"Little Woman" is a 1969 song recorded by

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and composed by

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Background

Session musicians on this recording included James Burton and Alton Hendrickson on guitar, Don Randi on piano, Jerry Scheff on bass, Richard Hyde on trombone, Joe Burnett and Ollie Mitchell on trumpet, Theodore Nash and Jim Horn on sax, William Kurasch, Leonard Malarsky, Paul Shure, Gloria Strassner, Assa Drori and Samuel Cytron on violins, David Filerman on cello, Emil Richards on percussion, Jim Gordon on drums. Initial copies were released with Sherman singing

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's song "One Too Many Mornings" as B-side. Some later copies substituted "Love", a song written by Sherman himself.

Chart performance

Sherman's first single release on

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, it reached No. 3 on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100 and achieved

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certification. On the rival Cashbox chart, it reached No. 1 for one week. It also sold well in Canada, where it reached No. 2 in the

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charts. In New Zealand, "Little Woman" reached No. 5. The song earned Sherman a gold record, his first of four in the U.S., Accessed July 24, 2016

References

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Background

Chart performance

See also

References