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"Games People Play" is a song written, composed, and performed by American singer-songwriter Joe South, released in August 1968. [1] It entered the Billboard Hot 100 in January 1969 and won the 1970 Grammy Awards for both Best Contemporary Song and the Song of the Year .
"Games People Play" is a 1980 song by the Alan Parsons Project. It peaked at No. 16 on 14 March 1981 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart as well as No. 18 on Cash Box. [2] [3] It appears on the album The Turn of a Friendly Card and was sung by Lenny Zakatek.
"Games People Play", also known as " ' They Just Can't Stop It' The (Games People Play)", is a song recorded by American R&B vocal group The Spinners. Released in 1975 from their Pick of the Litter album, featuring lead vocals by Bobby Smith , it was a crossover success, spending a week at number one on the US Hot Soul Singles chart and peaking ...
Petula is a 1968 Pye Records album release by Petula Clark leased to Warner Bros. in the USA.. The two albums precedent to Petula: These Are My Songs and The Other Man's Grass Is Always Greener had been primarily produced by Sonny Burke with Tony Hatch, the producer/songwriter who'd established Clark as a top recording star in 1964, contributing only one track to each album.
Neither Clark, who was performing in Canada when the song first received major air play, [34] nor Hatch realised the effect the song would have on their respective careers. Released in four separate languages in late 1964, "Downtown" was a success in the UK, France (in both the English and the French versions), the Netherlands, Germany ...
These Are My Songs is a 1967 album released by Petula Clark. In a break with longtime collaborator Tony Hatch, Clark joined forces with producer Sonny Burke and arranger/conductor Ernie Freeman for this release. The album includes two songs that were released as singles.
The English language lyrics were written by Geoffrey Claremont Parsons, Nathan Korb (Francis Lemarque) and John Turner. In the United States, the best-selling version was recorded by the Gaylords, charting in 1954. In the United Kingdom, the song was the first charted hit for Petula Clark the same year. [1]
"I Know a Place" was Clark's second consecutive Top Ten hit in the United States, remaining on the charts for twelve weeks, [2] and five of the twelve weeks on the US charts were spent in the Top Ten, the song's fourth week at No. 9, the fifth & sixth week at No. 4, the seventh week at its peak No. 3, [3] then slipping in its eighth week to No. 6, the ninth week ending its turn in the Top Ten ...