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"Reet Petite (The Sweetest Girl in Town)" (originally subtitled "The Finest Girl You Ever Want to Meet") is a song written by Berry Gordy, ...
Reet, Petite, and Gone was the second. Crouch made his films on low budgets with fast-paced, assembly-line methods at the former Edison studio in New York City. Scenes were rarely photographed more than twice—once for long shots and once for close-ups—and if the actors couldn't remember the scripted dialogue, they said something appropriate ...
Both the music and lyrics are inspired by rhythm and blues singer Jackie Wilson and his song "Reet Petite", which is directly quoted in the song. "Jackie Wilson Said" was covered by Dexys Midnight Runners on their album Too-Rye-Ay and reached number five on the UK Singles Chart when released in 1982. It has also been covered by several other ...
Wilson's first single was released, "Reet Petite" (from his first album He's So Fine), which became a modest R&B success (many years later, an international smash hit). "Reet Petite" was co-written by future Motown Records founder Berry Gordy Jr. (another former boxer who was a native son of Detroit), [ 16 ] with partner Roquel "Billy" Davis ...
EP. "Reet Petite" was not released in Australia until November when it appeared as a double A-sided single. [3] [4] B. ^ "Do the Blue Beat" was originally released on Viking Records by Dinah Lee in September 1964. It was released in Australia on HMV, as a double-A-sided single with "Reet Petite" in November.
British indie band the Housemartins released "Caravan of Love" in November 1986. The a cappella song was a success, reaching number one on the UK Singles Chart on 16 December 1986 (only the second a cappella recording to do so, after "Only You" by the Flying Pickets in 1983), before being denied the Christmas number one single by a posthumous re-release of Jackie Wilson's "Reet Petite". [6]
Pluto's reign. For decades, students learned the phrase "My Very Educated Mother Just Served Us Nine Pizzas" to remember the order of the planets in the solar system: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars ...
Reet Petite (The Finest Girl You Ever Want to Meet)" (Berry Gordy, Tyran Carlo, Gwen Gordy) – 2:46 "Lonely Teardrops" (B. Gordy, Carlo, G. Gordy) – 2:40