The Bells (The Originals song)

The Bells (The Originals song)

Infobox Single
Name = The Bells
Artist = The Originals
from Album = Portrait of the Originals
B-side = "I'll Wait For You"
Released = January 8, 1970
Format = 7" single
Recorded = 1969, Hitsville, USA (Studio A), Detroit, Michigan
Genre = Soul
Length = 3:02
Label = Soul
S 35069
Writer = Marvin Gaye
Anna Gordy Gaye
Iris Gordy
Elgie Stover
Producer = Marvin Gaye
Chart position =
Last single = "Baby I'm For Real"
(1969)
This single = "The Bells"
(1970)
Next single = "We Can Make It, Baby"
(1970)

"The Bells" is a 1970 single recorded by The Originals for Motown Records' Soul label, produced by Marvin Gaye and co-written by Gaye, his wife Anna Gordy Gaye, Iris Gordy, and Elgie Stover.

History

The Originals version

Shortly after the release of the Originals' first hit, "Baby I'm For Real", Motown issued this similarly-produced record, which was also a Marvin Gaye production. Gaye had proved skeptics at the label wrong by producing a hit song for another act. Both "Baby I'm For Real" and "The Bells" set the precedent for Gaye's 1971 landmark album, "What's Going On".

Primarily functioning as background session singers at Motown during much of the 1960s, The Originals would continue to provide background vocals for Gaye until 1973.

"The Bells" peaked at number twelve on the Billboard Hot 100 in the United States, and reached number two on the Hot Black Singles chart. It would remain the most successful single of the group's career, the rest of which included several more Gaye-produced R&B hits and the Freddie Perren-produced dance single, "Down to Love Town".

Laura Nyro Version

On her 1971 album, Gonna Take a Miracle, singer-songwriter Laura Nyro performed a version of "The Bells" with backing vocals by Patti LaBelle and her group LaBelle.

Color Me Badd version

Two decades later, nineties R&B band Color Me Badd covered the song on their 1994 album, "Time and Chance". Much like After 7's cover of "Baby I'm for Real" two years prior, the song entered the R&B charts again, but didn't prove to be as successful as After 7's venture.

Credits

*Lead vocals by Henry Dixon and C.P. Spencer
*Background vocals by The Originals: Freddie Gorman, Walter Gaines, Henry Dixon and C.P. Spencer
*Spoken interlude by Freddie Gorman
*Instrumentation by The Funk Brothers

References


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