The Shoop Shoop Song (It's in His Kiss)

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"It's in His Kiss"
EverettShoop.jpg
Single record
Single by Betty Everett
from the album "You're No Good"
B-side "Hands Off"
ReleasedJanuary 1964 (1964-01)
RecordedNovember 26, 1963 (1963-11-26) [1]
Studio Universal Recording, Chicago [2]
Genre
Length2:12
Label Vee-Jay 585
Songwriter(s) Rudy Clark
Producer(s) Calvin Carter
Betty Everett singles chronology
"You're No Good"
(1963)
"It's in His Kiss"
(1964)
"I Can't Hear You"
(1964)

"It's in His Kiss" is a song written and composed by Rudy Clark. It was first released as a single in 1963 by Merry Clayton that did not chart. The song was made a hit a year later when recorded by Betty Everett, who hit No. 1 on the Cashbox magazine R&B charts with it in 1964. Recorded by dozens of artists and groups around the world in the decades since, the song became an international hit once again when remade by Cher in 1990.

Contents

The song is sung from the point of view of a woman trying to mentor a young girl in identifying true love. She emphatically insists, "it's in his kiss." She becomes frustrated with the girl, who suggests other things such as his behavior and his embrace might instead be the signs she is looking for. The woman scolds the girl for not listening to her, and insists that the one sure sign of true love is seen in a lover's kisses.

Merry Clayton version

The song was rejected by the Shirelles, the premier girl group of the early 1960s, [3] and was first recorded in Los Angeles by Merry Clayton as her first credited single. Clayton had previously provided an uncredited female vocal to the hit "You're the Reason I'm Living" recorded by Bobby Darin as his debut on Capitol Records, and Darin had subsequently arranged for Clayton herself to be signed to Capitol. The composer of "It's in His Kiss", Rudy Clark, was a staff writer for TM Music, which Darin headed. Clayton's recording of the song was produced by Jack Nitzsche and featured Hal Blaine on drums and the Blossoms as chorus. It was released as a single on June 10, 1963, without success.

Clayton performed the song again in the 1987 film Maid to Order in which she, as the character Audrey James, sang the song in the film's climactic scene accompanied by the fictional band Loaded Blanks, played by Jack Russell, Lorne Black, Audie Desbrow, Mark Kendall and Michael Lardie of rock band Great White. [4]

Betty Everett version

Background

Calvin Carter, the chief A&R man for the Chicago-located Vee-Jay Records, found "It's in His Kiss" while visiting New York City in search of material for the Vee-Jay roster which included Betty Everett. After Everett had a hit with another song Carter brought back from New York City, "You're No Good", Carter suggested Everett cut "It's in His Kiss" as the follow-up single. Everett – who found the song puerile – reluctantly agreed. The accompanying vocals on Everett's recording were provided by Vee-Jay session regulars The Opals, a trio of teenage girls (Rose "Tootsie" Addison, Myra Tilliston, and Rose E. Kelley) [5] from East Chicago, Indiana.

Dave Marsh in his book The Heart of Rock and Soul opines that Betty Everett's version, "while [credited] as a solo performance is one of the finest girl group hits, undoubtedly the best one made outside the genre's New York City/Philadelphia/Los Angeles "axis"". [6]

Reception

Everett's version of "The Shoop Shoop Song" reached number 6 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in the spring of 1964: at the time Billboard was not publishing its R&B chart but her cover was a number 1 R&B hit according to Cash Box . In international release, Everett's "The Shoop Shoop Song" was also a hit in Australia reaching number 21 but was initially overlooked in the UK although Everett's minor 1965 U.S. hit "Getting Mighty Crowded" (number 65) would reach number 29 in the UK. In 1968, the label President Records reissued both songs on one single, with "The Shoop Shoop Song" as the A-side, that peaked at number 34. In Canada it reached number 5. [7]

Ramona King version

The next recording of "It's in His Kiss" was made in Los Angeles by Ramona King, an R&B singer from San Francisco: this version was produced by Joe Saraceno and former Phil Spector associate Jerry Riopelle and released on Warner Brothers in February 1964, the week prior to the release of Everett's version. Although Everett's single was more likely to receive airplay due to her being an established hitmaker (with "You're No Good"), Vee-Jay feared losing sales to the King version and opted to distinguish Everett's version by issuing it under the title "The Shoop Shoop Song" referring to the song's background vocals.

