Use Your Head

Use Your Head

Infobox Single
Name = Use Your Head
Artist = Mary Wells
from Album = Mary Wells
Format = 7" single
B-side = Everlovin' Boy
Released = 1964
Recorded = 1964
Genre = Soul/pop
Length = 2:08
Label = 20th Century Fox
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Writer = Barrett Strong
Chuck Barksdale
Wade Flemons
Producer = Andre Williams
Riley Hampton
Last single = "Ain't It the Truth"
(1964)
This single = "Use Your Head"
(1964)
Next single = "Stop Taking Me for Granted"
(1964)

"Use Your Head" is a soulful pop song written by Barrett Strong, Wade Flemons and The Dells' Chuck Barksdale and released as a single by former Motown singer Mary Wells on the 20th Century Fox label.

Overview

ong information

The single showcases the narrator telling her lover to think before he made some costly decisions based on advice given to him by one of his best friends warning her lover to "use his head" before he ends up "losing the best love he ever had".

Release and reaction

The song was one of the few successful post-Motown singles Wells recorded. The song registered at number 34 on the Billboard Hot 100 and number 13 on the R&B singles chart.

Credits

*Lead vocal by Mary Wells
*Background vocals by assorted singers
*Instrumentation by assorted musicians


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