Post by timmy84 on Jul 15, 2006 15:17:30 GMT -5
Ok, since u guys were a little 
about my last pick for song of the week (trust me, find a greatest hits that has that song on it, you will love it :love: ), I'm gonna pick a song I think you will recognize.
It's "In My Lonely Room". Now this song was truly an early highlight for Martha, Roz and Annette. This was also reportedly the last single featuring Ms. Sterling, who left to raise a family. The song was released at the peak of the girl group era and was the calm before the storm that was to come ("Dancing in the Street").
I love how in the collection I got they segued from their early gospel-influenced dance records to the blues-based stuff they did as a result of "Dancing". Anyway, Lamont Dozier is probably the greatest lyricist of all time. He knew the right words to say and most of the records he wrote were really SAD! This song was no exception. Most of the songs they actually did with Martha and the Vandellas (and the Supremes and later Honey Cone) all had to deal with sadness or anger.
This song was pure sadness if you read the lyrics. Martha's ticked off that all her lover wants to do is flirt with all the other girls leaving her in the cold, having people whisper around her about what he was doing. It's too much she goes back to her room and cries her heart out.
Done in a pulsating beat, though it opens very solemnly with the drums (by Benny Benjamin) at first quieting with the vibes (by Jack Ashford) and guitar work (by Robert White and Eddie Willis) until Benny rips it and the horns jump in. I believe Henry Cosby contributed to the solo sax work in a lot of '60s Motown songs including this one if I'm not mistaken and he has a fine solo in this song while the Vandellas (Roz and Annette) hum harmoniously in the background before Martha explains further in her agony often saying she would pretend she didn't mind him flirting when she really did.
The song could've been a bigger charted hit than it did but we know NOW that it is a Martha and the Vandellas CLASSIC. It was a unique song by a unique group that deserves its place here for discussion.
Lyrics:
Every single time you take me out with you
You always flirt around with someone new
But I never criticize the tearful things you do
'Cause I'm so afraid of losing you
But in my lonely room
Tears I don't have to hide
'Cause I just lock my door and let myself go
And lay right down and cry
(Instrumental)
Every place we go
People are whispering about your flirting ways
And it hurts me so to hear
But in the public's eye I just push it behind
All my hurt aside and pretend I don't mind
But in my lonely room
Tears I don't have to hide
In my lonely, lonely, lonely, lonely room
Push my pride aside
And lay right down and cry
In my lonely room
In my lonely room
I let myself go
Lay right down and cry...
:woahisme: :girlgroup:
about my last pick for song of the week (trust me, find a greatest hits that has that song on it, you will love it :love: ), I'm gonna pick a song I think you will recognize.It's "In My Lonely Room". Now this song was truly an early highlight for Martha, Roz and Annette. This was also reportedly the last single featuring Ms. Sterling, who left to raise a family. The song was released at the peak of the girl group era and was the calm before the storm that was to come ("Dancing in the Street").
I love how in the collection I got they segued from their early gospel-influenced dance records to the blues-based stuff they did as a result of "Dancing". Anyway, Lamont Dozier is probably the greatest lyricist of all time. He knew the right words to say and most of the records he wrote were really SAD! This song was no exception. Most of the songs they actually did with Martha and the Vandellas (and the Supremes and later Honey Cone) all had to deal with sadness or anger.
This song was pure sadness if you read the lyrics. Martha's ticked off that all her lover wants to do is flirt with all the other girls leaving her in the cold, having people whisper around her about what he was doing. It's too much she goes back to her room and cries her heart out.
Done in a pulsating beat, though it opens very solemnly with the drums (by Benny Benjamin) at first quieting with the vibes (by Jack Ashford) and guitar work (by Robert White and Eddie Willis) until Benny rips it and the horns jump in. I believe Henry Cosby contributed to the solo sax work in a lot of '60s Motown songs including this one if I'm not mistaken and he has a fine solo in this song while the Vandellas (Roz and Annette) hum harmoniously in the background before Martha explains further in her agony often saying she would pretend she didn't mind him flirting when she really did.
The song could've been a bigger charted hit than it did but we know NOW that it is a Martha and the Vandellas CLASSIC. It was a unique song by a unique group that deserves its place here for discussion.
Lyrics:
Every single time you take me out with you
You always flirt around with someone new
But I never criticize the tearful things you do
'Cause I'm so afraid of losing you
But in my lonely room
Tears I don't have to hide
'Cause I just lock my door and let myself go
And lay right down and cry
(Instrumental)
Every place we go
People are whispering about your flirting ways
And it hurts me so to hear
But in the public's eye I just push it behind
All my hurt aside and pretend I don't mind
But in my lonely room
Tears I don't have to hide
In my lonely, lonely, lonely, lonely room
Push my pride aside
And lay right down and cry
In my lonely room
In my lonely room
I let myself go
Lay right down and cry...
:woahisme: :girlgroup:
