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The Rolling Stones Songs - Tell Me (You're Coming Back)
The Rolling Stones - Tell Me (You're Coming Back)


The Rolling Stones - Tell Me (You're Coming Back) Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: The Rolling Stones
Released: 1964

Tell Me (You're Coming Back) Lyrics


Tell Me (You're Coming Back) Song Chart
  • This was the first Mick Jagger/Keith Richards composition. They wrote it when their manager, Andrew Oldham, locked them in his kitchen and told them to write some songs. At the time, The Stones were content to interpret songs written by other artists. This helped give Mick and Keith the confidence that they could be songwriters as well as performers.
  • A Pop ballad, this was a big departure from the Blues songs The Stones were covering at the time.
  • This was released as a single only in the US. It was their first Top 40 hit in America.
  • Keith Richards (1971): "Tell Me, which was pulled out as a single in America, was a dub. Half those records were dubs on that first album, that Mick and I and Charlie and I'd put a bass on or maybe Bill was there and he'd put a bass on Let's put it down while we remember it and the next thing we know is, Oh look, track 8 is that dub we did a couple months ago. That's how little control we had."
  • Mick Jagger (1995): "Keith was playing 12-string and singing harmonies into the same microphone as the 12-string. We recorded it in this tiny studio in the West End of London called Regent Sound, which was a demo studio. I think the whole of that album was recorded in there. But it's very different from doing those R&B covers or Marvin Gaye covers and all that. There's a definite feel about it. It's a very POP song, as opposed to all the blues covers and the Motown covers, which everyone did at the time." (thanks, Bertrand - Paris, France, for above 2)

  • RaeLynn Songs - Boyfriend
    RaeLynn - Boyfriend


    RaeLynn - Boyfriend Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

    Album: Me
    Released: 2012

    Boyfriend Lyrics


    Let's be honest we don't got a lot in common when it comes down to it
    You can take his breath away and light up every room when you walk through it
    But I don't want you six foot legs and angel face and sophistication
    Don't really want to causes scene but girl you got everything
    And I want your Boyfriend
    I'm not gonna lie
    I'll be his girl when he tells you good bye
    Don't worry I won't take him cause I ain't that low
    I want your boyfriend just thought you should know
    That he and I go back so far oh my gosh we lived in his first truck
    First time we heard Shania Twain I think we were on our way to Lubbcock
    And I know you think he loves you now
    Seen so many girls come in and out
    It sounds a bit insensitive
    But the truth is what it is
    I want your boyfriend
    I'm not gonna lie
    I'll be his girl when he tells you good bye
    Don't worry I won't take him cause I ain't that low
    I want your boyfriend just thought you should know, yeah
    Don't know why you act so surprised
    Can't you see it in his eyes
    You must have known it all this time
    Yeah
    That I want your boyfriend
    To tell you the truth I'll be right there when he gets over you
    What's meant to be will always find its way in the end
    I want your boyfriend
    I'm not gonna lie
    I'll be his girl when he tells you good bye
    Don't worry I won't take him cause I ain't that low
    I want your boyfriend
    I want your boyfriend
    I want your boyfriend
    Just thought you should know

    Writer/s: GALYON, NICOLLE ANNE / LYNN, RAE / STEELE, HAILEY
    Publisher: Warner/Chappell Music, Inc., BMG RIGHTS MANAGEMENT US, LLC
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

    Boyfriend Song Chart
  • RaeLynn penned this song with Hailey Steele and Nicolle Galyon. It was written about a male friend and his then-girlfriend, who didn't care for her hanging with him. "They're not dating anymore," she admitted to Taste of Country . "They were actually for a long time and then they stopped dating, and then I was kinda talking to him for a little bit, and it just didn't work out. We're just better friends."
  • Released as RaeLynn's debut single, this peaked at #32 on the country chart.

