Playboy (The Marvelettes album)

This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Find sources: "Playboy" The Marvelettes album – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (June 2021) (Learn how and when to remove this template message)

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[1]
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music	[2]
The Rolling Stone Album Guide	[3]

Playboy is the third

Superscript denotes lead singer: (a) Gladys Horton, (b) Wanda Young

Side 1

1. "
   William Stevenson, Robert Bateman
   ) ^a
2. "Mix It Up" (William Stevenson) ^a
3. "Beechwood 4-5789" (Marvin Gaye, George Gordy) ^a
4. "I'm Hooked" (
   Berry Gordy, Jr.
   ) ^a
5. "I Think I Can Change You" (William Robinson) ^a

Side 2

1. "Forever" (Brian Holland, Lamont Dozier, Freddie Gorman) ^b
2. "Someday, Someway" (Brian Holland, Lamont Dozier, Freddie Gorman) ^a
3. "Goddess of Love" (Lamont Dozier) ^b
4. "You Should Know" (Brian Holland, Janie Bradford, Stanley Ossman) ^a
5. "(I've Got To) Cry Over You" (Berry Gordy, Jr.) ^a

Personnel

The Mervelettes

• Gladys Horton – lead and background vocals
• Wanda Young – lead and background vocals
• Georgeanna Tillman – background vocals
• Katherine Anderson – background vocals
• Wyanetta "Juanita" Cowart
  – background vocals

with:

• Marvin Gaye – producer, drums on "Beechwood 4-5789"
• William "Mickey" Stevenson
  – producer
• George Gordy – producer
• Raynoma Liles Gordy – Hammond organ
  on "Forever" and "Someday, Someday"
• The Funk Brothers – other instrumentation^[4]
  • Joe Hunter – piano on "Playboy", "Forever" and "Someday, Someday"
  • Richard "Popcorn" Wylie – piano on "Beechwood 4-5789"
  • James Jamerson – bass on "Playboy" and "Beechwood 4-5789"
  • Clarence Isabell – bass on "Forever" and "Someday, Someday"
  • Benny Benjamin – drums on "Playboy", "Forever" and "Someday, Someday"
  • Eddie Willis – guitar on "Playboy", "Beechwood 4-5789", "Forever" and "Someday, Someday"
  • Hank Cosby
    – tenor saxophone on "Playboy", "Beechwood 4-579", "Forever" and "Someday, Someday"
  • Andrew "Mike" Terry
    – baritone saxophone on "Playboy", "Beechwood 4-5789", "Forever" and "Someday, Someday"
  • Eddie "Bongo" Brown
    – percussion on "Beechwood 4-5789"

References

External links

• Don't Forget the Motor City
• Don't Forget the Motor City

This 1960s R&B/soul album-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.

• v
• t
• e