Too Busy Thinking About My Baby

Infobox Single
Name = Too Busy Thinking About My Baby
Artist = Marvin Gaye
from Album = M.P.G.
B-side = "Wherever I Lay My Hat (That's My Home)"
Released = April 1969
Format = 7" single
Recorded = Hitsville USA (Studio A); 1969
Genre = Soul
Length = 2:55
Label = Tamla
T 54181
Writer = Norman Whitfield
Barrett Strong
Janie Bradford
Producer = Norman Whitfield
Last single = "I Heard It Through the Grapevine"
(1968)
This single = "Too Busy Thinking About My Baby"
(1969)
Next single = "That's the Way Love Is"
(1969)

"Too Busy Thinking About My Baby" is a Motown song written by Norman Whitfield, Barrett Strong, and Janie Bradford. The song was first recorded by The Temptations as a track on their 1966 album "Gettin' Ready". Eddie Kendricks sings lead on the recording, which was produced by Whitfield.

Three years later, Motown artist Marvin Gaye recorded a cover version of "Too Busy Thinking About My Baby" as a follow-up single to his 1968 hit "I Heard It Through the Grapevine", another Whitfield/Strong composition. Whitfield produced Gaye's version as well, which featured background vocals by The Andantes. The song's lyrics feature the male narrator discussing how he has "no time to discuss weather" or "think about what money can buy", because when he thinks about his woman, "I ain't got time for nothing else".

In terms of chart success, "Too Busy Thinking About My Baby" was Gaye's second biggest hit of the 1960s, after "I Heard It Through the Grapevine". "Too Busy Thinking About My Baby" peaked at number four on the Billboard Hot 100 in the United States, and remained at the number one position on "Billboard's" Black Singles Chart for six consecutive weeks, from June 7 until July 18 1969, with sales totaling 1.5 million copies. Fact|date=March 2008 The single was the first single from Gaye's 1969 studio album "M.P.G.".

In 1995 The Manhattan Transfer covered the song with Phil Collins. This version reached 27 on the Hot Adult Contemporary Tracks chart in the United States.

"Too Busy Thinking About My Baby" was later covered by British pop group, Steps for ITVs MotownMania. It was the B-side for their 2001 single, "It's The Way You Make Me Feel".

Credits

Temptations version

* Lead vocals by Eddie Kendricks
* Background vocals by David Ruffin, Eddie Kendricks, Melvin Franklin, Paul Williams, and Otis Williams
* Instrumentation by The Funk Brothers

Marvin Gaye version

* Lead Vocals by Marvin Gaye
* Background Vocals by The Andantes: Jackie Hicks, Marlene Barrow and Louvain Demps
* Instrumentation by The Funk Brothers