I've Been Good To You

Infobox Single
Name = I've Been Good To You
Artist = The Miracles
from Album = I'll Try Something New


A-side = "What's So Good About Goodbye"
Released = December 14 1961
Recorded = Hitsville USA (Studio A): October 14 1961
Format = 7" single
Genre = Soul/pop
Length = 3:00
Label = Tamla
T 54053
Writer = Smokey Robinson
Producer = Berry Gordy, Jr.
Last single = "Everybody's Gotta Pay Some Dues"
(1961)
This single = "What's So Good About Goodbye"/"I've Been Good To You"
(1961)
Next single = "I'll Try Something New"
(1962)Infobox Single
Name = I've Been Good To You
Artist = The Temptations
from Album = Gettin' Ready
A-side = "You're My Everything"
Released = June 13, 1967
Format = 7" single
Recorded = Hitsville USA (Studio A); 1964
Genre = Soul
Length = 3:00
Label = Gordy
G 7063
Writer = Smokey Robinson
Producer = Smokey Robinson
Last single = "All I Need"/"Sorry is a Sorry Word"
(1967)
This single = "You're My Everything"/"I've Been Good To You"
(1967)
Next single = "(Loneliness Made Me Realize) It's You That I Need"
(1967)

I've Been Good To You was a 1961 R&B song by The Miracles on Motown Records' Tamla label. It was released as the "B" side of their Billboard Top 40 hit, "What's So Good About Goodbye", and was included on their album I'll Try Something New" the following year. This sad , melancholy ballad charted #103 on the Billboard Pop chart. Despite it's relatively modest chart placing,this song has been hugely influential, and is noted as Beatle John Lennon's favorite Miracles tune,and was the inspration behind The Beatles' song, "Sexy Sadie". Written by Miracles lead singer Smokey Robinson,the song begins with the lyric,"Look what you've done...You've made a fool out of someone"... which Lennon later paraphrased in "his" song as..."Look what you've done...You've made a fool out of everyone".The song was performed live by the group on their album,"The Miracles Recorded Live on Stage" , and has inspired cover versions by Marshall Crenshaw,Joe Meek, The Temptones, Ray, Goodman & Brown (The Moments),The Ones,and fellow Motown artists,Brenda Holloway , and The Temptations. The Temptations' version would also be released as a "B" side and would chart at #124 on the Pop charts in 1967.

Personnel- The Miracles

*Smokey Robinson- Lead vocals.
*Bobby Rogers - Background vocals.
*Pete Moore - Background vocals.
*Claudette Robinson - Background vocals.
*Ronnie White - Background vocals.
*Marv Tarplin - Guitar.

Personnel- The Temptations

*Eddie Kendricks - Lead vocals.
*David Ruffin - Background vocals.
*Melvin Franklin - Lead & Background vocals.
*Paul Williams - Background vocals.
*Otis Williams - Background vocals.

Additional instruments:

The Funk Brothers .

Reference

All Music Guide.