"Standing in the Shadows of Love" is a 1966 hit single 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. A direct follow-up to the #1 hit "Reach Out I'll Be There" (even featuring a similar musical arrangement), "Standing in the Shadows of Love" reached #6 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1967. It is ranked #464 on Rolling Stone 's list of The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time.
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Artists who have covered the song include The Jackson 5 on their first album released in 1969 Diana Ross Presents The Jackson 5, Barry White, on his 1973 album I've Got So Much to Give (with an extended instrumental intro), France Joli on her 1983 dance album Attitude, and Hall & Oates on their 2004 album Our Kind of Soul. British R&B singer Craig David samples the chorus of this track in his comeback single 'One More Lie', released in March 2010.
Phil Collins also covered this song on his album of soul covers, Going Back.
Great resemblance to the song is found in Michelle's electronic maxi-single "Standing Here All Alone" released in Canada in 1995 and appearing on DJ Club Mix vol. 9 in the same year.
Flesh-n-Bone from Bone Thugs-n-Harmony sampled this song for the chorus on his single "Heartaches" released in 2011. The sampled chorus was later combined with Layzie Bone's wife singer Felicia. However, a version with only The Four Tops also is in public circulation.
[edit] Reference and Resemblance
The song is referenced in the John Mellencamp hit "Lonely Ol' Night" from the 1985 Scarecrow album: "Radio playing softly some singer's sad sad song. He's singing about standing in the shadows of love; I guess he feels awfully alone." In 1990, rock band Aerosmith released the single "The Other Side", which Holland-Dozier-Holland claimed had a riff strongly resembling "Standing in the Shadows of Love". To avoid a lawsuit, Aerosmith's lawyers arranged to give Holland-Dozier-Holland a songwriting credit on "The Other Side".
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- Four Tops Live! (1966)
- Live & in Concert (1974)
- Christmas Here With You (1995)
- The Ultimate Collection (1997)
- Lost & Found: Breaking Through (1999)
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