Sweet Understanding Love

{{Infobox song | name = Sweet Understanding Love | cover = Sweet_Understanding_Love_-_Four_Tops.jpg | alt = | type = single | artist = Four Tops | album = Main Street People | B-side = Main Street People | released = October 1973 | recorded = 1973 | studio = | venue = | genre = Soul/pop | length = 2:59 | label = ABC Records | writer = R. Benson, V. Benson, I. Hunter | producer = Steve Barri, Dennis Lambert and Brian Potter | prev_title = Are You Man Enough? | prev_year = 1973 | next_title = I Just Can't Get You Out of My Mind | next_year = 1974 | misc = }}

"'''Sweet Understanding Love'''" is a 1973 hit song recorded by the Four Tops for the ABC Records label. The song was the second of three single releases from their sixteenth studio album, ''Main Street People''. The title track of the LP is on the B-side of the 45. "Sweet Understanding Love" was placed on their 1991 compilation album ''Ain't No Woman (Like the One I've Got)''. It was also included on their album ''Anthology: 50th Anniversary'' (2004).

==Background== The song was written by R. Benson, Valaida Benson and I. Hunter.It marked the end of a 10-year run of American Top 40 hits by the group. They would return eight years later when they scored a major comeback hit, "When She Was My Girl".

==Charts== The song reached number 10 on the American R&B chart, number 33 on the American ''Billboard'' chart in 1973,<ref>''Joel Whitburn's Top Pop Singles 1955-1990'' - {{ISBN|0-89820-089-X}}</ref> and number 30 on the ''Cash Box'' Top 100.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://tropicalglen.com/Archives/70s_files/19731117.html |title=Cash Box Top 100 Singles, November 17, 1973 |access-date=February 19, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161227195709/http://tropicalglen.com/Archives/70s_files/19731117.html |archive-date=December 27, 2016 |url-status=dead }}</ref> It reached number 29 in the UK. {| class="wikitable sortable" |- !Chart (1973) !Peak<br />position |- |UK (Official Charts Company)<ref>{{cite web|title=officialcharts.com|website=Official Charts |url=https://www.officialcharts.com/artist/11856/four-tops/|accessdate=April 20, 2021}}</ref> | style="text-align:center;"|29 |- |US ''Billboard'' Hot 100<ref>''Joel Whitburn's Top Pop Singles 1955-1990'' - {{ISBN|0-89820-089-X}}</ref> | style="text-align:center;"|33 |- |US ''Billboard'' Hot Soul Singles<ref>{{cite book |title= Top R&B/Hip-Hop Singles: 1942-2004|last=Whitburn |first=Joel |authorlink=Joel Whitburn |year=2004 |publisher=Record Research |page=213}}</ref> | style="text-align:center;"|10 |- |US ''Cash Box'' Top 100<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://tropicalglen.com/Archives/70s_files/19731117.html |title=Cash Box Top 100 Singles, November 17, 1973 |access-date=February 19, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161227195709/http://tropicalglen.com/Archives/70s_files/19731117.html |archive-date=December 27, 2016 |url-status=dead }}</ref> | style="text-align:center;"|30 |}

==References== {{Reflist}}

==External links== * [http://lyrics.wikia.com/wiki/Four_Tops:Sweet_Understanding_Love Lyrics of this song] * {{YouTube|dDFXWRPrlnU|Four Tops - Sweet Understanding Love}}

Category:1973 songs Category:1973 singles Category:Four Tops songs Category:Songs written by Dennis Lambert Category:Songs written by Brian Potter (musician) Category:ABC Records singles