It's Growing

"It's Growing" is a single from the American Motown -band The Temptations . The song is the second single from the second album by the group, "The Temptations Sing Smokey". Although it was not as successful as the first single from the album, " My Girl ", the first No. 1 of the group hit, earned" It's Growing "or the top twenty on the pop chart, a # 3 position on the R & B list and just not the top forty in the UK .

As the title of the album the single suggests, "It's Growing" by Smokey Robinson, lead singer of another successful Motown group The Miracles . He wrote the song not only, but in cooperation with Warren "Pete" Moore, bass singer of The Miracles. The text she had written for the song, is about that of the narrator love grows and continues to grow for his beloved. He compares the growth of his love with that developments such as the growth of a story as more people tell whether the growth of the length of a snowball as it rolls down a snow-covered hill. The one who sings the text and thus lead singer is David Ruffin . The other Temptations sing background, but not only. The Andantes, a background group of Motown, singing along with the background vocals. "It's Growing" is incidentally the only song by The Temptations where The Andantes to sing along.

The instrumentation that the song can be heard, was provided by The Funk Brothers, a band that almost hear all Motown recordings until 1972 . What's special about the musical part is the intro. This is played by Earl Van Dyke, one of the pianists of The Funk Brothers. However, he plays it on a regular piano, but on a toy piano, producer Smokey Robinson because it sounded fun. However, the toy piano is only used in the intro and can not hear the rest of the number.

"It's Growing" was in November 1968 issued by another Motown group. It was Bobby Taylor & The Vancouvers who used the song as the B-side of their single " Malinda". The B-side of The Temptations version of "It's Growing," " What Love Has Joined Together, "was also a cover. The original version of the song was recorded by Mary Wells, thé female star of Motown in the early years of the record.

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 * Lead: David Ruffin
 * Background: Eddie Kendricks , Otis Williams , Melvin Franklin , Paul Williams and The Andantes
 * Instrumentation: The Funk Brothers
 * Writers: Smokey Robinson and Pete Moore
 * Production: Smokey Robinson