Honey Chile

Honey Chile

Infobox Single
Name = Honey Chile
Artist = Martha Reeves & the Vandellas
from Album = Ridin' High


Released = October 14, 1967
Format = 7" single
Recorded = Hitsville USA (Studio A), 1967
Genre = R&B/soul
Length = 2:51
Label = Gordy
G 7067
Writer = Sylvia Moy
Richard Morris
Producer = Richard Morris
Last single = "Love Bug Leave My Heart Alone"
1967
This single = "Honey Chile"
1967
Next single = "I Promise to Wait My Love"
1968

"Honey Chile" is a 1967 single by Motown girl group Martha and the Vandellas on the Gordy label. Produced by Richard Morris and written by Morris and Sylvia Moy, the tune described how the narrator (Martha Reeves) wanting to get rid of her boyfriend who's been courting and dating other girls behind her back though she's too weak to let him go stating "I'll walk a country mile to stay with you". Filled with Southern connotations (inspired by Reeves' birth in rural Alabama), the tune rose to number eleven on the "Billboard" pop singles chart and number five on the "Billboard" R&B singles chart. It's notable for several reasons: it's the first track to feature new member, Martha's younger sister Sandra "Lois" Reeves replacing just-fired Betty Kelley, it was the group's twelfth top 40 pop single, and it was also the last top 40 hit the group would score throughout the rest of their Motown tenure though they would score several top 40 R&B singles before leaving the label in 1973. It was also the first single to be credited as Martha Reeves and the Vandellas after the label requested that some of the lead singers of several groups put their name in front of the group's to earn billing for both lead singer and group.

Credits

*Lead vocals by Martha Reeves
*Background vocals by Rosalind Ashford and Sandra "Lois" Reeves
*Instrumentation by The Funk Brothers


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