Use Your Head
1964 single by Mary Wells
"Use Your Head" | ||||
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Single by Mary Wells | ||||
from the album Mary Wells | ||||
B-side | "Everlovin' Boy" | |||
Released | 1964 | |||
Recorded | 1964 | |||
Genre | Soul/pop | |||
Length | 2:08 | |||
Label | 20th Century Fox 555 | |||
Songwriter(s) | Barrett Strong Chuck Barksdale Wade Flemons | |||
Producer(s) | Andre Williams Riley Hampton | |||
Mary Wells singles chronology | ||||
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"Use Your Head" is a soulful pop song written by Barrett Strong, Wade Flemons and The Dells' Chuck Barksdale and released as a single by former Motown singer Mary Wells on the 20th Century Fox label.[1]
Overview
Song information
The single showcases the narrator telling her lover to think before he made some costly decisions based on advice given to him by one of his best friends warning her lover to "use his head" before he ends up "losing the best love he ever had".
Release and reaction
The song was one of the few successful post-Motown singles Wells recorded. The song registered at number 34 on the Billboard Hot 100 and number 13 on the R&B singles chart.[2][3]
Personnel
- Lead vocal by Mary Wells
- Background vocals by assorted singers
- Instrumentation by assorted musicians
References
- ^ Use Your Head at Discogs
- ^ Whitburn, Joel (2004). The Billboard Book of Top 40 Hits, 8th Edition (Billboard Publications).
- ^ Allmusic review
- v
- t
- e
- Bye Bye Baby I Don't Want to Take a Chance (1961)
- The One Who Really Loves You (1962)
- Two Lovers and Other Great Hits (1963)
- Mary Wells Sings My Guy (1964)
- Mary Wells (1965)
- The Two Sides of Mary Wells (1966)
- Servin' Up Some Soul (1968)
- In and Out of Love (1981)
- Keeping My Mind on Love (1990)
- Recorded Live On Stage (1963)
- Together (1964)
- Love Songs to the Beatles (1965)
- Greatest Hits (1966)
- Vintage Stock (1966)
- Easy Touch (1982)
- The Old, The New & The Best of Mary Wells (1983)
(US Top 40)
- "I Don't Want to Take a Chance"
- "The One Who Really Loves You"
- "You Beat Me to the Punch"
- "Two Lovers"
- "Laughing Boy"
- "Your Old Standby"
- "What's Easy for Two Is Hard for One"/
- "You Lost the Sweetest Boy"
- "My Guy"
- "Once Upon a Time"
- "What's the Matter with You Baby"
- "Use Your Head"
- Discography
- Albums
- Songs
- Smokey Robinson
- Marvin Gaye
- Cecil Womack
- Meech Wells