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"Games People Play" is a song written, composed, and performed by American singer-songwriter Joe South, released in August 1968. [1] It entered the Billboard Hot 100 in January 1969 and won the 1970 Grammy Awards for both Best Contemporary Song and the Song of the Year .
The Pearlettes, a girl group, released a cover of the song (as "Duchess of Earl") in 1962, reaching No. 96 on the Billboard chart. In early 1962, an answer song to Chandler's hit, by Bobbie Smith and the Dream Girls, was also titled "Duchess of Earl". Despite having the same title, the two songs have different music and lyrics. [8]
"Games People Play" is a 1980 song by the Alan Parsons Project. It peaked at No. 16 on 14 March 1981 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart as well as No. 18 on Cash Box . [ 2 ] [ 3 ] It appears on the album The Turn of a Friendly Card and was sung by Lenny Zakatek .
In 1988, "Duke of Earl" was included on the soundtrack of Hairspray; "Groovy Situation" appeared on Anchorman: Music from the Motion Picture (2004). [9] In 2002, "Duke of Earl" was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame. [10] "Duke of Earl" was selected by the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as one of its "500 Songs That Shaped Rock and Roll". [11]
Bernice Williams is an American songwriter and music business manager, who wrote the 1960s song "Duke of Earl" [1] [2] along with Gene Chandler and Earl Edwards. [3] The song was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 2002 and is in The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as one of the 500 songs that shaped rock and roll. [4] In the 1960s, she wrote ...
"Games People Play", also known as " ' They Just Can't Stop It' The (Games People Play)", is a song recorded by American R&B vocal group The Spinners. Released in 1975 from their Pick of the Litter album, featuring lead vocals by Bobby Smith , it was a crossover success, spending a week at number one on the US Hot Soul Singles chart and peaking ...
"Games People Play" (Joe South song), 1968; covered by Inner Circle, 1994 "Games People Play" (The Spinners song), also known as "They Just Can't Stop It (The Games People Play)", 1975; Games People Play, a 1993 album by Pink Cream 69; The Games People Play, a 2012 album by Paul Lamb; Games People Play, an album by The PeeChees
A ^ "Hand on the Pump" did not enter the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart, but peaked at number 6 on the Bubbling Under R&B/Hip-Hop Singles chart, which acts as a 25-song extension to the R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart. [4] "Hand on the Pump" samples Gene Chandler's "Duke of Earl" on the 1962 album, Vee Jay.