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| Playboy | ||||
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| Released | July 1962 | |||
| Recorded | Hitsville USA; 1962 | |||
| Genre | Pop, R&B | |||
| Label | Tamla (Motown) | |||
| Producer | George Gordy, William "Mickey" Stevenson, Marvin Gaye, Brian Holland, Lamont Dozier, Robert Bateman | |||
| The Marvelettes chronology | ||||
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| Singles from Playboy | ||||
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| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |   [1] |
| The Encyclopedia of Popular Music | [2] |
| The Rolling Stone Album Guide | [3] |
Playboy is the third album by the Motown girl group The Marvelettes, released in 1962.[2] It capitalized on their hit singles "Playboy" and "Beechwood 4-5789". It also includes the single "Someday, Someway" and "Forever", a heartfelt standard that would be released the following year as the B-side of the single "Locking Up My Heart" and join the A-side on the charts. Other compositions include "Goddess of Love", "Cry Over You", and "Mix It Up". George Gordy, William "Mickey" Stevenson and Marvin Gaye, who had produced "Beechwood 4-5789" all did some work on the Playboy LP as well.
The album would be the last to feature the backing vocals of original Marvelette, Juanita Cowart on every track, as she would opt out of the group in early 1963.
- ^ "Playboy - The Marvelettes | Songs, Reviews, Credits | AllMusic" – via www.allmusic.com.
- ^ a b Larkin, Colin (2006). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music. Vol. 5. MUZE. p. 545.
- ^ The Rolling Stone Album Guide. Random House. 1992. p. 453.