Need Your Love (Flamingos song)

"Need Your Love" is a song by The Flamingos, released in 1955 by Checker Records.
It was written by lead singer Nate Nelson, and arranged by the group's first tenor, Johnny Carter. This composition was written and recorded when the Flamingos first signed with Chess / Checker Records. It was shelved and finally released as the B-side of "I'll Be Home" that was hailed as a major hit long before its release, as a consequence "Need Your Love" never was played on the radio. Its obscurity was so complete that when the group was interviewed by the CEO/Founder of The Doo Wop Hall of Fame, Lonnie Cook, (in 1995 prior to their induction into The R&B Foundation at the Hollywood Palladium) no member remembered the song. They never even sang it again after leaving the studio.
Lonnie Cook was the lead singer of a Kansas City doo wop group called The Fandangos, who purchased "I'll Be Home" and listened to the b-side.
The Fandangos adopted the song as their theme song and made history by singing it over 5,000 times. No other song has ever been immortalized by another group, and that without airplay. They sang it exactly like the record. Lonnie Cook, Alvin Fant, Gerald Melton, Homer Glover, Harvey Shannon, and Eddie Wade are in the record books as a result of that accomplishment..

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