Live Wire (song)
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| "Live Wire" | ||
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| Single by Martha and the Vandellas | ||
| from the album Greatest Hits | ||
| A-side(s) | Live Wire | |
| B-side(s) | Old Love | |
| Released | 1964 | |
| Format | vinyl record (7" 45 RPM) | |
| Recorded | Hitsville USA (Studio A); 1963 | |
| Genre | Soul | |
| Length | 2:35 | |
| Label | Gordy | |
| Producer(s) | Brian Holland, Lamont Dozier, Eddie Holland, Jr. | |
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| Martha and the Vandellas singles chronology | ||
| "Quicsand(1963) | Quicksand | In My Lonely Room" (1964) |
"Live Wire" is a 1964 soul single released by Motown girl group Martha and the Vandellas. The song was produced by Holland-Dozier-Holland under the same format of their earlier hit singles "(Love is Like a) Heat Wave" and "Quicksand". The song explained why the narrator can't come up with words to tell her lover that she was through with him because when she looks at him, she feels that he is "like a bolt of lightning" and that he's a "live wire". Though the song failed to hit the Top 40 of the pop charts (peaking at #42), it's still one of the group's most popular early singles to this day. The song reached #11 on Cashbox's R&B singles chart in which during this time the Billboard R&B chart had been suspended and would be until January of 1965.
[edit] Credits
- Lead vocals by Martha Reeves
- Background vocals by Rosalind Ashford and Betty Kelley
- Produced by Brian Holland and Lamont Dozier
- Written by Brian Holland, Lamont Dozier and Edward Holland, Jr.
- Instrumentation by The Funk Brothers
