Baby Don’t You Do It

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BABY DON’T YOU DO IT
 
 
“Baby Don’t You Do It”  is a 1964 single by American singer Marvin Gaye.  Featured on the Holland–Dozier–Holland-written and produced track, for the first time on a Marvin Gaye record, were Motown’s top session girl group, the Andantes.  The song was originally written and intended for the Supremes, but eventually reassigned to Marvin Gaye to record.  In October 1964 Gaye’s single peaked at number 27 on both the Billboard Hot 100 and the Top 100 singles chart in Cashbox, with Cashbox affording the single a number 14 peak on its R&B chart (Billboard was not maintaining an R&B chart at this time).  (More from Wikipedia)
 
 

Mikki was born Mikki Farrow in Detroit.  She met and married a legendary saxophone player named Andrew “Mike” Terry in the mid-1960’s.  In his Allmusic entry, Jason Ankeny writes:  “The baritone saxophone of Andrew ‘Mike’ Terry remains an indelible component of the famed Motown sound. . . .  Terry’s résumé reads like a roll call of soul’s greatest hits – his Motown track record alone spans chart smashes including the Four Tops’ ‘I Can’t Help Myself’, the Isley Brothers’ ‘This Old Heart of Mine (Is Weak for You)’, Kim Weston’s ‘Take Me in Your Arms (Rock Me a Little While)’, and Marvin Gaye’s ‘Baby Don’t You Do It’; and as a freelancer, he played on monsters like Jackie Wilson’s ‘Higher and Higher’, the Fascinations’ ‘Girls Are out to Get You’, and the Capitols’ ‘Cool Jerk’.” 

 


(July 2014)

 

Last edited: March 22, 2021