"Playboy" is a song composed by Brian Holland, Robert Bateman, Mickey Stevenson and singer

Gladys Horton The Marvelettes were an American girl group that achieved popularity in the early to mid-1960s. They consisted of schoolmates Gladys Horton, Katherine Anderson, Georgeanna Tillman, Juanita Cowart (now Cowart Motley), and Georgia Dobbins, who wa ...

, lead vocalist of the

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singing group

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, who recorded the song and released it as a single on Motown's

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imprint in 1962. The single, led by Horton, is about a man who fools around with a lot of women and the woman who narrates the story warns him to stay away from her due to the stories she heard of him "running around with every woman in town". Horton is helped out in the song by her Marvelettes cohorts

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Georgeanna Tillman The Marvelettes were an American girl group that achieved popularity in the early to mid-1960s. They consisted of schoolmates Gladys Horton, Katherine Anderson, Georgeanna Tillman, Juanita Cowart (now Cowart Motley), and Georgia Dobbins, who ...

, Katherine Anderson & Juanita Cowart. This was released as the third single by the Marvelettes and was their second top ten

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hit reaching number seven on the charts while reaching number four on the R&B chart. The song is sampled in the Dickie Goodman novelty break-in record "Ben Crazy" (1962). A satire on the Television Doctor's show "Ben Casey".

Credits

*Lead vocal by

*Background vocals by

, Katherine Anderson and

Juanita Cowart The Marvelettes were an American girl group that achieved popularity in the early to mid-1960s. They consisted of schoolmates Gladys Horton, Katherine Anderson, Georgeanna Tillman, Juanita Cowart (now Cowart Motley), and Georgia Dobbins, who wa ...

*Instrumentation by

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*Produced by William "Mickey" Stevenson

References

1962 singles The Marvelettes songs Songs written by Brian Holland Songs written by William "Mickey" Stevenson Tamla Records singles 1961 songs Songs written by Robert Bateman (songwriter) {{1960s-R&B-song-stub