"Little Woman" is a 1969 song recorded by
Bobby Sherman
Robert Cabot Sherman Jr. (born July 22, 1943) is an American singer and actor who was a teen idol in the late 1960s and early 1970s. He had a series of successful singles, notably the million-seller " Little Woman" (1969). Sherman left show bus ...
and composed by
Danny Janssen.
Background
Session musicians on this recording included James Burton and Alton Hendrickson on guitar, Don Randi on piano, Jerry Scheff on bass, Richard Hyde on trombone, Joe Burnett and Ollie Mitchell on trumpet, Theodore Nash and Jim Horn on sax, William Kurasch, Leonard Malarsky, Paul Shure, Gloria Strassner, Assa Drori and Samuel Cytron on violins, David Filerman on cello, Emil Richards on percussion, Jim Gordon on drums. Initial copies were released with Sherman singing
Bob Dylan
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's song "One Too Many Mornings" as B-side. Some later copies substituted "Love", a song written by Sherman himself.
Chart performance
Sherman's first single release on
Metromedia Records, it reached No. 3 on the
''Billboard'' Hot 100 and achieved
gold
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certification. On the rival
Cashbox chart, it reached No. 1 for one week. It also sold well in Canada, where it reached No. 2 in the
RPM
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Standards
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charts. In New Zealand, "Little Woman" reached No. 5. The song earned Sherman a gold record, his first of four in the U.S.
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See also
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Little Women (disambiguation)
References
1969 songs
1969 singles
Bobby Sherman songs
Cashbox number-one singles
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