![]() ![]() T he Isleys’ British success with “Smile” was all the more unusual, given that the track had merely occupied the trio’s Soul On The Rocks album in 1967, then appeared as the flip of a U.S. Oh, and Marvin Gaye’s “I Heard It Through The Grapevine” had only just wrapped up its three-week run at Number One. Walker & the All Stars and “Nowhere To Run” by Martha & the Vandellas, were also moving up the best-sellers. The very week that “Behind A Painted Smile” made its chart debut, Stevie Wonder’s “I Don’t Know Why” was climbing the Top 20, while two reissues, “(I’m A) Road Runner” by Jr. ![]() SONGWRITERS: Ivy Jo Hunter, Beatrice Verdi.īACKSTORY: The spring of ’69 was a prosperous season for Motown Records in Britain, where the company was better known as Tamla Motown. singles chart (as Tamla Motown 693) on Wednesday, April 16, 1969.
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