Linda Lewis version

"It's in His Kiss"
Single by Linda Lewis
from the album Not a Little Girl Anymore
B-side "Walk About"
Released1975
Recorded1975
Studio Mediasound, New York City
Genre Disco
Length3:09
Label Arista
Songwriter(s) Rudy Clark
Producer(s)
  • Bert DeCoteaux
  • Tony Silvester
Linda Lewis singles chronology
"(Remember the Days of) The Old Schoolyard"
(1974)
"It's in His Kiss"
(1975)
"Rock and Roller Coaster"
(1975)
Official audio
"It's in His Kiss" on YouTube

Background

"The Shoop Shoop Song" first became a major UK hit in 1975 via a disco version entitled "It's in His Kiss" by British vocalist Linda Lewis recorded at Mediasound Studios in New York City with producers Bert de Couteaux and Tony Silvester in a session which also yielded Lewis' recording of her own composition "Rock and Roller Coaster". Lewis would recall: "Clive [Davis]" - Arista Records founder and president - "sent me over to New York [City] to work with Bert DeCoteaux, who’d [produced] Sister Sledge and people like that...And I had all these amazing backing vocalists, like Deniece Williams and Luther Vandross in the studio. I was like, 'Oh, my God!' I’m just this little girl from the East End...I just went in the studio and just hit the nail on the head, apparently." [8] Clive Davis had the idea of Lewis remaking a classic hit song disco-style and had several "oldies" played for Lewis in the studio: (Lewis quote:)"As soon as ['It's in His Kiss'] came on we all said 'That's the one!'" [9] Lewis would state: "I always loved the song and used to sing it in the bath" while opining that making a disco record "isn't really me". [9]

Reception

Issued as "It's in His Kiss" — despite containing a variant of the "shoop shoop" background vocal – Lewis' version became a UK Top Ten hit in August 1975:. [10] on July 26, 1975, the track had been ranked at number 13 in its third charting week, its advance to number 8 on the August 2, 1975 chart being assisted by Lewis' performance of the song on the TOTP episode dated July 24, 1975, with the track reaching its UK chart peak of number 6 on August 9, 1975, with a third and final Top Ten ranking at number 9 on August 16, 1975. [11] "It's in His Kiss" also afforded Lewis an Irish Top Ten hit at number 9, and in the US ranked as high as number 11 in club play with peripheral cross-over to the R&B chart in Billboard at number 96, while the track almost reached the Billboard Hot 100, "bubbling under" at number 107. [12] "It's in His Kiss" was included on Lewis' debut Arista Records album release Not a Little Girl Anymore which reached number 40 in the UK Albums Chart. [10]

Linda Ronstadt performances

On the episode of Saturday Night Live broadcast May 19, 1979, Linda Ronstadt and Phoebe Snow performed "The Shoop Shoop Song" as a duet; in an October 2008 interview Snow stated that she and Ronstadt "always talked about" recording "The Shoop Shoop Song", adding: "Maybe we still will"; [13] although the duet remained unrecorded at the time of Snow's April 26, 2011, death. When Ronstadt participated in two benefit concerts for Jerry Brown on December 21–22, 1979, she performed "The Shoop Shoop Song". That number – featuring vocal accompaniment from Nicolette Larson – was one of six songs performed by Ronstadt which were announced as tracks on her upcoming album Mad Love : [14] however, Mad Love was issued in February 1980 without the inclusion of "The Shoop Shoop Song". Ronstadt performed "The Shoop Shoop Song" as a guest on an episode of The Muppet Show broadcast October 26, 1980. At the Rally For Nuclear Disarmament concert held in Central Park on June 12, 1982, Ronstadt's set included "The Shoop Shoop Song": vocal accompaniment was provided by Nicolette Larson and Rosemary Butler. Had Ronstadt recorded "The Shoop Shoop Song" for her Mad Love album it would have been produced by Peter Asher, who would eventually produce the 1990 international smash hit cover by Cher.

