That's What Girls Are Made For

Album: The Original Spinners (1961)
Charted: 27
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  • That's what girls are made for

    To hug and to kiss
    (That's what girls are made for)
    To love and to miss
    (That's what girls are made for)

    You gotta hug 'em
    (Hug 'em)
    Then you kiss 'em
    (Kiss 'em)

    You gotta love 'em
    (Love 'em)
    Then you miss them
    Wo, oh oh oh oh
    (Miss them)

    That's what girls are made for
    (That's what girls are made for)

    To hold and to squeeze
    (That's what girls are made for)
    To scold and to please, yeah
    (That's what girls are made for)

    I said, you gotta hold 'em
    (Hold 'em)
    Then you squeeze 'em
    (Squeeze 'em)

    If you scold 'em
    (Scold 'em)
    You gotta please them
    And I know, I know, I know

    That's what girls are made for
    Wo oh, wo oh, yeah

    Some can be true
    Yes, and then again, they'll make you doubt 'em
    Wo oh oh, but ask me, ask me and I'm a here to tell you
    That you just can't live without 'em
    (That's what girls are made for)

    To walk and hold hands with you
    (That's what girls are made for)
    You, you gotta make all of your plans with
    (That's what girls are made for)

    To walk with
    (Walk)
    And hold hand with
    (Hands)

    To make
    (Make)
    All of your plans with
    Wo oh oh oh oh, yeah

    That's what girls are made for
    (That's what girls are made for)

    I said, you gotta hug 'em
    (Kiss 'em)
    Sometimes you gotta kiss 'em too
    (Love 'em)

    Yes you know you gotta love 'em with all your might
    (Kiss 'em)
    And I'm here to tell you, I know you gotta miss them
    (That's what girls are made for) Writer/s: GWENDOLYN GORDY FUQUA, HARVEY FUQUA
    Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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Comments: 2

  • Barry from Sauquoit, NyOn June 28, 1961, the Spinners performed "That's What Girls Are Made For" on the Dick Clark ABC-TV network weekday-afternoon program 'American Bandstand'...
    At the time the song was in it's first week on Billboard's Hot Top 100 chart, at position #82; six weeks later it would peak at #27 {for 1 week} and it spent 8 weeks on the Top 100...
    It reached #5 on Billboard's Hot R&B Singles chart...
    Between 1961 and 1995 the Detroit quintet had forty records on the Hot R&B Singles chart; seventeen made the Top 10 with six reaching #1, "I'll Be Around" for 5 weeks in 1972, "Could It Be (I'm Falling In Love)" for 1 week in 1973, "One Of A Kind (Love Affair)" for 4 weeks in 1974, "Mighty Love" for 1 week in 1974, "Games People Play" for 1 week in 1975, and "Rubberband Man" for 1 week in 1976.
  • John from Nashville, TnWhen Atlantic Records offered Thom Bell a long list of acts he could produce, the Spinners name was last on the list. Bell remembered this song and immediately wanted to produce them. The top brass from Atlantic tried to steer him from producing the Spinners because the act was about to be dropped from the label. Bell persisted, and the rest is history.
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