Take Me in Your Arms (Rock Me a Little While)

TAKE ME IN YOUR ARMS (ROCK ME A LITTLE WHILE)
 
 
“Take Me in Your Arms (Rock Me a Little While)”  is a song written by the premier Motown songwriting/production team of the 1960s Holland–Dozier–Holland.  Holland-Dozier-Holland had Kim Weston record the song in 1965, and her version was released that September.  It peaked at number 4 on the R&B chart in Billboard and at number 50 on the Hot 100.  (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