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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.
"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 ...
Joe South (born Joseph Alfred Souter; February 28, 1940 – September 5, 2012) was an American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and record producer.Best known for his songwriting, South won the Grammy Award for Song of the Year in 1970 for "Games People Play" and was again nominated for the award in 1972 for "Rose Garden".
"Games People Play" (The Alan Parsons Project song), 1980 "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" featured guest vocalist Evette L. Benton [13] (though producer Bell disputed this in a UK-based interview, claiming Evette's line was actually group member Henry Fambrough – his voice sped up), [14] and led to the nickname "Mister 12:45" for bass singer Jackson, after his signature vocal line on the song. Now at the height ...
This is the second domestic Spinners compilation (after a 1977 British compilation, Smash Hits) and includes recordings from a series of successful albums produced by Thom Bell for Atlantic Records in the 1970s. [1] A previous compilation by the same name from 1973 collects the group's first singles and tracks from their two Motown albums. [2]
The Best of the Spinners: 124 37 — Motown: 1977 Smash Hits — — 37 Atlantic: 1978 The Best of the Spinners: 115 56 — 1991 A One of a Kind Love Affair: The Anthology — — — 1993 The Very Best of the Spinners — — — Rhino: 1997 The Very Best of the Spinners, Vol. 2 — — — 2000 Their Early Years — — — Tri-Phi 2001 ...
Games People Play (Joe South song) H. How Can I Unlove You; Hush (Billy Joe Royal song) I. I Beg Your Pardon; I Knew You When (Billy Joe Royal song) I've Got to Be ...