What are some of your best "Cheating Songs"

[soulballad]

...and no I'm not condoning cheating!!!! LOL! One of my favorites from back in the day was "Caught In The Act" By Facts Of Life" and "Bumpy Road Ahead" By the Lovelites to name a few. This was true soul music

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TbbaD0EWhNc

BTW I can really hear Ann Bogan doing the female lead part on "Caught In The Act"

[MIKEW-UK]

Freddie North Swamp Dogg Did I Come Back Too Soon [[Or Stay Away Too Long)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=at8atBP5hjM

[Kamasu_Jr]

Freddie North Swamp Dogg Did I Come Back Too Soon [[Or Stay Away Too Long)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=at8atBP5hjM

Trying To Love Two - William Bell
She Kept On Talking - Dee Dee Warwick
Mr. & Mrs. Untrue - Candi Staton
Before He Cheats - Carrie Underwood
Bust the Windows Out Of Your Car - Jazmine Sullivan
Tha Rain _ Oran "Juice" Jones

[ralpht]

Me and Mrs. Jones

[paladin]

Let me get a little pre-Temptations in here Mr Tyson if you please;




The keyboards, bass, drums and guitar were killer........trying to step to this song was simply murder, sweat popping, dresses flying, feet aching, what a great record.....

[tsull1]

"Listen to the Clock on the Wall" by The O'Jays.

[paladin]

Wait a minute both of the Mrs. Jones cuts were great, Billy Paul's and The Dramatics.....but this record has been on my play list for so long its absolutely ridiculous. Ron Banks and LJ cut this record when I was in the Air Force, my buddies and I drank plenty beers and shared many a story about this song..........since I have posted extensively about this song including the lyrics, I'll just let the song speak for itself.....ahem... "She was your friend from down the street, guess you might say we had to meet"........whoa !

[sophisticated_soul]

Guess Who I Saw Today - Julie London/Laura Lee

[smark21]

Your Cheating Ways-The Marvelettes
Woman to Woman-Shirley Brown
Everything I Miss at Home-Cherrelle

[paladin]

Thin Line Between Love and Hate/The Persuaders

Cheating In The Next Room/ZZ Hill

[skooldem1]

Well since the two that came to mind were already mentioned: The Rain [[Oran Juice Jones) and Me. & Mrs. Jones, I think I would like to throw in [[reppin Motown/Supremes) "Stop in the name of love". Does that qualify as a "cheating" song?

[skooldem1]

Any song by Shirley Murdoch.

[Doug-Morgan]

Clarence Carter -- Slip Away
Luther Ingram -- If Loving You Is Wrong
James Cotton [[et. al.) -- There Is Something On Your Mine

Although not a traditional "Cheatin' " song, I think George Jones' version of the Bobby Braddock/Curley Putman weeper "He Stopped Loving Her Today" fits in here somewhere.....

[MotownSteve]

All I Need - The Tempts
I Heard it Through the Grapevine - Marvin Gaye
You Cheated, You Lied - The Shields

[cdiii]

"Wish That You Were Mine," The Manhattans

[daddyacey]

Guess Who I Saw Today -- The Nancy Wilson version
If Loving You Is Wrong [[I Dont Want To Be Right) ---Millie Jackson version
I Dont Want To Do Wrong---Gladys Knight
I Dont Want To Do Wrong--- New Birth
One Woman-- Isaac Hayes
She Got Papers On Me--Richard "Dimples" Fields feat Betty Wright

[smark21]

All I Need - The Tempts
What's Going On - Marvin Gaye

I hope you're joking with your listing of "What's Going On".

[paladin]

Charles, how you doing man ?.....great selection, reminded me of old times and good songs which is precisely why I loved The Manhattans:

[mikey]

Marion Jarvis "Hell of a fix" http://youtu.be/dJ6N2DeeDVE

[MotownSteve]

I hope you're joking with your listing of "What's Going On".

I wasn't joking. My feeble mind put wrong song right artist. I corrected it.

[mr soul]

Here's some of my favourites...

Just One Moment - Johnnie Taylor http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aLYz2IOTrbE
Married, But Not to Each Other - Denise LaSalle http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XitqCuC-rSk
Dark End Of The Street - James Carr http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tzcdNwIkmYA
To The Other Woman [I'm The Other Woman] - Doris Duke http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qs0Oka0aOPo
Slip Away - Clarence Carter http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-0OSK9UK7M

[chidrummer]

Who's Makin' Love? - Johnnie Taylor
That's My Story[[and I'm Sticking to it) - Collin Raye

[caliluv]

Who's Cheating Who - Little Milton
Girlfriend, Your Husband is Cheating On Us - Denise LaSalle
Outside Love - Johnnie Taylor

[tomato tom]

Another Man by Barbara Mason. Didnt see THAT one coming!

[tomato tom]

Who did She was your woman, I was your wife. ? Cannot remember for the life of me! Thanks Paulo xxx

[MIKEW-UK]

i AM YOUR WOMAN, SHE IS YOUR WIFE

Barabara Mason

[caliluv]

Bill - Peggy Jo Benson

[GeeTee(HPK)]

Here's a favorite on mine,by Don Covay. [[don't ask me about the photo on the video) [[?)

http://youtu.be/VjXMCOBNDk4

[smark21]

I wasn't joking. My feeble mind put wrong song right artist. I corrected it.

Yep, I see your edit. That makes more sense. Although "What's Going On" would make a good title for a song about cheating.

[MotownSteve]

Yep, I see your edit. That makes more sense. Although "What's Going On" would make a good title for a song about cheating.

Considering that there were several instances were Motown writers changed lyrics and kept the music, could there be such a song deep in the vaults?

