Saturday, January 12, 2019

"You Really Got a Hold on Me"

An-other thing I noticed when I listened to the first disc of Live at the BBC a couple days ago is that "always" in the line "Seems that I'm always thinkin' of you" in "You Really Got a Hold on Me" is sung with a melisma (F# F# E), musically giving a sense of the duration of "always."  This is also present in the Beatles' studio version and in Smokey Robinson & the Miracles' original "You've Really Got a Hold on Me."