You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin' On the day I was born, way too many years ago, this was the number one song in the U.S.A. Here's a few fun facts you may not know about the song:→[More:]

1) Radio programmers of the day thought the song was too long. Pop singles never lasted 3:46 back then; they were more like 2:30, at most. Phil Spector had the single printed with the time listed on the label as "3:05," but even so, a lot of stations wouldn't play it at first.

2) This was probably Spector's most ambitious project up to that time, and some in the industry didn't know what to make of it, saying "It sounds like it's playing at the wrong speed," and "Why does that guy keep YELLING?"

3) The song caused strife with the Righteous Brothers, partially because Bobby Hatfield doesn't chime in until almost two-and-half minutes into the song. Until then, they'd always worked in unison on faster-paced, R&B style songs.

4) As the YouTube post notes, Sonny and Cher are among the backup singers. Bono worked for Spector a lot around that time, as a session musician and sometime employee, and Cher was a session singer in L.A.

5) The Rolling Stones' manager, Andrew Oldham, took out an ad in the British music weeklies calling the song, "...the Last Word in Tomorrow's Sound Today, exposing the overall mediocrity of the Music Industry."