Patches (Chairmen of the Board song)

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"Patches"
Single by Clarence Carter
B-side
  • "Say It One More Time"
  • (most countries)
  • "I Can't Leave Your Love Alone"
  • (UK)[1]
ReleasedJuly 1970
Recorded1970
Genre
Length3:10
LabelAtlantic
Songwriter(s)Ron Dunbar, General Johnson
Producer(s)Rick Hall
Clarence Carter singles chronology
"I Can't Leave Your Love Alone"
(1970) 		"Patches"
(1970) 		"It's All in Your Mind"
(1970)

"Patches" (sometimes known as "Patches (I'm Depending On You)")

country soul song written by General Johnson and Ron Dunbar and best known as the 1970 hit version by Clarence Carter. It won the 1971 Grammy Award for Best Rhythm & Blues Song
.

Chairmen of the Board

The song was written by General Johnson, the lead singer of

music publishing arm Jobete to which they had been contracted.[3]

The song tells a story about how a boy born and raised in poverty in

B-side of the group's July 1970 single, "Everything's Tuesday", their third chart hit.[4][5]

Clarence Carter

The blind blues singer Clarence Carter heard the song, later saying: "I heard it on the Chairmen of the Board LP and liked it, but I had my own ideas about how it should be sung. It was my idea to make the song sound real natural..."[6] Initially he thought "that it would be degrading for a black man to sing a song so redolent of subjugation," but was persuaded to do so by record producer Rick Hall.[7]

Carter recorded the song at the

R&B chart,[10] and No. 2 on the UK singles chart.[11]

Following Carter's success, the song won the 1971 Grammy Award for Best Rhythm & Blues Song for its writers, Johnson and Dunbar.[12]

Chart history

Other versions

A

B.B. King on the album Rhythm, Country and Blues in 1994.[22]

A parody version of the song performed by Joe Cumia, brother of Anthony Cumia of Opie and Anthony fame, titled "Black Earl" was often played on the Ron and Fez show.

Marvin

"Marvin (Patches)"
Single by Titãs
from the album Go Back
Released1988
GenreRock
LabelWEA
Producer(s)Liminha
Titãs singles chronology
"Família"
(1987) 		"Marvin (Patches)"
(1988) 		"Flores"
(1989)

In 1984, the song was rewritten and rearranged in

Acústico MTV
, becoming a hit in Brazil.

Cover versions

See also

References

  1. ^ "Clarence Carter - Patches".
  2. ^ "Patches" on Gusto label, Discogs.com. Retrieved 6 September 2014
  3. ^ Bob Dennis, "Our Motown Recording Heritage - Part 16", Recording Engineers Quarterly, 2002 Archived 2009-01-06 at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved 6 September 2014
  4. ^ Hamilton, Andrew. "Give Me Just a Little More Time - Chairmen of the Board". allmusic.com. Retrieved 6 September 2014.
  5. ^ "Everything's Tuesday"' Discogs.com. Retrieved 6 September 2014
  6. ^ a b "Patches", Songfacts.com. Retrieved 6 September 2014
  7. ^ Mick Brown, "Deep Soul: How Muscle Shoals became music's most unlikely hit factory", The Telegraph, 2013. Retrieved 6 September 2014
  8. ^ Billboard, 11 July 1970, p.80. Retrieved 6 September 2014
  9. ISBN 0-89820-155-1
    .
  10. ^ a b Whitburn, Joel (1996). Top R&B/Hip-Hop Singles: 1942-1995. Record Research. p. 67.
  11. ^
    ISBN 0-00-717931-6
    .
  12. ^ Grammy Awards 1971. Retrieved 6 September 2014
  13. ^
    ISBN 0-646-11917-6
    .
  14. ^ "Item Display - RPM - Library and Archives Canada". Collectionscanada.gc.ca. 17 July 2013. Retrieved 2018-07-09.
  15. ^ "The Irish Charts – Search Results – Patches". Irish Singles Chart. Retrieved June 6, 2018.
  16. ISBN 0-89820-089-X
  17. ^ Cash Box Top 100 Singles, September 19, 1970
  18. ^ "Item Display - RPM - Library and Archives Canada". Collectionscanada.gc.ca. 1970-11-14. Retrieved 2018-07-09.
  19. The Official Charts Company
    . Retrieved 16 June 2012.
  20. ^ Musicoutfitters.com
  21. ^ "Cash Box Year-End Charts: Top 100 Pop Singles, December 26, 1970". Archived from the original on July 22, 2019. Retrieved July 22, 2018.
  22. ^ a b "Patches", SecondhandSongs.com. Retrieved 6 September 2014
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