The One Who Really Loves You

About The One Who Really Loves You

"The One Who Really Loves You" is a single recorded by Mary Wells on the Motown label in 1962. It was written and composed by Smokey Robinson of The Miracles and peaked at number eight on the Billboard Hot 100 chart and number two on the Billboard R&B chart. The song, written by Smokey Robinson, talks about a woman who's telling her boyfriend not to fall for other girls, because they don't want him, and their love isn't true, but hers is, so she's telling him that he "better wake up" before they "break up". The single was the first of a trio of Top Ten hits with Robinson in the year (followed by "You Beat Me to the Punch" and "Two Lovers"). It featured vibraphone production and brought out a softer sound in Wells' voice that hadn't been shown in her earlier releases. The single was the highest charting single of her career at the time. Jessica Sanchez sampled the song for her song "Still in Love". more »

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1962

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Some other girls are fillin' your head with jive
So now you're acting like you don't know that I'm alive
Love you better wake up, yeah, before we break up
And you lose me, little me
The one who really loves you

Susie only wants you until the day (only wants you until the day)
That she'll again have her true love who's far, far away (her true love far away)
So love you better wake up, yeah, before we break up
And you lose me, little me
The one who really loves you (I really love you, yeah)

Ginnie only wants you 'cause she thinks she has to have everyone
Minnie only wants you 'cause she thinks that hurting me would be fun
Oh, oh, oh, silly Lilly, you know she doesn't really want you with a love that's true
In fact there's no other girl in this whole wide world who can love you like I do

They get tired of you and they're gonna put you down (put you down, put you down)
Then they ain't gonna want you hangin' around (hangin' around, hangin' around)
So love you better wake up, yeah, before we break up
And you lose me, little me
The one who really loves you (I really love you, yeah)

I do, really, really love you (I really love you)
Uh-oh, uh-oh, uh-oh, uh-oh, uh-oh, uh-oh

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Mary Wells

Mary Esther Wells (May 13, 1943 – July 26, 1992) was an American singer who helped to define the emerging sound of Motown in the early 1960s. Along with The Miracles, The Temptations, The Supremes, and the Four Tops, Wells was said to have been part of the charge in black music onto radio stations and record shelves of mainstream America, "bridging the color lines in music at the time." more »

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