How Many Songs Can You Name That Were About Playas/Players? !

[marv2]

This sounds like a joke, but I seriously want to have fun with this one. Listening to Mary singing "Floy Joy" recently made me think of songs that referred to a playa/ player. It could be about a male or female player. How many can you come up with?

I'll get things started with First Choice and "The Player"!



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sa9aVpvZgXM

[luke]

Was Nathan Jones a player?? Great thread!

[gary_james]

Mr. Big Stuff - Jean Knight

[luke]

Hit the Road JACK!

[arrr&bee]

Actually the greatest[playa]song of all time is the classic[thank you john-willie tee-1965-atlantic]take a close listen!!

[marv2]

Was Nathan Jones a player?? Great thread!

Now that's a good one! I forgot about him......hehehehehehehehe LOL!

[marv2]

Mr. Big Stuff - Jean Knight

A most definite YES!

[marv2]

Actually the greatest[playa]song of all time is the classic[thank you john-willie tee-1965-atlantic]take a close listen!!

I am going to find that one!

[marv2]

Hey, y'all remember Syreeta's "Quick Slick"?


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=byg681Ktgis

[marv2]

Of course we have the iconic ode to players........Dion DiMucci's "The Wander"!

[arrr&bee]

Michael the lover..lover boy[the spinners]..don't knock my love[wilson pickett]girls[the moments]..i ain't got the love[the ambassadors].

[pshark]

And don't forget the playgirls!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ls2Dm3OnUM

What goes around cums around

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3S7Mk8g97t4

It might be wrong but it sho feels right

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mn1qF4aC71U

And a player can only play so much until his playing days are played

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=coM_6KZn1Tw

[marv2]

Pshark!!!!! You came through HARD with some classics about this subject! I had forgot. By the way, Michael the Lover was very popular way back when, but was it by the Spinners?

[arrr&bee]

pshark!!!!! You came through hard with some classics about this subject! I had forgot. By the way, michael the lover was very popular way back when, but was it by the spinners?i think it was the[cod's].

[pshark]

Here's one more

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E4MzSU44ewc

[marv2]

If you didn't know it, women can be playas toooooooo! Kanaye West's "Gold Digger"



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6vwNcNOTVzY

[marv2]

i think it was the[cod's].

I think you're right JAI.

[marv2]

Now for the BIGGEST Playa of the ALL! Bigger than Biggie! Big Punisher aka Big Pun! [[Parental Discretion Advised)



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DwEqTbaFVXU

[paladin]

Dont forget "Joe's" Mega Hit I Dont Want to be a Player No More" and to add a little flava how about :


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uB1D9wWxd2w

[blueskies]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J3lw0qHNGJk

Casanova [[your playing days are over)....Ruby Andrews

Hey Marv...this is fun. Nice to get back to some fun stuff around here! Thanks!

[marv2]

Blueskies, I agree. This is fun! Paladin I Dont Want to be a Player No More" is right above your post man of Return of the Mack!

[marv2]

Proof that even "good girls" get played every now and then. High Inergy with "He's A Pretender"!


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5JgJ1IiEng

[marv2]

Casanova by Ruby Andrews fits this subject perfectly! Definitely a classic to infidelity! LOL!

[luke]

Does "Playboy" count?

[pshark]

Pshark!!!!! You came through HARD with some classics about this subject! I had forgot. By the way, Michael the Lover was very popular way back when, but was it by the Spinners?Found it. It was by the MAD LADS
http://www.rhapsody.com/the-mad-lads/in-action--rhino-atlantic/michael-the-lover-lp-version

Jackson 5 also had a song with the same name

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mc1WgnPyNd8

[mark speck]

The C.O.D's out of Chicago first hit with "Michael [[The Lover)" in 1965...it was also covered by Geno Washington [[the UK guy posing as Gino).

Also an obscure tune by the Trainrobbers called "Tricky Dick"...I think this one would qualify.

