1001 singles of all time.[12] Marsh praised the song's sense of urgency, claiming that rhythm and blues is about "the kind of emotional expansiveness that erupts from these grooves, the pure tension between Motown formula and Levi's [lead singer Levi Stubbs'] uncontrollable passions."[12]

Covers

Dave Edmunds covered the song on his 1984 album Riff Raff, the song hit #16 on the Billboard Mainstream Rock chart.[13] Other covers were released on albums by Phil Collins, Frankie Miller, Quincy Jones, Graham Bonnet, The Grass Roots, Leblanc and Carr and Cilla Black.

Personnel

References

  1. Allmusic
    . Retrieved 2014-03-15.
  2. ISBN 0823076415
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  3. ISBN 9780810845923
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  4. Allmusic
    . Retrieved 2014-03-15.
  5. ^
    ISBN 9780879307103
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  6. ^
    ISBN 9780472031900
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  7. ^ "Spotlight Singles" (PDF). Billboard. November 6, 1965. p. 18. Retrieved 2021-03-09.
  8. ^ "CashBox Record Reviews" (PDF). Cash Box. November 6, 1965. p. 24. Retrieved 2022-01-12.
  9. ^ "Single Picks of the Week" (PDF). Record World. November 6, 1965. p. 1. Retrieved 2023-07-19.
  10. ^
    Allmusic
    . Retrieved 2014-03-15.
  11. ISBN 9780873492867
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  12. ^
    ISBN 9780306809019
    .
  13. ^ "Dave Edmunds Chart History (Mainstream Rock)". Billboard. Retrieved 18 February 2021.
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