Greatest Songs, #429: "Everybody Needs Somebody to Love" by Solomon Burke

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Year: 1964
Written by: Solomon Burke, Bert Berns, & Jerry Wexler
Billboard Hot 100: #58

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sbseZp1nbDg[/youtube]  From Rolling Stone:

Philadelphia-born minister Burke started preaching at the age of seven and often recorded his vocals from behind a pulpit. Burke attacks this song in the style of a fire-and-brimstone Southern preacher, calling out for a witness and testifying to the power of love. In the congregation: the Rolling Stones, who covered it in 1965.

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