Best,

Mark

[mark speck]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jd2bcKWUic0

[gary_james]

The Cheater - Bob Kuban & the Inmen
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zToZZOTmeXo

[uptight]

Luke, I was gonna say "Playboy" by the Marvelettes.
Also "You Met Your Match" and maybe "Part-time Lover" by Stevie Wonder.

[marv2]

Does "Playboy" count?

YES! It certainly counts. Just listen to the lyrics.

[marv2]

The C.O.D's out of Chicago first hit with "Michael [[The Lover)" in 1965...it was also covered by Geno Washington [[the UK guy posing as Gino).

Also an obscure tune by the Trainrobbers called "Tricky Dick"...I think this one would qualify.

Best,

Mark



Great information Mark. I didn't know about the other versions until now. My old math teacher and basketball coach , Michael Jones would sometimes DJ our Junior High hops and he'd play "Michael the Lover" at the end of the night as it was his favorite song. LOL! RIP Coach Jones.

[marv2]

The Cheater - Bob Kuban & the Inmen
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zToZZOTmeXo

Absolutely perfect!!!!

[marv2]

How about Fleetwood Mac and "Dreams" "Players only love you when they're playin'......."

[marv2]

A few more prime examples:

William Bell - "Trying to Love Two [[Ain't Easy to Do)"
Pointer Sisters - "Betcha Got A Chick On the Side"
Dion - "RunaroundSue"

[blueskies]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0atv9v2nNww

Dirty Old Man....Three Degrees

[GeeTee(HPK)]

The answer to Jean Knight's hit,from a male's perspective. :p


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uN1ArlkhKQw

and of course this one by Lowell Fulsom


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lsgFYY5XXUQ

[nosey]

Cheaters Never Win - Love Committee

[marv2]

Cheaters Never Win - Love Committee

Good one Nosey! I forgot about that one.

How about Billie Holiday's "My Man"?

[Motown_M_1056]

Willie Tee's Teasin' You is about a female player.

[paladin]

Ok, The Temptations chime in with an underated cut about a female player and to this day its a unique record in their catalog because these guys didn't really sing about femme fatales of this caliber......in short they were saying ...just say no.....the record taken from the Smiling Faces Album " I'm the Exception To The Rule"........Otis, Dennis & Eddie telling the girl you aint gonna play on me.....


And who of you could forget the notorious Chuckii Booker and his hit "Games"..........an upbeat companion pice to the Temptations dirge about those freaky females.....

[tamla617]

JODY!
standing in for jody.........johnnie taylor [[maybe not then)
[[talking bout jody) come back and get you shoes jody[[you left your shoes under my bed) ....bobby newsome
jody's got your girl and gone....johnnie taylor again [[must have a downer on jody)
jody's got your girl..........cadence

[pshark]

The live version is smokin!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KOTOnFKKx7M&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jk31242CnkU

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OmlCY7JUFPc

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cS4LCoh0VGQ

[arrr&bee]

You might have to include the great classic[sixty minute man-the dominoes]this brother was a mack from way back!!

[marv2]

You might have to include the great classic[sixty minute man-the dominoes]this brother was a mack from way back!!


You're right! He does say " I rock 'em, roll 'em...all night long, I'm the sixty-minute man!" He sure isn't talking about just one lady.......hehehehehe!

[marv2]

Is "You're So Vain" by Carly Simon about a player or what?

[soulster]

Something you old guys probably don't like: Big-'Ol Butt - LL Cool J

[uptight]

Johnnie Taylor "Who's Making Love?"

