Marvelette Gladys Horton not only sang lead on this song, but also co-wrote it with Robert Bateman, Brian Holland, and William "Mickey" Stevenson. Bateman and Holland also worked on the first Marvelettes hit, "Please Mr. Postman" - you'll notice the similarities.
This song finds the Marvelettes giving the kiss-off to a playboy. They know his type: sweet talking a girl and then leaving her for his next conquest. The lyrics are surprisingly hip, with lines like "I can't stand for what you're putting down" and "you ain't saying nothin' in my book." If you swapped out "playboy" for its more modern equivalent, "playa," the lyric could resemble something heard in an '00s R&B song.
This was the first Hot 100 hit with the word "playboy" in the title. The word was in the popular lexicon: Playboy magazine launched in 1953, and groups called The Playboys and John Fred And The Playboys were on the chart that decade.
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