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"You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin'", by the Righteous Brothers duo Bill Medley and Bobby Hatfield in 1964, was a critical and commercial success becoming a #1 hit single in both the U.S. and the U.K., and their fifth best selling song of 1965. Their recording is considered by some music critics to be the ultimate expression and illustration of producer Spector's "Wall of Sound" recording technique, and one of the best ultimate pop records sever made. Co-written by Barry Mann, and Cynthia Weil, the song was considered for The Everly Brothers, however, the Righteous Brothers' black vocal style, termed blue-eyed soul, suited Spector and adjustments were made. The song also took a cue from "Baby I Need Your Loving" by The Four Tops and was influenced by a line from the song "I Love How You Love Me" by the Paris Sisters. The line "you've lost that lovin' feelin'" was originally only intended to be a dummy line that would be replaced later, but Phil Spector liked it and decided to keep it. In 1999, the performing-rights organization Broadcast Music, Inc. ranked the song as the most played song on U.S. radio and television in the 20th century accumulating more than 8 million airplays by 1999, and nearly 15 million by 2011. It was also chosen as one of the Songs of the Century, one of the Rolling Stone Magazine's 500 Greatest Songs of All Time, and inducted into the National Recording Registry by the Library of Congress for being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant". Also noteworthy, the background singers were mainly the vocal group The Blossoms, and joining in the song's vocal crescendo was a young Cher.
"You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin'", by the Righteous Brothers duo Bill Medley and Bobby Hatfield in 1964, was a critical and commercial success becoming a #1 hit single in both the U.S. and the U.K., and their fifth best selling song of 1965. Their recording is considered by some music critics to be the ultimate expression and illustration of producer Spector's "Wall of Sound" recording technique, and one of the best ultimate pop records sever made. Co-written by Barry Mann, and Cynthia Weil, the song was considered for The Everly Brothers, however, the Righteous Brothers' black vocal style, termed blue-eyed soul, suited Spector and adjustments were made. The song also took a cue from "Baby I Need Your Loving" by The Four Tops and was influenced by a line from the song "I Love How You Love Me" by the Paris Sisters. The line "you've lost that lovin' feelin'" was originally only intended to be a dummy line that would be replaced later, but Phil Spector liked it and decided to keep it. In 1999, the performing-rights organization Broadcast Music, Inc. ranked the song as the most played song on U.S. radio and television in the 20th century accumulating more than 8 million airplays by 1999, and nearly 15 million by 2011. It was also chosen as one of the Songs of the Century, one of the Rolling Stone Magazine's 500 Greatest Songs of All Time, and inducted into the National Recording Registry by the Library of Congress for being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant". Also noteworthy, the background singers were mainly the vocal group The Blossoms, and joining in the song's vocal crescendo was a young Cher.
