( The ) Father of Girls ( single version )

Words and Music by Ervin M. Drake

Cromwell Music Inc. ASCAP

 

Arranged and Conducted by Nick Perito

With The Ray Charles Singers

Produced by Andy Wiswell

 

Recorded in RCA Victor Studio A, 24th Street, New York City

Recording Engineer: Bob Simpson

Recording Time 3:27 ( single ) see note

 

Recorded December 29, 1967  ~ UPA1-6480 Take 4

Single release: RCA-45RPM-47-9448

note: vocal track for the album is the remake version

Single Flip Side: "Somebody Makes It So"

US Chart Position No. 92

Charted Adult Contemporary No. 10

 

Notes: ~ 'This song came out of my own personal experience,' recalls composer Ervin Drake. '

I have two daughters. Linda, who is married now, was 14, and Betsy was 8. I really felt

my problems and apprehensions as a father of girls would touch a responsive strain in

any father with daughters.' Of Perry's performance, Drake has said, 'Perry sang it in a

very quiet, very sensitive way. After all, he himself is the father of girls'.

 

( notes from "The Incomparable Como" Readers Digest UK compilation 1975 )

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Arranged and Conducted by Nick Perito

With The Ray Charles Singers

Produced by Andy Wiswell

Recorded in RCA Victor Studio A, 24th Street, New York City

Recording Engineer: Bob Simpson

Recorded December 29, 1967

 

Note: the single version of Perry's "Father of Girls" was included within the UK compilation

"The First Thirty Years" and the only known release on LP. Although recorded in stereo,

it was released within that compilation electronically reprocessed to simulate stereo.

The full stereo version of this single was first released in 1999 within the compact disc

compilation "The Essential 60's Singles Collection" from Taragon Records.

The original single version was re-recorded with a voice-over dub for Perry's 1968

album release "Look To Your Heart". Although the actual date of the re-recording

is not known, nor generally acknowledged, it probably occurred during the album sessions

from June 5th to 19th, 1968.  All other album re-releases of this song have been the 1968 version.

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