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Bernadette (song)
Bernadette (song)
“Bernadette”
For other uses, see "Bernadette." "Bernadette" is a 1967 hit song recorded by The Four Tops for the Motown label. Written and produced by Motown’s main production team, Holland-Dozier-Holland, the song is one of the most well-known Motown tunes of the 1960s. Depicting a man’s excessive desire for and jealousy over his girlfriend, the song reached #4 on the Billboard Hot 100, and was The Four Tops’s final Top 10 hit of the 1960s. In 1972, the song "Keeper of the Castle" would return them to the Top 10 charts.
Single by Four Tops from the album Reach Out B-side Released Format Recorded Genre Length Label Writer(s) Producer "Something About You" February 16, 1967 7" single Hitsville USA (Studio A); 1966 Soul/pop 3:00 Motown
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Credits
• Lead vocals by Levi Stubbs • Background vocals by Abdul "Duke" Fakir, Renaldo "Obie" Benson, Lawrence Payton, and The Andantes: Jackie Hicks, Marlene Barrow, and Louvain Demps • Instrumentation by The Funk Brothers • Written by Brian Holland, Lamont Dozier, and Edward Holland, Jr. • Produced by Brian Holland and Lamont Dozier
Holland-Dozier-Holland Brian Holland Lamont Dozier
Four Tops singles chronology "Standing in the Shadows of Love" 1966 "Bernadette" 1967 "7-Rooms of Gloom" 1967
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