Vintage Rock Presents - The Beatles - UK (2021-02 & 2021-03)

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FEBRUARY 1961

SHOP AROUND IS

MOTOWN’S FIRST

MILLION SELLER

Written by The Miracles’ lead singer Smokey Robinson and Motown

Records founder Berry Gordy, Shop Around was the legendary Detroit

record label’s fi rst 7" to rack up one million sales. First released nationally

in the US in October 1960, it made No.2 on the Billboard Hot 100 and spent

eight weeks at the summit of the Billboard R&B Chart. The song depicts a

mother handing out advice to her son: “Don’t be sold on the very fi rst

one/ Pretty girls come a dime a dozen, try to fi nd one who’s gonna give

you true lovin’”. Among a number of fi rsts, the single was Motown’s debut

7" to be released in the UK, on Decca Records’ London label. It also

inspired an answer record, Don’t Let Him Shop Around, by Debbie Dean.

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