Hot (I Need to Be Loved, Loved, Loved)

"Hot (I Need To Be Loved, Loved, Loved, Loved)"
Single by James Brown
from the album Hot
B-side	"Superbad, Superslick Part I"
Released	December 1975
Format	7"
Recorded	September-October 1975, Sound Ideas, New York, NY
Genre	Funk, disco
Length	6:03
Label	Polydor 14301
Writer(s)	James Brown
Producer(s)	James Brown
James Brown charting singles chronology
"Superbad, Superslick Part I" (1975) "Hot (I Need to Be Loved, Loved, Loved, Loved)" (1975) "(I Love You) For Sentimental Reasons" (1976)

"Hot (I Need To Be Loved, Loved, Loved, Loved)", also known as "Hot (I Need to Be Loved, Loved, Loved)", is a funk song by James Brown. Released as a single in December 1975, it reached #31 on the R&B chart.^[1][2] It uses the main riff from the David Bowie song "Fame", released earlier the same year.^[3] (Guitarist Carlos Alomar, who created the borrowed riff and was a co-writer on "Fame", was briefly in James Brown's band in the late 1960s.) The song also appeared as the lead track on Brown's 1976 album Hot.

References

1. White, Cliff (1991). "Discography". In Star Time (pp. 54–59) [CD booklet]. New York: PolyGram Records.
2. Leeds, Alan, and Harry Weinger (1991). "Star Time: Song by Song". In Star Time (pp. 46–53) [CD booklet]. New York: PolyGram Records.
3. "Hot (I Need to Be Loved, Loved, Loved) - James Brown - Song Info - AllMusic". allmusic.com. Retrieved 25 June 2016.

External links

• AllMusic review