The Marvelettes a.k.a. The Pink Album is a 1967 album by American vocal group The Marvelettes

The Marvelettes

The Marvelettes were an American singing girl group on the Tamla label. Motown's first successful female vocal group, the Marvelettes are most notable for recording the company's first #1 Pop hit, "Please Mr...

, also their seventh LP.

Overview

Recording began in 1966. Smokey Robinson

Smokey Robinson

William "Smokey" Robinson, Jr. is an American R&B singer-songwriter, record producer, and former record executive. Robinson is one of the primary figures associated with Motown, second only to the company's founder, Berry Gordy...

 handled much of the production. There is also production from James Dean and William Weatherspoon who would provide material for the The Marvelette's next album. Producers felt that the group needed to offer a sound more mature and developed that contrasted their previous recordings. This album contains only two singles: "The Hunter Gets Captured by the Game

The Hunter Gets Captured by the Game

"The Hunter Gets Captured by the Game" is a 1966 song recorded by The Marvelettes for the Motown label, from their self-titled album released that year....

" (#13 US, # 2 R&B) which was written and produced by Robinson, and its follow-up, a remake of "When You're Young and in Love

When You're Young and in Love

"When You're Young and in Love" is a song composed by Van McCoy. The first recording of the song was by Ruby & the Romantics; like all the group's singles on Kapp Records the track was produced by label a&r head Allen Stanton...

" (#23 US, #9 R&B, #13 UK) which was the group's only single to reach UK charts. The Marvelettes stopped at #129 US and was more successful on the R&B chart, at #13.

Side 1

1. "Barefootin" (Robert Parker) (Robert Parker
   Robert Parker
   Robert Parker may refer to:*Robert Parker , English Puritan scholar and divine*Sir Robert Parker, 1st Baronet , English politician; Member of Parliament for Hastings, 1679–1685...
   
    cover)
2. "Message to Michael
   Message to Michael
   "Message to Michael" is a 1966 Top Ten hit by Dionne Warwick, written by Burt Bacharach and Hal David. The song's lyrics are addressed to a bluebird by a woman in Kentucky whose sweetheart is vainly pursuing musical stardom in New Orleans; the woman asks the bluebird to take a message to Michael,...
   
   " (Burt Bacharach, Hal David) (Dionne Warwick
   Dionne Warwick
   Dionne Warwick is an American singer, actress and TV show host, who became a United Nations Global Ambassador for the Food and Agriculture Organization, and a United States Ambassador of Health....
   
    cover)
3. "The Hunter Gets Captured by the Game
   The Hunter Gets Captured by the Game
   "The Hunter Gets Captured by the Game" is a 1966 song recorded by The Marvelettes for the Motown label, from their self-titled album released that year....
   
   " (William Robinson)
4. "When You're Young and in Love
   When You're Young and in Love
   "When You're Young and in Love" is a song composed by Van McCoy. The first recording of the song was by Ruby & the Romantics; like all the group's singles on Kapp Records the track was produced by label a&r head Allen Stanton...
   
   " (Van McCoy) (Ruby & The Romantics
   Ruby & the Romantics
   Ruby & the Romantics was an American R&B group in the 1960s. They had several pop and R&B hit records, but are sometimes considered as a one-hit wonder for topping the US Billboard Hot 100 chart in 1963 with their first recording, "Our Day Will Come", written by Mort Garson and Bob Hilliard...
   
    cover)
5. "I Know Better" (R. Dean Taylor, Norman Whitfield)
6. "I Can't Turn Around" (Frank Wilson)

Side 2

1. "He Was Really Sayin' Somethin'
   He Was Really Sayin' Somethin'
   "He Was Really Sayin' Somethin is a soul song written by Motown Records songwriters Norman Whitfield, William "Mickey" Stevenson, and Edward Holland, Jr. in 1964...
   
   " (Eddie Holland, William Stevenson, Norman Whitfield) (The Velvelettes
   The Velvelettes
   The Velvelettes was an American singing girl group, signed to Motown in the 1960s.-Early years and establishment:The group was founded in 1961 by Bertha Barbee McNeal and Mildred Gill Arbor, students at Western Michigan University. Mildred recruited her younger sister Carolyn , who was in 9th...
   
    cover)
2. "The Day You Take One (You Have to Take the Other)" (William Robinson)
3. "When I Need You" (Morris Broadnax, Clarence Paul)
4. "Keep Off, No Trespassing" (Johnny Bristol, Robert Gordy)
5. "This Night Was Made for Love" (Thomas Jones, Robert Staunton)
6. "I Need Someone" (James Dean, William Weatherspoon)

Personnel

• Gladys Horton
  Gladys Horton
  Gladys Catherine Horton was an American R&B and pop singer, famous for being the founder and lead singer of the popular Motown all-female vocal group The Marvelettes.-Biography:...
  
  - Lead and background vocals.
• Wanda Young
  Wanda Young
  Wanda Young is an American singer, famous for being the member and later lead singer of the popular Motown all-female singing group The Marvelettes.-Biography:Wanda was born in 1943 and raised in the western Detroit suburb of Inkster, Michigan...
  
  - Lead and background vocals.
• Katherine Anderson
  Katherine Anderson
  Katherine Anderson Schaffner is an American singer, famed for her tenure in the Motown all-female singing group The Marvelettes...
  
  - background vocals.
• The Andantes
  The Andantes
  The Andantes were a prolific female sessions group for the Motown record label during the 1960s. Composed of Jackie Hicks, Marlene Barrow, and Louvain Demps, the group sang background vocals on numerous Motown recordings, including songs by Martha Reeves & the Vandellas, The Temptations, Stevie...
  
  - background vocals
• Smokey Robinson
  Smokey Robinson
  William "Smokey" Robinson, Jr. is an American R&B singer-songwriter, record producer, and former record executive. Robinson is one of the primary figures associated with Motown, second only to the company's founder, Berry Gordy...
  
  - Producer
• Norman Whitfield
  Norman Whitfield
  Norman Jesse Whitfield was an American songwriter and producer, best known for his work with Berry Gordy's Motown label during the 1960s...
  
  - Producer
• Brian Holland
  Brian Holland
  Brian Holland is an American songwriter and record producer, best known as a member of Holland–Dozier–Holland. That songwriting and production team that was responsible for much of the Motown sound and numerous hit records by artists such as Martha and the Vandellas, The Supremes, The Four Tops,...
  
  - Producer
• Lamont Dozier
  Lamont Dozier
  Lamont Herbert Dozier is an American songwriter and record producer, born in Detroit, Michigan. Dozier has either co-written or produced several US Billboard #1 hits.-Career:...
  
  - Producer
• James Dean- Producer
• William Weatherspoon- Producer
• The Funk Brothers
  The Funk Brothers
  The Funk Brothers was the nickname of Detroit, Michigan, session musicians who performed the backing to most Motown Records recordings from 1959 until the company moved to Los Angeles in 1972...
  
  - Instrumentation

Singles history

• "The Hunter Gets Captured by the Game
  The Hunter Gets Captured by the Game
  "The Hunter Gets Captured by the Game" is a 1966 song recorded by The Marvelettes for the Motown label, from their self-titled album released that year....
  
  " (#13 US) (#2 R&B)
• "When You're Young and in Love
  When You're Young and in Love
  "When You're Young and in Love" is a song composed by Van McCoy. The first recording of the song was by Ruby & the Romantics; like all the group's singles on Kapp Records the track was produced by label a&r head Allen Stanton...
  
  " (#23 US) (#9 R&B) (#13 UK)