Various Variant versions 2

(i Know) I’m Losing You

(Cornelius Grant, Eddie Holland, Brian Holland and Norman Whitfield)

The first 3 versions are all produced by Legendary Motown Producer and co-writer of the song, Norman Whitfield.

The original Temptations version from their 1967 With a Lot O’ Soul  album is pretty damn near perfect.

But, that didn’t stop Whitfield from redoing it.

Rare Earth was Motown’s Rock Band.  Their first big hit was another Temptations cover, Get Ready,  This one from the 1970 Ecology album is Whitfield at his most psychedelic.

The weird video below contains the shorter, single version of the song performed “live” on ice (!) for some sort of Ed Sullivan production, apparently.

The Undisputed Truth were Norman Whitfield’s outlet for many of his more experimental tendencies.  As a result some of their albums are a little uneven but, still fascinating to Whitfield aficionados like all of us here at Infinite Jones.  This version of (I Know) I’m Losing You from the 1975 Cosmic Truth album is a bit looser than most Whitfield productions but, still pretty awesome.

From the Classic 1971 Every Picture Tells a Story album, Rod Stewart turns in another damn near perfect version of this song.

Below, Stewart and Faces rock a remarkable live version.

Uptown‘s 1983 version is a Club Classic and another inventive remake of this versatile song.

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