  • The Miracles Songs - The Tracks Of My Tears
    The Miracles - The Tracks Of My Tears


    The Miracles - The Tracks Of My Tears Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

    Album: Going To A Go-Go
    Released: 1965

    The Tracks Of My Tears Lyrics


    People say I'm the life of the party
    Because I tell a joke or two
    Although I might be laughing loud and hearty
    Deep inside I'm blue
    So take a good look at my face
    You'll see my smile looks out of place

    If you look closer, it's easy to trace
    The Tracks Of My Tears
    I need you, need you
    Since you left me if you see me with another girl
    Seeming like I'm having fun
    Although she may be cute

    She's just a substitute
    Because you're the permanent one
    So take a good look at my face
    You'll see my smile looks out of place
    If you look closer, it's easy to trace
    The tracks of my tears

    I need you, need you
    Outside I'm masquerading
    Inside my hope is fading
    Just a clown oh yeah
    Since you put me down
    My smile is my make up

    I wear since my break up with you
    So take a good look at my face
    You'll see my smile looks out of place
    If you look closer, it's easy to trace
    The tracks of my tears

    Writer/s: MOORE, WARREN / ROBINSON JR., WILLIAM / TARPLIN, MARVIN
    Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

    The Tracks Of My Tears Song Chart
  • One of the most gut-wrenching songs on record, this one is about a man who tries to hide his pain, but cannot conceal the tracks made by his tears. He has come out of a relationship with the love of his life, and the song is his confession to her that his high spirits are just an act and she's the only one for him, or perhaps what he wants to tell her but can't.

    Miracles leader Smokey Robinson came up with the concept when he was looking in the mirror one day, and thinking, What if a person would cry so much that you could see tracks of their tears in their face?
  • Miracles members Smokey Robinson, Warren Moore, and Marv Tarplin wrote this song. Robinson penned the lyrics; Tarplin, The Miracles' guitarist, came up with the riff. Robinson recalled: "'Tracks of My Tears' was actually started by Marv Tarplin, who is a young cat who plays guitar for our act. So he had this musical thing [sings melody], you know, and we worked around with it, and worked around, and it became 'Tracks of My Tears.'"
  • Tarplin got the idea for the music after listening to a calypso tune: Harry Belafonte's "The Banana Boat Song (Day-O)."
  • Robinson had the music Tarplin wrote on a cassette, but it took him about six months to write the lyrics. The words started coming together when he came up with the line, "Take a good look at my face, you see my smile looks out of place." From there, it was a few days before he got the lines, "If you look closer it's easy to trace... my tears."

    What to do with those tears was a problem, as he wanted to say something no one has said about tears. In a 2006 interview with NPR, he explained that he finally came up with the image of tears leaving lasting marks, and the song came together. "One day I was listening, and it just came - the tracks of my tears," said Robinson. "Like footprints on my face. So that was what I wrote about."
  • Four different artists have charted with this song in America. Johnny Rivers had the biggest hit, taking it to #10 in 1967. Two of the most acclaimed female vocalists of their time, Aretha Franklin and Linda Ronstadt, also charted covers, Franklin's making #71 in 1969 and Ronstadt's going to #25 in 1976.

    Other notable versions of this song include renditions by Go West in 1993 and Adam Lambert in 2009.
  • When he first recorded this song with The Miracles, Robinson left out the last chorus, fading it out on the "I need you, I need you" line. He was convinced to end on the chorus when he played the song at one of the famous Monday morning meetings at Motown, where songs were scrutinized by their team.
  • Robinson wrote a similar song a few weeks later called "My Girl Has Gone," which was released as the next Miracles single.
  • Motown head Berry Gordy has said that this song represents Smokey Robinson's best work.
  • The song was popular among American soldiers fighting in the Vietnam War, which is reflected in the 1986 Oliver Stone movie Platoon, where the song is used.

    Other films to feature the song include The Big Chill (1983), The Walking Dead (1995) and Bobby (2006). TV series to used the song include The Wonder Years and Wife Swap.

