That's What Girls Are Made For

"That's What Girls Are Made For"
Single by The Spinners
from the album The Spinners: Their Early Years & The Original Spinners
B-side	"Heebie Jeebies"
Released	August, 1961
Recorded	May, 1961, Tri-Phi Studios, Detroit, Michigan
Genre	Doo-wop, R&B
Length	2:52
Label	Tri-Phi Records TP 1001
Writer(s)	Harvey Fuqua Gwen Gordy Fuqua
Producer(s)	Harvey Fuqua
The Spinners singles chronology
--- "That's What Girls Are Made For" (1961) "Love (I'm So Glad I Found You)" (1961)

"That's What Girls Are Made For" is the debuting single for the American R&B/Soul vocal group The Spinners, released on Harvey Fuqua's Tri-Phi Records label in 1961.

The single featured most of the original members of the group including original lead singer Bobby Smith and featured a very young Marvin Gaye playing drums. Harvey Fuqua and his then-girlfriend Gwen Gordy made the song simply for them to record.

Released nationally on Tri-Phi, the song reached number 27 on the Billboard Hot 100^[1] and number 5 on the Hot R&B Songs chart, starting a long successful run for the group, who later found success with neighboring Detroit label Motown Records in the mid-1960s and Philadelphia soul-based records with Atlantic Records in the 1970s.^[2][3]

Credits

• Lead vocals by Bobby Smith^[4]
• Background vocals by Bobby Smith, George Dixon, Pervis Jackson, Henry Fambrough and Billy Henderson
• Drums by Marvin Gaye
• Other Instrumentation by Various session artists (including possibly The Funk Brothers)

Chart history

Chart (1961)	Peak position
U.S. Billboard Hot 100 Chart	27
U.S. Billboard Hot R&B Singles	5

References

1. Carolina Beach Music
2. "US Charts > The Spinners". Allmusic. Retrieved 2012-11-18.
3. Whitburn, Joel (2010). Hot R&B Songs 1942-2010: 6th Edition. Record Research.
4. "Bobby Smith, lead singer of The Spinners, dies". USA TODAY. Retrieved 2016-06-09.