Your Old Standby

Your Old Standby

Infobox Single
Name = Your Old Standby
Artist = Mary Wells
from Album = Mary Wells' Greatest Hits
Format = 7" single
B-side = What Love Has Joined Together
Released = 1963
Recorded = 1963, Hitsville USA
Genre = Soul
Label = Motown
M 1042
Writer = Smokey Robinson
Janie Bradford
Producer = Smokey Robinson
Last single = "Laughing Boy"
(1963)
This single = "Your Old Standby"
(1963)
Next single = "What's So Easy for Two Is So Hard for One"
(1963)

"Your Old Standby" is a song written by Motown songwriters Smokey Robinson and Janie Bradford and released as a single by Motown star Mary Wells in 1963. The record marked her third top forty pop single to come out in 1963.

ong information

In the song, the narrator opens up about a man who is still in a troubling relationship with one woman while having a relationship with another woman. The other woman struggles to comprehend why her lover refuses to leave his past flame so she could "be with him permanently" as she puts it in the end.

Chart status

After the successful but modest response to "Laughing Boy", this song was rushed trying to compete with that record's top 15 peak. However, this song got as high as number 40 on the Billboard Hot 100. Wells' next Robinson-penned hit, "What's So Easy for Two is Hard for One" would fare better for Wells.

Credits

*Lead vocal by Mary Wells
*Background vocals by The Andantes
*Instrumentation by The Funk Brothers


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