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| "Love Bug Leave My Heart Alone" | ||||
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| Single byMartha and the Vandellas | ||||
| from the albumRiding High | ||||
| B-side | "One Way Out" | |||
| Released | August 3, 1967 | |||
| Recorded | Hitsville USA; 1967 | |||
| Genre | ||||
| Label | Gordy | |||
| Songwriters | Richard Morris Sylvia Moy | |||
| Producer | Richard Morris | |||
| Martha and the Vandellas singles chronology | ||||
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"Love Bug Leave My Heart Alone" is a song byMotown girl groupMartha and the Vandellas, released as a single in 1967. The song's production was a departure from the Vandellas' repertoire as their label, Motown, was having a harder time staying with the times in the music industry and having a much harder time finding a hit for its acts after several departures including Vandellas collaboratorsWilliam "Mickey" Stevenson andHolland-Dozier-Holland, who produced the B-side to this single, "One Way Out", one of the trio's final recordings with the Vandellas. Produced byRichard Morris, the song displayed of the narrator wanting "the love bug" (i.e., her former lover) to leave her alone so she won't "fall in love". The narrator, lead singerMartha Reeves, was left heart-broken the last time she allowed the man to come back to her but after suffering heartbreak, she expresses her disgust at the man's attempts, with her fellow membersRosalind Ashford andBetty Kelly chanting "get outta there, love bug, leave my heart alone". The song (with its unusual-for-Motown fuzz guitar) was their second consecutivetop 40 single of 1967 peaking at number twenty-five on theBillboard Pop singles chart and number fourteen on theBillboard HotR&B singles chart.[1] The record was the first track ever played onBBC Radio 1 by DJJohn Peel.[citation needed]
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