"Need Your Love" is a song by The Flamingos.
The song was recorded by one of the best doo wop groups of the '50s era, The Flamingos. It was the creation of the lead singer, Nate Nelson and arranged by the group's stellar first tenor, Johnny Carter. This last minute composition was written as a b-side for a song 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.
As it turns out Lonnie Cook was the lead singer of a Kansas City doo wop group called The Fandangos and upon purchase of the 45rpm flipped it and played what he considers to be the best overall doo wop ever written.
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.