  • Rae Morris Songs - Do You Even Know?
    Rae Morris - Do You Even Know?


    Rae Morris - Do You Even Know? Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

    Album: Unguarded
    Released: 2014

    Do You Even Know? Lyrics


    Do You Even Know? Song Chart
  • Having found her name lending vocals to Bombay Bicycle Club and Clean Bandit, Rae Morris released her own album, Unguarded. This was the first single from the collection.
  • Speaking to The Sun, Rae Morris explained the background to the song. "I was in a bit of a situation where I needed everyone to know who I was and what I am trying to do here," she said. "It's a bit of a protest song against everything really and the pressure I was putting on myself."

  • The Rolling Stones Songs - Now I've Got A Witness (Like Uncle Phil and Uncle Jean)
    The Rolling Stones - Now I've Got A Witness (Like Uncle Phil and Uncle Jean)


    The Rolling Stones - Now I've Got A Witness (Like Uncle Phil and Uncle Jean) Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

    Album: The Rolling Stones
    Released: 1964

    Now I've Got A Witness (Like Uncle Phil and Uncle Jean) Lyrics


    Now I've Got A Witness (Like Uncle Phil and Uncle Jean) Song Chart
  • Uncle Phil is Phil Spector, a legendary producer who was friends with The Stones. Uncle Gene is Gene Pitney, a singer who wrote the Stones' "That Girl Belongs To Yesterday." They were frequent visitors at The Stones' recording sessions.
  • This is an instrumental The Stones recorded at the same session where they covered "Can I Get A Witness." Some of the keyboards were taken from that song.
  • This was credited to Nanker Phelge, a goofy name for a Jagger/Richards composition. "Nanker" was a wacky face they would make to amuse each other, "Phelge" was a roommate of Keith Richards whom he considered "The most disgusting person ever."
  • Ian Stewart played organ on this. Sometimes considered "The Sixth Stone," he also played on sessions for Led Zeppelin and formed his own outfit with Charlie Watts, Alexis Korner and Jack Bruce in the late '70s and early '80s called Rocket 88. After his death in 1985, The Stones played their only concert in a 7-year period at a London club in February 1986 as a tribute to Stewart. (thanks, Bertrand - Paris, France)

  • Sigma Songs - Higher
    Sigma - Higher


    Sigma - Higher Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

    Album: Life
    Released: 2015

    Higher Lyrics


    I have given all myself
    All that I had left to give
    All the reasons I confront
    No more reason left to live
    If that ain't enough, oh, no, no
    Tell me why it's not enough

    Even when you let me down
    I forgive you in the end
    What goes round comes back around
    So I'll wait for you till then
    If that's not enough, oh, no, no
    Tell me what would be enough, be enough, be enough, be enough

    And what is love
    If you're still searching for something?
    And what is love
    If it's building up to nothing?
    We'll never see how far we've come
    But we keep looking at the sun
    So what is love
    If we're still searching for something?

    Get Higher, higher, higher
    We keep looking up
    Higher, higher, higher
    But we're still not high enough
    Higher, higher, higher
    We keep looking up
    Higher, higher, higher
    But we're still not high enough

    Take my heart back from your hands
    And my pride back from your sheets
    I'll believe while I still can
    Taking back the best of me
    If this ain't enough, no, no, no
    Then I guess I've had enough, had enough, had enough, had enough

    And what is love
    If you're still searching for something?
    And what is love
    If it's building up to nothing?
    We'll never see how far we've come
    But we keep looking at the sun
    So what is love
    If we're still searching for something?

    Get higher, higher, higher
    We keep looking up
    Higher, higher, higher
    But we're still not high enough
    Higher, higher, higher
    We keep looking up
    Higher, higher, higher
    But we're still not high enough

    Writer/s: KELLEHER, PETER NORMAN CULLEN / KOHN, BENJAMIN ALEXANDER / HULL, THOMAS EDWARD PERCY / HECTOR, WAYNE ANTHONY / BARNES, THOMAS ANDREW SEARLE
    Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Group
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

    Higher Song Chart
  • The third single released from Sigma's debut album Life, the song features guest vocals by Labrinth. The track was released via 3 Brat on March 22, 2015.
  • The song was co-written by TMS and Wayne Hector, the same people who penned Sigma's second single "Changing."