[sunshineonacloudyday]

You Played On A Player - Garland Green

[MIKEW-UK]

Tyrone Davis - It Sure Wasn't Me
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uIZk23RHK6Y

Don Covay I Was Checkin' Out She Was Checkin' In
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=huGM3z5VQaA


Clarence Carter - I Got Caught
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3A4iwrpT_LQ&feature=fvsr

Roger Hatcher - I Got Caught
http://www.youtube.com/user/Boblet233?blend=4&ob=5#p/u/0/5DPqf5BMuz8

Smokey Robinson the Agony and the Ecstacy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7yulQAPtw2o

Impressions You Been Cheatin
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AwZqFzIjj6k

Facinations Girls Are Out To Get You
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QHc7RWONz8E&feature=related

David Ruffin - The Double Cross
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7mu8fXaDvWU

[destruction]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vh-2_kdVcyA

Clean Up Woman.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j1RNoJZ0EYk

Arrbee and Marv2......Later in the Game.....

Can't Do Sixty No More

[paladin]

Ok lets keep this thread going:

Lee Cross/Walter Jackson

Cool/Gigolo's Get Lonely Too/The Time

Slick/Willie Hutch

Kiddio [[female player) Brook Benton

Talk Show Shhhhh/Shae Jones

[marv2]

Alright Paladin, let's go way, way, back! How about the song "Frankie and Johnnie" by Sam Cooke [[covered by several others)?

[marv2]

Quincy Jones - "The Dude"

[marv2]

Ok lets keep this thread going:

Lee Cross/Walter Jackson

Cool/Gigolo's Get Lonely Too/The Time

Slick/Willie Hutch

Kiddio [[female player) Brook Benton

Talk Show Shhhhh/Shae Jones

Y'all are pulling out some good ones. I haven't heard Gigolos Get Lonely Too by the Time in a long while

[marv2]

Jay Z - "Girls, Girls, Girls"
Notorious B.I.G - "Big Poppa"

[marv2]

and course, the EPIC......."It's Hard Out Here For A Pimp"!


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RfD2PWx3WHg

[mark speck]

Here's a country tune, by a country lady who's done a few soul covers, including "If Loving You Is Wrong [[I Don't Want to Be Right)"..."One of a Kind Pair of Fools"--Barbara Mandrell

Best,

Mark

[paladin]

Heres another......Oh my goodness........and the Fabulous Dramatics.....


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zu15t1kNiHY

[pshark]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JaXLqpEDRcI&feature=related
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xk3ai_george-clinton-atomic-dog_music
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xf8h9i_fatback-i-like-the-girls_music
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJoh7tOq9Ac

[tamla617]

marv
you're so vain is supposed to be about neil sedaka,who she was with for a time.i heard that back in the '70's
but the other day i heard it was warren beatty and he was a player

[pshark]

the song was about Ronald McDonald.
She still refuse to reveal who it is. Could be herself

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MzldlOG7EqE&feature=player_embedded
http://www.carlysimon.com/vain/vain.html

[destruction]

Dozens of Blues songs....but the first that comes to mind is:

Taildragger - Howling Wolf

I'm a tail dragger
I wipe out my track
When I get what I want
I don't come sneakin' back

The mighty wolf
Make it a midnight creep
The hunters
And they can't find him

Stealin' chicks
Everywhere he go
Then draggin' his tail
Behind him

[marv2]

The O'Jays - "Your Body's Here With Me" [[But Your Mind is On the Other Side of Town)!

[nysister]

Guess Who I Saw Today - Nancy Wilson
I Was Checking Out while She was Checking In - Don Covey
Secret Lover - Atlantic Starr
"Picture" - Kid Rock and Cheryl Crowe

[marv2]

Guess Who I Saw Today - Nancy Wilson
I Was Checking Out while She was Checking In - Don Covey
Secret Lover - Atlantic Starr
"Picture" - Kid Rock and Cheryl Crowe

Nice ones NYSister! Especially Nancy Wilson's "Guess Who I Saw Today"!

[jboy88]

I often wondered whether or not The storyteller from Marvin Gaye's "Where Ever I Lay My Hat" was supposed to be the deceased father to the storytellers on "Papa Was a Rollin' Stone" especially since they reference the former track in the chorus.

[nabob]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f77gKdNlDIs
Isaac Hayes: Good Love 69969 [Black Moses]pre-dated rap by about 6 years. The phrasing is phenomenal. This is one boastful playa!