You Lost the Sweetest Boy
- You Lost the Sweetest Boy
Infobox Single
Name = You Lost the Sweetest Boy
Artist = Mary Wells
from Album = Mary Wells' Greatest Hits
Format = 7" single
A-side = What's So Easy for Two Is So Hard for One
Released = 1963
Recorded = 1963
Genre = Soul
Label = Motown
Writer = Holland-Dozier-Holland
Producer = Lamont Dozier
Brian Holland
Last single = "What's So Easy for Two Is So Hard for One"
(1963)
This single = "You Lost the Sweetest Boy"
(1963)
Next single = "My Guy"
(1964)
"You Lost the Sweetest Boy" is a song written by Holland-Dozier-Holland and released as a single by Motown star Mary Wells. The song is most prominent by featuring background vocals by The Supremes and The Temptations.
ong information
In this song, the narrator of the song gets back at a girl whom she says always chased after other boys while supposedly with a boyfriend. The narrator ends up winning the girl's boyfriend's affections and before she knew it, the boyfriend had left her for the narrator causing her to chant, "you lost the sweetest boy that you had that time".
Release and chart status
Released in late 1963, the single reached number 22 on the Billboard Hot 100 and number 10 on the R&B chart.
Credits
*Lead vocal by Mary Wells
*Background vocals by The Supremes and The Temptations
*Instrumentation by The Funk Brothers
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