  • You Better Than Me by Judas Priest Songs - Better
    You Better Than Me by Judas Priest - Better


    You Better Than Me by Judas Priest - Better Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

    Album: Stained Class
    Released: 1978

    Better Lyrics


    You could find a way to ease my passion
    You listen to the blood flow in my veins
    You hear the teaching of the wind
    Tell her why I'm alive within
    I can't find the words
    My mind is dead
    It's Better by you better than me

    Guess you'll have to tell her how I tried
    To speak up thoughts I've held so inside
    Tell her now I got to go
    Out in the streets and down the shore
    Tell her the world's not much living for
    It's better by you better than me

    Everybody
    Everybody knows
    Everybody
    Everybody knows
    Better by you better than me

    You can tell what I want it to be
    You can say what I only can see
    It's better by you better than me

    Guess I'll have to change my way of living
    Don't wanna really know the way I feel
    Guess I'll learn to fight and kill
    Tell her not to wait until
    They'll find my blood upon her windowsill
    It's better by you better than me

    Everybody
    Everybody knows
    Everybody
    Everybody knows
    Better by you better than me

    You can say what I only can see
    You can tell what I want it to be

    It's better by you better than me

    Better by you better than me

    You can tell what I want it to be
    You can say way all they can see

    Better by you better than me

    Writer/s: WRIGHT, GARY
    Publisher: Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd.
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

    Better Song Chart
  • This is not a Judas Priest original - it was first recorded by the British rock band Spooky Tooth on their 1969 album Spooky Two and written by their keyboard player/vocalist Gary Wright, famous for his solo hit "Dream Weaver." On December 23, 1985, this relatively obscure cover song became part of a music censorship controversy when 18-year old Raymond Belknap of Nevada killed himself with a shotgun after listening to the Stained Class album while smoking pot and drinking beer. His friend James Vance was with him and also shot himself (apparently they made a suicide pact), but survived another three years. After Vance died, the families of the men filed suit against Judas Priest and their record company, claiming the words "Do It" were subliminally embedded in the song, and encouraged their children to kill themselves.

    Earlier in the 1988, a similar lawsuit against Ozzy Osbourne over his song "Suicide Solution" was dismissed on the grounds that music was protected under the first amendment, so the plaintiffs in the Nevada case took a different approach: instead of claiming that the lyrics compelled the teenagers to kill themselves, they claimed the subliminal messages did, and the Judas Priest was negligent for putting them in. The case was dismissed after a 17-day trial, with the judge ruling that the messages were not put there on purpose. The 1990 ruling stated: "The plaintiffs did not lose this case because defendants proved that subliminal stimuli have no effect on human behavior. Rather, plaintiffs lost this case because they failed to prove that defendants intentionally placed subliminal messages on the album and that those messages were a cause of the suicide."

  • Sophia Grace Songs - Best Friends
    Sophia Grace - Best Friends


    Sophia Grace - Best Friends Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

    Album: Single Release Only
    Released: 2015

    Best Friends Lyrics


    Best Friends Song Chart
  • Sophia Grace Brownlee first came to the public attention when at the age of eight, she performed Nicki Minaj's "Super Bass" on the Ellen show with the help of her five-year-old cousin Rosie. Their performance went viral on YouTube, accumulating over 80 million views. The two girls became recurring cast members on the show, hosting their own segment, called Tea Time with Sophia Grace & Rosie. The preteen pair became correspondents, doing celebrity reports from the red carpet and also starred in a full-length movie, Sophia Grace & Rosie's Royal Adventure. This song about having fun with your friends was released as Sophia's second solo single and became her first Hot 100 hit.
  • Sophia told Billboard magazine how the song came together. "We received a demo called 'Best Friends,' and my dad and I loved it," she said. "I was so excited to go into the studio and put my vocals on it."

