It's the Same Old Song

"It's the Same Old Song" is a 1965 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 today one of The Tops' signiture songs, and was notably created--from initial concept to commercial release--in exactly 24 hours.

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1965 - The Four Tops - Motown - Holland-Dozier-Holland

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After "I Can't Help Myself (Sugar Pie, Honey Bunch)" hit #1 in June of 1965, The Four Tops' former label Columbia Records, wanting to cash in on the group's success, put out a vaulted recording the group had done for their label in the early 1960s as a single. A perturbed Berry Gordy ordered that a new Four Tops single had to be released within a day's time.

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I Can't Help Myself (Sugar Pie, Honey Bunch) - June - Columbia Records - 1960s

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At 3 o' clock that afternoon, the Holland brothers and Lamont Dozier penned "It's the Same Old Song"; by 5 P.M., The Tops had recorded the song and mixing began. The engineering team worked around the clock perfecting the single's mix and making hand-cut vinyl records so that Berry Gordy's sister Esther in the Artist Development department could critique them and select the best ones for single release. By 3 P.M. the next day, 1500 copies of "It's the Same Song" had been delivered to radio DJs across the country, and the song eventually made it to #5 on the Billboard Hot 100 charts.

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Vinyl records - Billboard Hot 100

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