Does anyone suspect that John possibly sung this to Cynthia? Seeing as he wrote a lot of letters during this time and the lyrics? Have a listen, closely. When I was a kid. It was these early songs that grabbed me. This was definitely one of them. Great vocal. Much better than the original.
This cover is absolutely Perfect. Everything about it is Perfect. There is nothing more to say, because it is Perfect. The second album was slightly better than the first, inasmuch as we spent more time on it, and there were more original songs. Latest Comments. Could The Beatles do the song justice? On the surface, you can understand their reasoning, but after three million copies of the album had been sold by mid March, Capitol was ready to rush-release another album to cash in on the excitement.
Songwriting History. You would think that taking a look at the label on the original record would solve this issue, but that is not the case. To solve the mystery we need to look at the history of the song. Although they performed well, they were required to come back with their own original song. Georgia Dobbins took it upon herself to take a blues song written by a friend of hers named William Garrett and rework it for the group to perform at a later audition for Motown.
W ith this new song, they passed the second audition, but not until their name was changed from the plain-sounding according to Gordy Marvels to the Marvelettes. Brian Holland also had a songwriting partner named Freddie Gorman an actual Detroit postman who was enlisted for the final touches on the song.
When the Marvelettes turned up at the studio to record their first song, Georgia Dobbins was not present. They both were members of an early Motown vocal group called The Satintones , although Brian had previously released a solo single in under the name Bryant Holland.
Together, this trio worked as both songwriters and producers of an endless number of Motown hits which included 25 number one songs. Freddie Gorman passed away in California on June 13th, The Carpenters remade the 14 year old song, which became their third of three number one hits for the group. Recording History. This was the first of six songs The Beatles recorded on this day. The mono mix of the song was performed by George Martin and engineers Norman Smith and Geoff Emerick on August 21st, , along with the rest of the tracks recorded thus far for the album.
The same studio team along with the mysterious B. These are the mono and stereo mixes that appeared in the US as well, albeit with some extra reverb added by the Capitol team. For assistance, contact your corporate administrator. Arrow Created with Sketch.
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Home About. Please Mr. The Marvelettes and Please Mr. Postman : The Marvelettes started out as a girl-group quintet who were high school classmates in Inkster, Michigan, a suburb of Detroit. Like this: Like Loading He studies the properties of the quarks and gluons that form the internal structure of protons and neutrons. He also writes a blog "Tim's Cover Story" that compares covers of important songs in rock music history. From to , he and his wife shared their college-town experiences with two delightful cats, siblings Lewis and Clark, who enormously enriched their lives.
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