The Hunter Gets Captured by the Game

"The Hunter Gets Captured by the Game" is a 1967 single by Motown Records girl group The Marvelettes, from their self-titled album of the same year. It was written by Smokey Robinson of The Miracles, and reached number two on the Billboard R&B chart and number 13 on the Hot 100. The song's general message was to a lover. In the song, lead singer Wanda Young-Rogers (wife of Miracles member Bobby Rogers) talks about how she had been stalking and preying on her lover, in search of his "ways and habits" so she could master a plan on how to catch him. But soon, everything goes wrong when she is caught by her own trap.

Credits

*Lead vocals by Wanda Young Rogers
*Background vocals by Gladys Horton, and Katherine Anderson; and The Andantes: Jackie Hicks, Marlene Barrow, and Louvain Demps
*Instrumentation by The Funk Brothers

Cover versions

Infobox Single
Name = The Hunter Gets Captured By The Game


Artist = Grace Jones
from Album = Warm Leatherette
B-side = "The Hunter Gets Captured By The Game"(reggae version)
Released = 1980
Format = 7" single
Recorded =
Genre = Disco
Length = A: 3.40, B: 3.15
Label = Island Records WIP6645
Writer = Smokey Robinson
Producer =
Certification =
Chart position =
Last single = "Private Life" (1980)
This single = "The Hunter Gets Captured By The Game" (1980)
Next single = "Breakdown" (1980)
Misc =

The song has been covered by a number of contemporaneous and more recent recording artists, including:
* Barbara McNair recorded a version of the song for her 1968 Motown album "The Real Barbara McNair"
* Jimmy Mack & The Music Factory on Atlantic Records 45 45-2552 b-side circa 1968.
* Ella Fitzgerald on "Ella" in 1969.
* Jerry Garcia on "Compliments" in 1974, as "When the Hunter Gets Captured by the Game".
* Grace Jones on "Warm Leatherette" in 1980, also released as the lead single in the US and fourth single in the UK.
* Blondie, on "The Hunter" in 1982.
* Massive Attack, with Tracey Thorn on vocals, on the "Batman Forever" soundtrack in 1995.
* Nedelle.
* George Clinton sings a line from "The Hunter Gets Captured by the Game" on his single "Loopzilla."