Loving You Is Sweeter Than Ever

"Loving You Is Sweeter Than Ever" is a single from the American soul - and R & B group The Four Tops . The song is the second and final single, after " Shake Me, Wake Me (When It's Over), from the third album of the group, "On Top" called. Unlike its predecessor and previous issues of The Four Tops such as " Baby I Need Your Loving "and" Something About You "knew" Loving You Is Sweeter Than Ever "not the top 40 in the United States to achieve. It stayed there namely hang a listing # 45 and was the single which a series of five top forty hits behind broke apart from the group. In contrast, the number had much greater success in the United Kingdom . Since the single was eventually stabbing at # 21. This was "Loving You Is Sweeter Than Ever" the greatest hit in Britain . This did not last long, moreover, because the successor of the single, " Reach Out, I'll Be There ", was a # 1 hit and thus the most successful single ever by The Four Tops in the United Kingdom.

"Loving You Is Sweeter Than Ever" was one of the few singles from The Four Tops to the early career at Motown that was not written by the songwriter trio Holland-Dozier-Holland . Well loved Brian Holland, a member of the trio, supervision during the production of the song. The producer was Ivy Jo Hunter . He also wrote the song, this along with Motown artist Stevie Wonder . Besides Wonder co-wrote the song he was also the drummer during the recording of the song. There also exists two productions of "Loving You Is Sweeter Than Ever". The one where Holland supervision ceased was released as a single, but Ivy Jo Hunter had yet to record a version without Holland, Holland because he felt that too much change to the number, so the number was no longer so if that Hunter had in mind.

The subject of "Loving You Is Sweeter Than Ever" is that the narrator, lead singer Levi Stubbs in the original version, his beloved compliments and talks about how happy he is with her. The background singers are the other members of the Four Tops. In many recordings of the group were The Andantes, a female backing vocal group of Motown, used, but "Loving You Is Sweeter Than Ever" is an exception.

Although "Loving You Was Sweeter Than Ever" no big hit was on the main market of the Four Tops, the US, the number was still popular among artists. "Loving You Is Sweeter Than Ever" was later often been covered by artists such as Elton John with Kiki Dee , Marvin Gaye , The Supremes , Michael MacDonald , Brian Ferry , Eric Clapton and The Band . The B-side, the song "I Like Everything About You" was later recorded by other artists. One of them was a group of other men from Motown, The Contours called.

[Version Of Nick Kamen edit ]
Nick Kamen in 1987 published a cover version of the song. The song won first place in Italy.

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 * Lead: Levi Stubbs
 * Background: Lawrence Payton , Abdul "Duke" Fakir, and Renaldo "Obie" Benson
 * Instrumentation: The Funk Brothers and Stevie Wonder on drums
 * Writers: Stevie Wonder and Ivy Jo Hunter
 * Production: Ivy Jo Hunter