Girl Don't Come
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| “I'd Be Far Better Off Without You” | |||||
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| Single by Sandie Shaw | |||||
| B-side | "Girl Don't Come" (NB sides were switched shortly after the record's release) | ||||
| Released | 1964 | ||||
| Genre | Pop | ||||
| Label | Pye | ||||
| Writer(s) | Chris Andrews | ||||
| Sandie Shaw singles chronology | |||||
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- For b-side by Garbage song titled "Girl Don't Come", see Only Happy When It Rains
"Girl Don't Come" is a song by 1960s British girl singer Sandie Shaw written by Chris Andrews, who wrote the vast majority of Shaw's 1960s hits. Originally used as the B-side to her third single "I'd Be Far Better Off Without You" (also written by Andrews) the song tells the story of a young man who has been stood up on a date.
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The original arrangement was arranged more like a ballad, but the tempo was sped up later, to Shaw's dislike.[citation needed] At first she refused to record the song in its new arrangement but was later persuaded by one of her colleagues to do it. There was then disagreement between Shaw and her manager Evelyn Taylor over whether or not it should be used as the A-side for her third single, as Shaw desperately wanted the ballad "I'd Be Far Better Off Without You." The single was issued with Shaw's preference, but she then agreed to perform both songs on a late night chat show and let the public decide which should be the A-side, confident that her choice would remain. However she was proved wrong and "Girl Don't Come" became the A-side. It reached Number Three on the UK singles chart in early 1965 and is one of Shaw's best-known songs. In later years, Shaw admitted that the right decision had been made to switch the song to the A-side, as it has "stood the test of time" well.