Cher version

"The Shoop Shoop Song (It's in His Kiss)"
Cher-the-shoop-shoop-song-promo-usa.JPG
Single by Cher
from the album Music From the Original Motion Picture Soundtrack - Mermaids and Love Hurts
B-side "Love on a Rooftop"
ReleasedNovember 7, 1990
Length2:51
Label
Songwriter(s) Rudy Clark
Producer(s) Peter Asher
Cher singles chronology
"Baby I'm Yours"
(1990)
"The Shoop Shoop Song (It's in His Kiss)"
(1990)
"Love and Understanding"
(1991)
Music video
"The Shoop Shoop Song (It's In His Kiss) (Alternate Version)" on YouTube

Background

Cher's cover was for the soundtrack of her 1990 film Mermaids , in which it plays during the closing credits, and the single's U.S. release coincided with the November release of the film. It peaked at number 33 on the Billboard Hot 100, and number one in the United Kingdom. The song was Cher's first solo number one single; her only previous number one in the United Kingdom had been in 1965 with her then-husband Sonny Bono and their first hit, "I Got You Babe".

Cher's "The Shoop Shoop Song" also topped the charts in Austria, Ireland and Norway; the single achieved a number two peak in Belgium and top ten status in France, Germany, New Zealand, Australia, Switzerland, Netherlands and Sweden.

The success of the single in the United Kingdom and Continental Europe was reflected in its addition to Love Hurts , her subsequent album, as released in those parts of the world, Australia and New Zealand. "The Shoop Shoop Song" was also included in the album's Canadian release but not in the U.S. "The Shoop Shoop Song" was not available on a U.S. Cher album until the 1999 release of If I Could Turn Back Time: Cher's Greatest Hits .

Critical reception

Larry Flick from Billboard wrote, "Fun and faithful cover of Betty Everett's pop nugget is lifted from the soundtrack to Cher's new film, "Mermaids". Truly irresistible." [15]

Music video

The original video for "The Shoop Shoop Song (It's in His Kiss)" was directed by Marty Callner, and made to promote the movie Mermaids . The video features Cher with Winona Ryder and Christina Ricci, who played her daughters in the film, in a music studio in the clothes and styles of the 1960s period of the film, clips of which are shown throughout. Near the end, the video switches from black-and-white to color and Cher and the girls are shown in jeans and leather jackets spray-painting a wall in an alley. A revised video was issued which deleted the clips of the film from the video. The leather jacket at the end of the video is one of the earliest custom Chrome Hearts jackets ever made.

Track listing

  1. "The Shoop Shoop Song (It's in His Kiss)" – 2:51
  2. "Love on a Rooftop" – 4:22
  1. "The Shoop Shoop Song (It's in His Kiss)" – 2:51
  2. "Baby I'm Yours" – 3:19
  1. "The Shoop Shoop Song (It's in His Kiss)" – 2:51
  2. "Baby I'm Yours" – 3:19
  3. "We All Sleep Alone" – 3:53
  1. "The Shoop Shoop Song (It's in His Kiss)" – 2:51
  2. "Love and Understanding" – 4:42
  3. "Save Up All Your Tears" – 3:58
  1. "The Shoop Shoop Song (It's in His Kiss)" (Obsession Mix) – 8:21
  2. "The Shoop Shoop Song (It's in His Kiss)" (Crush Mix) – 8:19
  3. "The Shoop Shoop Song (It's in His Kiss)" (Ventura Party Dub) – 6:45
  4. "The Shoop Shoop Song (It's in His Kiss)" (Ventura Radio Edit) – 4:03

Charts

Certifications and sales

RegionCertification Certified units/sales
Australia (ARIA) [58] Platinum70,000^
Austria (IFPI Austria) [59] Gold25,000*
Denmark (IFPI Danmark) [60] Gold45,000
France (SNEP) [61] Silver200,000*
Germany (BVMI) [62] Gold250,000^
New Zealand (RMNZ) [63] Gold5,000*
United Kingdom (BPI) [64] Gold483,000 [65]

* Sales figures based on certification alone.
^ Shipments figures based on certification alone.
Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone.

Release history

RegionDateFormat(s)Label(s)Ref.
United StatesNovember 7, 1990
  • 7-inch vinyl
  • cassette
Geffen [ citation needed ]
United KingdomApril 1, 1991
  • 7-inch vinyl
  • CD
  • cassette
Epic [66]

Other versions

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