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For other uses, see “Bernadette.“ “Bernadette’‘‘“ is a 1967 hit song recorded by the Four Tops for the Motown label. Written and produced by Motown’s main production team, Holland–Dozier–Holland, the song is one of the most well-known Motown tunes of the 1960s. Depicting a man’s excessive desire for and jealousy over his girlfriend, the song reached #4 on the Billboard Hot 100, and was The Four Tops’s final Top 10 hit of the 1960s. In 1972, the song “Keeper of the Castle” would return them to the Top 10 charts. “Bernadette” was known for its false ending, when the chorus holds a long cadence note and then Levi Stubbs shouts out the title and goes on with his insecure passions as the song ends in a fade out. Read on...