    "My dad wrote a rap verse and I added that into the song," Sophia added. "I love the message in the song and I think it's a great jam for all girls to dance and sing along to."

  • Neil Young Songs - Only Love Can Break Your Heart
    Neil Young - Only Love Can Break Your Heart


    Neil Young - Only Love Can Break Your Heart Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

    Album: After The Goldrush
    Released: 1970

    Only Love Can Break Your Heart Lyrics


    Only Love Can Break Your Heart Song Chart
  • It was rumored that this was about Steven Stills, but Young later admitted it was about one of his other band mates, Graham Nash.
  • This was Neil Young's first Top 40 hit as a solo artist.
  • Young's former bandmate Steven Stills covered this song in 1984.
  • A version by Everlast was used in the 1999 Adam Sandler movie Big Daddy.
  • This is the first track on After The Goldrush. The entire album is acoustic.
  • The English band Saint Etienne had a hit in 1990 with their cover version of this song. It peaked at #39 on the UK Singles Chart and two years later became the group's only entry in the US Billboard Hot 100, when it reached #97. Pete Wiggs of St Etienne recalled to Q magazine July 2012 regarding their version: "The official reaction from the Neil camp was, He has heard it. Not exactly ringing praise." He added: "(BBC Radio 1 DJ) Nicky Campbell once smashed our version live on air on his radio show. He was so outraged by what we'd done."
  • Over twenty artists and bands have released cover versions of the song.

  • The Wombats Songs - Greek Tragedy
    The Wombats - Greek Tragedy


    The Wombats - Greek Tragedy Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

    Album: Glitterbug
    Released: 2015

    Greek Tragedy Lyrics


    We're smashing mics in karaoke bars
    You're running late with half your make-up on
    This method acting might pay our bills
    But soon enough there'll be a different role to fill

    I love this feeling
    But I hate this part
    I wanted this to work so much
    I drew up our plans on a chart
    Cars are flipping, I'm in hot pursuit
    My character's strong but my head is loose

    She hits like ecstasy
    Comes up and bangs the sense out of me

    The tarot cards say it's not so bad
    And the blades rotate there's just no landing pad
    And better have said it but darling you're the best
    I'm just tired of falling up the Penrose steps

    I hate this feeling
    But I love this part
    She really wants to make it work
    And I clearly want to let it start
    We'll build a water slide
    As soon as I get home

    Oh and she hits like ecstasy
    Comes up and bangs the sense out of me
    It's wrong but surely worse to leave
    She hits like ecstasy
    So free up the cheaper seats
    Here comes a Greek Tragedy

    Writer/s: Murphy, Matthew Edward / Haggis, Daniel Joseph / Knudsen, Tord Oeverland
    Publisher: Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd.
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

    Greek Tragedy Song Chart
  • The gruesome music video was directed by Finn Keenan (The Strypes "She's So Fine") and features Skins star April Pearson as a deranged fan of the band. "We all die in the video," the band told FasterLouder "So as far as I'm concerned it's the best video ever made – until the one when we all kill each other."

  • Duran Duran Songs - Wild Boys
    Duran Duran - Wild Boys


    Duran Duran - Wild Boys Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

    Album: Arena
    Released: 1984

    Wild Boys Lyrics


    The Wild Boys are calling on their way back from the fire
    In August moon's surrender to a dust cloud on the rise
    Wild boys fallen far from glory
    Reckless and so hungered on the razors edge you trail
    Because there's murder by the roadside in a sore afraid new world

    They tried to break us, looks like they'll try again

    Wild boys never lose it
    Wild boys never chose this way
    Wild boys never close your eyes
    Wild boys always shine