[MotownSteve]

Your Husband, My Wife - Johnny Maestro and the Brooklyn Bridge

[marv2]

Watching You - Loose Ends

[luke]

Woman to Woman; From his Woman to You; Messin Up Somebodys Home[[?); Stop In The Name Of Love; I'M Losin You[[maybe the best one)-chilling!!

[cdiii]

Brother Sarge!!!!

What's going on with YOU, my Brother!!!

Talk about GREAT selections!!! "It's Gonna Take A Lot To Bring Me Back"--one of the GREAT Manhattan tracks!!! Yeah, I still listen to "Wish That You Were Mine," one of their absolute GEMS from the Columbia era.

Take care, partner!!!

Charles

[mr soul]

Who's Been Warming My Oven - James Carr
All or Nothing - Patti Labelle & Her Bluebelles
I Caught You In A Lie - Robert Parker

[paladin]

So true CD, loved their work on Carnival, Deluxe and Columbia......seems to me that I'm getting a lot of mileage out this thread...lol........just this morning, I glanced at the title of the thread and said dam some of "my best" ??/ Well this afternoon I put on the Dells " I Wish It Was Me You Loved" which before this thread was just a favorite track of mine. When I listened closely I realized that it was about a guy who loved a woman whose husband was cheating on her and of course the Dells were imploring her to cheat with them....wow!

Another favorite of mine is the song "Thought It Would Be Easier" by Shelby Lynne. This woman knows how to sing a song about a cheating dude. Although I realized this was a cheating song from jump street, there's a line in this song where she
laments about love gone wrong :

They never told me I'd be lonely,
torn up and wasted
but when you saw something
else you liked
you couldn't wait to taste it
how was I to know about the way
You were scheming
I guess I must have been dreaming

The bass line is hypnotic, a very compelling record to say the least......

[daviddesper]

Just about any Denise LaSalle song fits this question, since that is her specialty. The previous posters named two of her best [[Married but not to Each Other, which Denise wrote although it is most often associated with Barbara Mandrell), and the hilarious Your Husband is Cheating on Us, which is a lyrical masterpiece. She also did a song a few years later called Paper Thin, referring to motel room walls. It is one of several songs I have heard over the years from Southern Soul artists in which the story is about a spouse being in one room cheating, only to hear or find out that their other half is in the next room doing the same thing.

Ann Peebles in her prime also was great at cheating songs, such as I'm Gonna Tear Your Playhouse Down and You've Got the Papers [[I Got the Man.) I could probably think of dozens of others, since I love this type song.

[daddyacey]

I don't know how I could have missed the most complex whiny cheating related song ever ,that being the classic "Heard It Through The Grapevine" ,by Marvin Gaye ,and the equal classic ,up in your face version of Gladys Knight and The Pips.
I agree on that Don Covay track....Thats a deep situation.
Also I want to add ,Bobby Womacks ,"I Wish He Didn't Trust Me So Much" and Smokeys classic ,"Agony and The Ecstasy" and
Bloodstones ,"Outside Woman". That Bloodstone track is ....Deep!!!!!

[paladin]

Bloodstones ,"Outside Woman". That Bloodstone track is ....Deep!!!!!

Thats ok DA, you stole my next entry. You dam right the song is deep......bet he woke up feeling like one of the Persuaders in Thin Line.....

"I lay next to another woman and call out your name"............


another great track......

[sunshineonacloudyday]

Somebody's Been Sleeping - 100 Proof Aged in Soul

Hurry Up This Way Again - Stylistics

[the_classic_master]

the agony and ecstasy - smokey robinson
you me and he - mtume
the other woman - the soul children
we're getting careless with our love - johnnie taylor
somebody's gettin' it - johnnie taylor
doggin me around - jackie wilson
i ain't gonna stand for it - stevie wonder

[MotownSteve]

The Cheater - Bob Kuban and the In-Men

Strangely enough, Walter Scott, who was the lead singer on the song, was murdered by his wife's lover.

[daddyacey]

Thats ok DA, you stole my next entry. You dam right the song is deep......bet he woke up feeling like one of the Persuaders in Thin Line.....

"I lay next to another woman and call out your name"............


another great track......

"In a state of shock , That much ,that much from being dead" , LOL

I got 4 more , "Just Be Good To Me"--SOS Band , Skyys "Call Me" , Chakas "You Can Make The Story Right" and Toni Braxtons
"Love Should Have Brought You To Me Last Night"

[the_classic_master]

it's over now - luther vandross

[mr soul]

My Baby's Been Cheating [[ I Know ) - AC Reed
Who's Cheating Who - Little Milton
I've Caught You Cheating - Adventurers
Why Did You Put Your Shoes Under My Bed - Don Covay

[144man]

90% of the releases on Invictus / Hot Wax!

[theboyfromxtown]

144man. I have just read through this whole thread and noticed Sophisticated and sunshineon...picked my choices. So I was about to go with "If I Could See The Light In The Window" but it seems you got there first!

On Honey Cone's While You're Out Lookign For Sugar.....what was going on "Sneaking across the floor with your shoes in your hand"?

[144man]

John, I never have to sneak across the floor with my shoes in my hand because I always wait until I see the light in the window...unlike John Terry who often sees the England Football team through the light shining through the crack in the wardrobe door.

How about Freda Payne "Love on Borrowed Time" or Laura Lee "Rip Off"?

[theboyfromxtown]

You're picking all my favourites!

Pulling the telephone from the wall so he can make NO calls....LOVE Laura

[tallone]

Baby, I'm Sorry.................The Manhattans
Turn out the Stars............The Manhattans / Ali Ollie Woodson