<P> With the recent release of a previously unreleased version of "It's the Same Old Song" recorded by the Supremes, the truth of the events on how the song came together for the Four Tops is put into question . Holland - Dozier - Holland originally wrote and cut a track of "It's the Same Old Song" for the Supremes in May 1965 before the Four Tops' version in July of that year . This first version would remain unreleased until 2017 . A second version was cut in a very similar style to the Four Tops' version would be released in 1967 on The Supremes Sing Holland - Dozier - Holland . </P> <P> After "I Can't Help Myself (Sugar Pie, Honey Bunch)" hit #1 in June 1965, The Four Tops' former label, Columbia Records, wanting to cash in on the group's success, re-released the Tops' 1960 Columbia single "Ain't That Love". Berry Gordy ordered that a new Four Tops single had to be released within a day's time . </P> <P> At 3: 00 PM that afternoon, the Holland brothers and Lamont Dozier wrote "It's the Same Old Song". Four Tops tenor Abdul "Duke" Fakir recalled: </P> <Table> <Tr> <Td> "</Td> <Td> (Songwriter), Lamont Dozier and I were both a little tipsy and he was changing the channels on the radio . He said,' It sounds like the same old song .' And then he said, "Wait a minute ." So he took "I Can't Help Myself (Sugar Pie Honey Bunch)" and reversed it using the same chord changes . The next day, we went to the studio and recorded it, and then they put it on acetate, shipped it out to disc jockeys across the country ." </Td> <Td>" </Td> </Tr> </Table>

It the same old song with a different meaning