I'm Your Puppet - James & Bobby Purify
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James & Bobby Purify, 1967
Written by Dan Penn and Spooner Oldham
A sweet Southern R&B song about the narrator's slavish devotion to his lady. "Treat me good and I′ll do anything / I'm just a puppet and you hold my strings." It's a low and slow burn, until the end, when some impassioned wailing falsettos come in. The cousins' smooth harmonies and the low horn stabs are enhanced by a repeating line of ascending chimes. Apparently, the song was re-recorded in 1976 without Bobby Purify, adding a new singer who simply adopted the stage name. I believe that the recording linked here is the original, but I guess I have no way of knowing for certain.
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