    You got sirens for a welcome there's bloodstain for your pain
    And your telephone been ringing wile you're dancing in the rain
    Wild boys wonder where is glory
    Where is all you angels now the figureheads have fell
    And lovers war with arrows over secrets they could tell

    They tried to tame you looks like they'll try again

    Wild boys never lose it
    Wild boys never chose this way
    Wild boys never close your eyes
    Wild boys always shine

    Writer/s: TAYLOR, ANDY / LE BON, SIMON / RHODES, NICK / TAYLOR, JOHN / TAYLOR, ROGER
    Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

    Wild Boys Song Chart
  • This song is based on the 1971 novel of the same name by William Burroughs. In the book, packs of adolescent humanoids ravage the civilized nations of the Earth. When wholesale slaughter erupts, the battle continues underground where the survivors evolve into The Wild Boys.

    Duran Duran recorded the song because Russell Mulcahy, who directed their videos, bought the movie rights to the book and planned to make it into a film. The band wrote the song for the movie, which was never made.
  • At the time, this was the most expensive video ever made. It had a futuristic theme consistent with the book. Russell Mulcahy, whose work populated the early days of MTV, directed the video. He wanted to make a feature film based on the Wild Boys novel, but when that fell through he used many of his ideas for the movie in the video for this song.

    Mulcahy's other work with Duran Duran includes videos for "Rio," "Hungry Like The Wolf" and "Is There Something I Should Know?" He directed the first video to air on MTV in "Video Killed The Radio Star" and also directed videos for "Bette Davis Eyes," "Total Eclipse Of The Heart" and "Allentown."
  • The band wrote this song around the visuals they imagined for the Wild Boys film that was never made, thinking about what it would look like as they wrote it. Duran Duran was gaining a lot of popularity as a result of MTV, with videos for "Hungry Like The Wolf" and "Rio" in heavy rotation, but this was the first time they wrote a song specifically for the visuals, which ended up being the video for the song and not the movie. Another instance of crafting a song for a video is Thomas Dolby's "She Blinded Me With Science."
  • This contains themes of homosexuality, as the "Wild Boys" in Burroughs book were homosexual warriors.
  • Nile Rodgers produced this song. He was a leader of the '70s Disco group Chic.
  • This is the only new song on Duran Duran's live album Arena, which became the group's best-selling album. It's also the only studio track on the album.
  • In the video, there is a moment where Simon Le Bon is on a wheel and keeps being spun so that his head goes underwater. During the shoot, there was a point when he was dunked and not quite ready. This was after he had been in a boating accident where his yacht had overturned. (thanks, Kelly - Portland, OR)
  • In an early use of this marketing gimmick, the single was released with six different covers: one for each band member and another for the entire band. Duran Duran was popular enough that some fans did collect all 6 covers. (thanks, Donovan Berry - El Dorado, AR)
  • One of the woman in the video dancing among the Wild Boys is Perri Lister, who was Billy Idol's girlfriend (and his bride in the "White Wedding" video). Lister was a friend of the director Russell Mulcahy, who had her wearing gray body paint and white hair.

  • The Four Seasons Songs - Who Loves You
    The Four Seasons - Who Loves You


    The Four Seasons - Who Loves You Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

    Album: Who Loves You
    Released: 1975

    Who Loves You Lyrics


    Who Loves You, pretty baby?
    Who's gonna help you through the night?
    Who loves you, pretty mama?
    Who's always there to make it right?

    Who loves you, pretty baby?
    Who's gonna help you through the night?
    Who loves you, pretty mama?
    Who's always there to make it right?

    Who loves you?
    Who loves you, pretty baby?
    Who's gonna love you, mama?
    Who loves you?
    Who loves you, pretty baby?

    When tears are in your eyes and you can't find the way
    It's hard to make believe you're happy when you're gray
    Baby, when you're feelin' like you'll never see the mornin' light
    Come to me
    Baby, you'll see

    Who loves you, pretty baby?
    Who's gonna help you through the night?
    Who loves you, pretty mama?
    Who's always there to make it?

