| 词条 | Your Old Standby |
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| name = Your Old Standby | cover = | alt = | type = single | artist = Mary Wells | album = Mary Wells' Greatest Hits | B-side = What Love Has Joined Together | released = 1963 | format = 7" single | recorded = 1963, Hitsville USA | studio = | venue = | genre = Soul | length = | label = Motown | writer = Smokey Robinson Janie Bradford | producer = Smokey Robinson | prev_title = Laughing Boy | prev_year = 1963 | next_title = What's So Easy for Two Is So Hard for One | next_year = 1963 }} "Your Old Standby" is a song written by Motown songwriters Smokey Robinson and Janie Bradford and released as a single by Motown star Mary Wells in 1963.[1] The record marked her third top forty pop single to come out in 1963. Song informationIn the song, the narrator opens up about a man who is still in a troubling relationship with one woman while having a relationship with another woman. The other woman struggles to comprehend why her lover refuses to leave his past flame so she could "be with him permanently" as she puts it in the end. Chart positionsAfter the successful but modest response to "Laughing Boy", this song was rushed trying to compete with that record's top 15 peak. However, this song got as high as number 40 on the Billboard Hot 100 (it did however made number 8 on the U.S. R&B charts).[2] Wells' next Robinson-penned hit, "What's So Easy for Two is Hard for One" would fare better for Wells. Personnel
References1. ^The Complete Motown Singles Vol 3: 1963 [CD liner notes]. New York: Hip-O Select/Motown/Universal Records. {{Mary Wells}}2. ^{{cite book |title= Top R&B/Hip-Hop Singles: 1942-2004|last=Whitburn |first=Joel |authorlink=Joel Whitburn |year=2004 |publisher=Record Research |page=617}} 7 : 1963 singles|Mary Wells songs|Songs written by Smokey Robinson|Songs written by Janie Bradford|Song recordings produced by Smokey Robinson|1963 songs|Motown singles |
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