Since I Lost My Baby | |
Cover: | Since I Lost My Baby cover.jpg |
Type: | single |
Artist: | The Temptations |
Album: | The Temptin' Temptations |
B-Side: | You've Got to Earn It |
Released: | June 1, 1965 |
Recorded: | May 5, May 10 and May 12, 1965 |
Studio: | Hitsville U.S.A. (Studio A) |
Genre: | R&B, soul |
Length: | 2:51 |
Label: | Gordy G 7043 |
Producer: | Smokey Robinson |
Prev Title: | It's Growing |
Prev Year: | 1965 |
Next Title: | My Baby |
Next Year: | 1965 |
"Since I Lost My Baby" is a 1965 hit single recorded by The Temptations for the Motown Records' Gordy label. Written by Miracles members Smokey Robinson and Pete Moore and produced by Robinson, the song was a top 20 pop single on the Billboard Hot 100 in the United States, on which it peaked at number 17. On Billboard's R&B singles chart, "Since I Lost My Baby" peaked at number four.[1]
Longing and melancholy, "Since I Lost My Baby" tells a story about the pain of losing a lover. Temptations lead singer David Ruffin, portrays the song's narrator, bass singer Melvin Franklin is also heard out front after each of Ruffin's first two lines on the first verse. It was Ruffin's third straight lead on a Temptations single.
Cash Box described it as a "tender, slow-shufflin’ pop-r&b tearjerker about a lad who has been singing the blues since his romance went kaput."[2]
Chart (1965) | Peak position |
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U.S. Billboard Hot 100 Chart | 17 |
U.S. Billboard R&B Singles | 4 |
Since I Lost My Baby | |
B-Side: | You're The Sweetest One |
Cover: | Since I Lost My Baby - Luther Vandross - sticker.jpg |
Type: | single |
Artist: | Luther Vandross |
Album: | Forever, for Always, for Love |
Released: | 1982 |
Studio: | Mediasound, New York City |
Genre: | R&B, soul |
Length: | 3:50 |
Label: | Epic Records |
Producer: | Luther Vandross |
Prev Title: | Bad Boy/Having a Party |
Prev Year: | 1982 |
Next Title: | How Many Times Can We Say Goodbye |
Next Year: | 1983 |
Luther Vandross covered the song for his 1982 album Forever, for Always, for Love. In 1983, Vandross' cover was a top twenty R&B hit, peaking to #17 on Billboards Hot R&B Singles chart.