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Other two songs were "You've Really Got A Hold On Me" and "Please Mr. Postman".
MONEY (THAT’S WHAT I WANT) / [Intro] / Riff (Over E ) A E A B A E A E break B / [Verse 1] / E A The best things in life are free E You can keep them for the birds and bees Now give me / A
The obvious answer, love, had been done many times before, so money was the choice.
Let us know what you think of the Last.fm website. On this track, Strong played the piano, Benny Benjamin (who became a Motown mainstay) played the drums, Brian Holland (later famous as part of the Holland-Dozier-Holland songwriting team) played tambourine, and a white musician named Eugene Grew played guitar.
Their version was recorded in one day in the band leader David Cunningham's living room.
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