Ringo would do ‘Boys‘, which was a fan favorite with the crowd. In a manner of speaking. They heard a hit song on the radio called ‘Tonight’s The Night’. Otherwise, I can’t imagine what they might be talking about…, Great article about a great song. Here’s Roberta Flack, whom I often find somewhat heavy-handed, doing a great job on it. I was 14 when it came out, and Shirley Owens's voice, so powerful yet fragile, so full of yearning, perfectly matched my adolescent moods. Will You Love Me Tomorrow by the Shirelles was released in 1960 and went to the top of the US charts (No 4 in the UK) early in 1961. Can I believe the magic of your sighs? ‘I talk about boys now!’ Or it was a gay song. Just wondering, should the lyrics perhaps read “Can I believe the magic of your sighs?”?!? ... Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow 2007 Baby It's You 1962 Tonight's the Night 1961 The Best of the Shirelles 1992 Greatest Hits, Vol. It was originally recorded in 1960 by the Shirelles, who took their single to number one on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. The Shirelles recorded ‘Will You Love Me Tomorrow’, and it became the first #1 hit by a girl group since the McGuire Sisters, the first ever for a black girl group. A round black thing made out of plastic that has a song on it. McCartney: “Any one of us could hold the audience.
I’m betting it ain’t gonna make it 8000 years. That’s was hep slang for popular records. Will you still love me tomorrow? And it was great — though if you think about it, here’s us doing a song and it was really a girls’ song.
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‘Will You Love Me Tomorrow’ has had more cover versions than the number of ants on a Tennessee anthill – 555, according to one count. And it was almost the perfect pop song. The Life of a Song: Will You Love Me Tomorrow Written for The Shirelles in 1960, Carole King and Gerry Goffin’s song nailed the insecurities of a new generation of women. The Shirelles – ‘Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow’ (original), The Shirelles – ‘Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow’ (live), Carole King – ‘Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow’, Amy Winehouse – ‘Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow’.
It was the first girl group No 1, and one of the first hits by black artists to sell in millions to white kids. Would you like to hear a story about her?
So they wrote a song based on their own personal experience, which they called ‘Will You Love Me Tomorrow’. It’s been a favorite on American Idol/The Voice, but you’re going to have to check out those versions yourself, Virginia, there’s a limit to how low I’ll stoop even for the sake of completism. One of only two old Goffin/King numbers to appear on her best-selling Tapestry album (which King will perform live, in its entirety, for the first time in Hyde Park on July 3), it was stripped of its youthful uncertainty and delivered from the wearier, wiser lips of a woman who had been burnt before. I’ve even listened to a couple of her songs. You couldn’t talk about it openly on TV or in movies or in songs. Knocked up, okay? Although it had been covered by men before, Bryan Ferry gave the song its most searching gender flip in 1993, his melancholy sighs floating over lonesome splashes of synth, an echoing guitar and ghostly atmospherics. Classmate Mary Jane Greenberg (no comment Jeff, it’s not politically correct) convinced them to sign with her mother’s small record label, which was quickly sold to Decca, where the girls had a flop with their own song ‘I Met Him on a Sunday’ (later remade beautifully by Laura Nyro as the opening cut of her 1971 album “Gonna Take a Miracle”). It takes the emotions of a moment and holds it for years to come.
It’s just a great song.
Gerry worked as a chemist and Carole as a secretary, and in the evenings they kept writing songs for a guy named Don Kirshner. But indeed ‘there was music in the cafes at night, and revolution in the air’. The boomers came of age in the 70s. The two of them continued to perform the song together on their 2010 Troubadour Reunion Tour. When you hear a great song, you can think of where you were when you first heard it, the sounds, the smells. So here’s a Carole King-karaoke version for you to sing along with. The song is now a classic of the female singer-songwriter canon: you can throw a heartbroken howl at it like Amy Winehouse (whose 2004 recording for the soundtrack of Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason was vandalised by cheesy production including beach-bar bongos, and mercifully reproduced by Mark Ronson in 2011), whisper it like Norah Jones in 2009 or sob it (with menace) into your piano as Swedish indie-pop star Lykke Li did for the soundtrack of Kimberly Peirce’s 2013 Carrie remake. What does this have to do with Amy Winehouse? marvelous! But nothing conveyed the same sad, plangent raw emotion as Will You Love Me … The others were pop songs, and great ones, whereas their first hit was, in its own small way, a sort of teenage novella. Anyway, it was teenagers buying these records – What? Will you still love me tomorrow? Shirelles, Marvelettes and Carol King – great music and lots of nostalgia.
Well, after WWII, a lot of people started having babies (though it was never quite clear back then just how), and when these babies grew up (in a certain sense, anyway) some of them wanted to make their own songs. The single became the first US number one for a black female group.
I thought that song fit what the other songs were saying in Tapestry. But will you love me tomorrow? "), though several US radio stations spotted that right away, and banned it.