The One Who Really Loves You (song)

The One Who Really Loves You (song)

Infobox Single
Name = The One Who Really Loves You
Artist = Mary Wells
from Album = The One Who Really Loves You


Format = 7" single
Released = 1962
Recorded = Hitsville USA; 1962
Genre = Soul
Length = 2:30
Label = Motown
M 1024
Writer = Smokey Robinson
Producer = Smokey Robinson
Chart position =
*#2 (Billboard R&B chart)
*#8 (US Pop Singles)
Reviews =
Last single = "Strange Love"
(1961)
This single = "The One Who Really Loves You"
(1962)
Next single = "You Beat Me to the Punch"
(1962)

"The One Who Really Loves You" is a single recorded by Mary Wells on the Motown label in 1962. It was written and composed by Smokey Robinson of The Miracles and peaked at #8 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart and #2 on the Billboard R&B chart.

The song, written by Smokey Robinson, talks about a woman who's telling her boyfriend not to fall for other girls, because they don't want him, and their love isn't true, but hers is, so she's telling him that he "better wake up" before they "break up".

The single was the first of a trio of Top Ten hits with Robinson in the year (followed by "You Beat Me to the Punch" and "Two Lovers"). It featured vibraphone production and brought out a softer sound in Wells' voice that hadn't been shown in her earlier releases. [Hamilton, Andrew [http://wm05.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=33:dbfoxzedldje| The One Who Really Loves You song review] Allmusic. Retrieved on 2007-10-07] The single was the highest charting single of her career at the time.

References

Credits

*Lead vocal by Mary Wells
*Background vocals by The Love Tones
*Instrumentation by The Funk Brothers
*Written and produced by Smokey Robinson


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