"Sally Go 'Round the Roses" | ||||
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Single by The Jaynetts | ||||
from the album Sally Go 'Round the Roses | ||||
B-side | "Instrumental" | |||
Released | 1963 | |||
Format | 7" single | |||
Recorded | 1963 at Broadway Recording Studios (Manhattan) | |||
Genre | R&B, pop | |||
Length | 3:04 | |||
Label | Tuff | |||
Songwriter(s) | Lona Stevens, Zell Sanders | |||
Producer(s) | Abner Spector (1917–2010) | |||
The Jaynetts singles chronology | ||||
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"Sally Go 'Round the Roses" | ||||
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Single by Donna Gains | ||||
B-side | "So Said The Man" | |||
Released | 1971 | |||
Format | 7" single | |||
Genre | Soul | |||
Length | 4:17 | |||
Label | MCA | |||
Songwriter(s) | Lona Stevens, Zell Sanders | |||
Producer(s) | Vince Melouney | |||
Donna Gains singles chronology | ||||
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"Sally Go 'Round the Roses" is the name of a 1963 hit by The Jaynetts, a Bronx-based one-hit wonder girl group, released by J&S Records on the Tuff label.
The producer of "Sally Go 'Round the Roses," Abner Spector, was an A&R man for the Chicago-based Chess Records. Spector was responsible for the Corsairs' 1962 number 12 hit "Smoky Places," which had been released on Tuff, a subsidiary of J&S Records. In the summer of 1963, Spector asked J&S owner, Zelma "Zell" Sanders, to assemble a vocal ensemble to record a girl group style record to which end Sanders wrote the song "Sally..." with Spector's wife Lona Stevens, drawing inspiration from the nursery rhyme "Ring Around the Rosie." The songwriting copyright for "Sally..." is now in the name of Abner Spector who died in 2010; Zell Sanders died in 1976.
The arrangement for "Sally Go 'Round the Roses" was provided by Artie Butler, who recalls Spector "asked me to listen to [the] song...[I] decided that in its present form it did not [have potential], but I heard something in my head. He said, 'Go into a small demo studio and do what you hear,' and he would pay for it." Butler states that he prepped the backing track for "Sally..." at Broadway Recording Studios in the Ed Sullivan Theater and claims that he himself played all the instruments on the track except for the guitar parts which were by Al Gorgoni and Carl Lynch, although it is widely reported that Buddy Miles is the drummer on "Sally...". Butler states the entire recording of "Sally..." was done "on an old Ampex tape machine at 7 1⁄2 IPS mono....Each time when I added another element" - including the final element: the vocalists - "I added a different type of reverb. Each generation [ie. development] seemed to add to the distinct sound of the record."