Little Woman Explained

Little Woman
Cover:Bobby_Sherman_"Little_Woman"_45rpm_picture_sleeve.jpg
Type:single
Artist:Bobby Sherman
B-Side:"One Too Many Mornings"
Released:May 1969
Genre:Pop
Length:2:22
Label:Metromedia MMS-221
Producer:Jackie Mills
Prev Title:Think Of Rain
Prev Year:1967
Next Title:La La La (If I Had You)
Next Year:1969

"Little Woman" is a 1969 song recorded by Bobby Sherman and composed by Danny Janssen.

Background

Session musicians on this recording included James Burton and Alton Hendrickson on guitar, Don Randi on piano, Jerry Scheff on bass, Richard Hyde on trombone, Joe Burnett and Ollie Mitchell on trumpet, Theodore Nash and Jim Horn on sax, William Kurasch, Leonard Malarsky, Paul Shure, Gloria Strassner, Assa Drori and Samuel Cytron on violins, David Filerman on cello, Emil Richards on percussion, Jim Gordon on drums. Initial copies were released with Sherman singing Bob Dylan's song "One Too Many Mornings" as B-side. Some later copies substituted "Love", a song written by Sherman himself.[1]

Chart performance

Sherman's first single release on Metromedia Records, it reached No. 3 on the Billboard Hot 100 and achieved gold certification.[2] On the rival Cashbox chart, it reached No. 1 for one week. It also sold well in Canada, where it reached No. 2 in the RPM charts. In New Zealand, "Little Woman" reached No. 5. The song earned Sherman a gold record, his first of four in the U.S.[3]

See also

Notes and References

  1. http://www.45cat.com/record/mma121 45cat.com entry for this record
  2. Web site: The Billboard Hot 100: Little Woman . Billboard Magazine . 2009-05-22 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20140209103455/http://www.billboard.com/charts/1969-11-08/hot-100 . February 9, 2014 .
  3. Book: Leszczak, Bo . Bob Leszczak

    . From Small Screen to Vinyl: A Guide to Television Stars Who Made Records, 1950-2000. Bob Leszczak . 2015 . Rowman & Littlefield . 288. |Accessed July 24, 2016