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| Name = Kiss and Say Goodbye |
| Name = Kiss and Say Goodbye |
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| Cover = Kissandsaygoodbye45.jpg |
| Cover = Kissandsaygoodbye45.jpg |
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| Artist = [[The Manhattans]] |
| Artist = [[The Manhattans]] |
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| from Album = [[The Manhattans (album)|The Manhattans]] |
| from Album = [[The Manhattans (album)|The Manhattans]] |
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| B-side = "Wonderful World Of Love" <ref name="45cat">{{citar web |url=http://www.45cat.com/record/310310 |data= |accessdate=March 14, 2018 |titulo=The Manhattans - Kiss And Say Goodbye / Wonderful World Of Love 7" (1976) |autor=45cat}}</ref> |
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| B-side = "Wonderful World of Love" |
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| Released = March 1976 <ref name="45cat"/> |
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| Recorded = 1975–1976 <ref name="Discogs1">{{citar web |url=https://www.discogs.com/The-Manhattans-The-Manhattans/release/573659 |data= |accessdate=March 14, 2018 |titulo=The Manhattans – The Manhattans (1976) |autor=Discogs}}</ref> |
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*[[Soul music|Soul]] |
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| Length = 4:27 (full version)<br> |
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3:29 (single edit) |
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| Length = 4:28 (Album full version) <ref name="Discogs1"/><br />3:29 (Single edited version) <ref name="45cat"/> |
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| Label = [[Columbia Records|Columbia]] |
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| Label = [[Columbia Records]] <ref name="45cat"/> |
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| Writer = Winfred Lovett <ref name="45cat"/> |
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| Producer = [[Bobby Martin (producer)|Bobby Martin]] |
| Producer = [[Bobby Martin (producer)|Bobby Martin]]<br />[[The Manhattans]] <ref name="45cat"/> |
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| Last single = "[[Hurt (Roy Hamilton song)|Hurt]]"<br />(1975) |
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| This single = '''"Kiss and Say Goodbye"'''<br />'''(1976)''' |
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| Next single = "I Kinda Miss You"<br />(1976) |
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| Album = [[The Manhattans (album)|The Manhattans]] |
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| Type = single |
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| prev_track = "La La La Wish Upon a Star" |
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| this_track = '''"Kiss and Say Goodbye"''' |
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| track_no = '''10''' |
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'''"Kiss and Say Goodbye"''' is a 1976 song by popular American [[R&B]] [[vocal group]] [[The Manhattans]], written by group member Winfred Lovett. It was recorded for the album ''[[The Manhattans (album)|The Manhattans]]'', released in [[1976]] by [[Columbia Records]]. It was one of the biggest hits of the year. |
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==Background and recording== |
==Background and recording== |
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[[Category:Billy Joe Royal songs]] |
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Revision as of 16:05, 14 March 2018
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"Kiss and Say Goodbye" is a 1976 song by popular American R&B vocal group The Manhattans, written by group member Winfred Lovett. It was recorded for the album The Manhattans, released in 1976 by Columbia Records. It was one of the biggest hits of the year.
Background and recording
The song was written by Manhattans bass singer Winfred "Blue" Lovett, who also provided the spoken introduction heard in the full-length version of the original recording. The lyrics and melody came to him late one night. As he later recalled, "Everything was there. I got up about three o'clock in the morning and jotted down the things I wanted to say. I just put the words together on my tape recorder and little piano. I've always thought that when you write slow songs, they have to have meaning. In this case, it's the love triangle situation we've all been through. I figured anyone who's been in love could relate to it. And it seemed to touch home for a lot of folks."[3]
Lovett originally considered the song a country tune more appropriate to be sung by Glen Campbell or Charley Pride. He decided to do it with his group. Manhattans lead singer Gerald Alston is featured on the originally released recording following Lovett's spoken introduction.
The original demo of the song was recorded with The Manhattans backing band, "Little Harlem." After hearing a tape of the recording, producer/arranger Bobby Martin decided to re-record the song with MFSB at Sigma Sound Studios in Philadelphia. Recorded in early 1975, Columbia Records officials withheld releasing the song until 14 months later. Lovett had his concerns over when the record came out as well as the record itself. "I was critical, a perfectionist in the studio, and there are still parts of it that make my skin crawl. For example, in one place, the background vocals go off pitch. Somehow, though, that didn't seem to bother anyone else."[3]
Chart performance
Released as a single, the song became a worldwide hit for the group, spending two weeks at number one on the U.S. Pop and U.S. R&B charts.[4] and reaching number four on the UK Singles Chart in the middle of 1976. In the U.S., the song was the 400th #1 hit on the Billboard Hot 100 pop singles chart. It also became just the second single to earn platinum certification status, after the RIAA established the designation in 1976. (Johnnie Taylor's "Disco Lady" had been the first a few months earlier.) Billboard ranked it as the No. 6 song for 1976.
Besides being the first and only No. 1 pop hit for the Manhattans, "Kiss and Say Goodbye" marked more than 11 years since the group first made the Billboard Hot 100 in 1965 with "I Wanna Be (Your Everything)."
Personnel
- Lead Vocal - Gerald Alston
- Spoken voice on intro - Winifred Lovett
- Music played (uncredited) by MFSB
- Background Vocals (uncredited) - The Manhattans, Barbara Ingram, Evette Benton, Carla Benson
References
- ^ a b c d e f g 45cat. "The Manhattans - Kiss And Say Goodbye / Wonderful World Of Love 7" (1976)". Retrieved March 14, 2018.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) - ^ a b Discogs. "The Manhattans – The Manhattans (1976)". Retrieved March 14, 2018.
- ^ a b ""Kiss and Say Goodbye" - The Manhattans". Superseventies.com. 1976-07-24. Retrieved 2016-10-11.
- ^ Whitburn, Joel (2004). Top R&B/Hip-Hop Singles: 1942-2004. Record Research. p. 375.