"It's Gonna Take A Miracle"

[Marc Wielage]

In article <50knbv$o...@juliana.sprynet.com>, ca...@sprynet.com (Al Camus) wrote:

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> Did anyone sing this song before the Shirelles? Also--was this song
> released in the late sixties or was it one of their many "come-back"
> attempts?
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The Shirelles may have sung it, but it was The Royalettes who had a #41
hit with it back in September of 1965. This is the same song that Deniece
Williams later covered as a #10 hit in the Summer of 1982.

--MFW

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[John Frank]

>In article <50knbv$o...@juliana.sprynet.com>, ca...@sprynet.com (Al Camus) wrote:

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>> Did anyone sing this song before the Shirelles? Also--was this song
>> released in the late sixties or was it one of their many "come-back"
>> attempts?
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The Shirelles never recorded it ...on Scepter anyway.

It was one of two hits by the Royalettes. Re-recorded later by Laura
Nyro and Labelle.

John

[Philip M Healy]

Marc Wielage wrote:
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> In article <50knbv$o...@juliana.sprynet.com>, ca...@sprynet.com (Al Camus) wrote:
>
> > X-no-archive:yes
> >
> >
> > Did anyone sing this song before the Shirelles? Also--was this song
> > released in the late sixties or was it one of their many "come-back"
> > attempts?
> >
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>

> The Shirelles may have sung it, but it was The Royalettes who had a #41
> hit with it back in September of 1965. This is the same song that Deniece
> Williams later covered as a #10 hit in the Summer of 1982.
>
> --MFW
>

Laura Nyro also did a version around about 1970, with backup vocals by
Labelle.

Phil Healy

[David W. Tamkin]

ca...@sprynet.com (Al Camus) wrote in <50knbv$o...@juliana.sprynet.com>:

| Did anyone sing this song before the Shirelles? Also--was this song
| released in the late sixties or was it one of their many "come-back"
| attempts?

If the Shirelles recorded it, that's news to me. The hit single versions
were by the Royalettes ca. 1965 and by Deniece Williams in the 1980's.

It's also the title track of a latter-day album by Laura Nyro and Labelle,
but only the Royalettes' version fits this newsgroup's time frame.

[Jay B.]

On 6 Sep 1996 15:15:27 -0500, dat...@sashimi.wwa.com (David W.
Tamkin) wrote:

Did anyone notice that this song sounds just like Smokey's Ooh Baby
Baby?

[John Frank]

bl...@voicenet.com (Jay B.) wrote:

>Did anyone notice that this song sounds just like Smokey's Ooh Baby
>Baby?

Um, no. I just listened to them back-to-back and except for a
similarity in a set of notes (don't know the technical term for
this--sorry), the fact that they're both laments on lost love, and
that they both have "oo"s in them, to my ear, that's where the
similarity ends.

John Frank