    Who loves you?
    Who loves you, pretty baby?
    Who's gonna love you, mama?
    Who loves you?
    Who loves you, pretty baby?

    And when you think the whole wide world has passed you by
    You keep on tryin', but you really don't know why
    Baby, when you need a smile to help the shadows drift away
    Come to me
    Baby, you'll see

    Who loves you, pretty baby?
    Who's gonna help you through the night?
    Who loves you, pretty mama?
    Who's always there to make it?

    Who loves you?
    Who's gonna love you, love you?
    Who's gonna love you?
    Who loves you?
    Who's gonna love you, love you?
    Who's gonna love you?

    Baby, baby
    Do do do do
    Come to me
    Baby, you'll see

    Who loves you, pretty baby?
    Who's gonna help you through the night?
    Who loves you, pretty mama?
    Who's always there to make it?

    Who loves you?
    Who's gonna love you, love you?
    Who's gonna love you?
    Who loves you?
    Who's gonna love you, love you?

    Writer/s: GAUDIO, BOB/PARKER, JUDY
    Publisher: EMI Music Publishing
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

    Who Loves You Song Chart
  • In this song, Four Seasons frontman Frankie Valli is addressing a girl who is clearly in a funk. He's asking her to think about who really loves her and who is going to get her through these tough times, hoping she'll finally realize it's him.

    The song was written by original Four Seasons member Bob Gaudio and a songwriter named Judy Parker, who later became his wife. Like many of the song Gaudio wrote for the group, the upbeat melody contrasts with a somber, lovelorn lyric. However, there is a bright spot. In our interview with Gaudio , he said: "'Who Loves You' is a dark lyric with a positive outcome: There's someone here for you, I'll take care of you. "
  • "Who Loves Ya, Baby" was the catchphrase of the actor Telly Savalas, who starred in the popular detective show Kojak from 1973-1978. Savalas also dabbled in music and released a single in 1975 called "Who Loves Ya Baby." Written by the Broadway composer Marvin Laird, the song finds Savalas imparting a sentiment similar to the Four Seasons song, as he sings:

    When you're needing it bad 'cause rough times you've had
    I'm gonna look at you and say, Who loves ya baby?


    So was the Four Seasons song inspired by Savalas and his famous phrase? Bob Gaudio told us: "Everything that goes in my brain, in my ear, gets processed. Did I hear that phrase? Sure. There's all kinds of inspiration. Did I specifically sit down and say, I'm going to write a song, 'Who Loves You,' because of Telly Savalas? No.

    I think John Lennon once said good songwriters don't borrow, they steal. And if he didn't say it, I said it. I'll take it."
  • In the '60s, The Four Seasons were one of the most successful groups in America, with a retro sound featuring Frankie Valli's falsetto. That sound fell out of favor late in the decade, and in 1972 the group signed a deal with Motown Records. Their Motown output had little success, and in 1974 they split from the label.

    By 1975, disco was starting its ascent and The Four Seasons were ready to ride that train. The group's '50s sound that was retro in the mid-'60s was now cutting-edge a decade later, as Valli's falsetto suited the disco groove perfectly. Now signed to Curb Records, "Who Loves You" was the group's first post-Motown single, and it brought them back in a big way. Their next single was an even bigger hit and just as groovy: "December 1963 (Oh What a Night)."
  • Various versions of this song were released. The single runs 4:04 and is backed by a disco version that goes 5:28. A Spanish version was also released called "Quien Te Ama."
  • The Who Loves You marked a new lineup for the group, which now had five members and played their own instruments (previous lineups used session musicians to back the vocalists). Original member Bob Gaudio was no longer performing with the group, but was their producer and contributed vocals and keyboards to their studio output. The lineup for this song was:

    Frankie Valli - vocals
    John Paiva - guitar, vocals
    Don Ciccone - bass, vocals
    Gerry Polci - drums, vocals
    Lee Shapiro - keyboards, string arrangement on this track

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