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Can I Change My Mind

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A-side
  
"Can I Change My Mind"

Format
  
7"

Genre
  
Soul

Released
  
1968 (1968)

Recorded
  
1968

B-side
  
"A Woman Needs to Be Loved"

"Can I Change My Mind" is a 1968 single recorded by soul singer Tyrone Davis. It was his featured debut and in early 1969 replaced Marvin Gaye's "I Heard It through the Grapevine" to become the number-one song on the Billboard Hot R&B Singles chart, and also peaked at number five on the Hot 100

Cover Versions

  • Alton Ellis, circa '68, released "Can I Change My Mind" as the B side of the Delroy Wilson "Give Love A Try" single on the Studio One label.
  • An alternative version by Alton Ellis, "Change of Plan," was collected on the 1977 album Still in Love.
  • Jackie Mittoo's instrumental "Super Charge," on The Jackie Mittoo Showcase (Sonic Sounds LP, 1978), is a "riddim" version of the song. Gregory Isaac's contemporaneous vocal version, over Mittoo's instrumental track, "Can I Change My Mind," is included in an extended version with toasting by D.J. Ranking Barnabbas on Isaacs' 1990 CD "My Number One" (Heartbeat).
  • In 1980. Jermaine Jackson recorded the song as a track on his LP, Jermaine.
  • The Pietasters released a Ska influenced version of "Can I Change My Mind" on the album "Oolooloo" released by Moon Ska Records in 1996.
  • Bill Deal and the Rhondels did a "Beach Music" version of the song as well.
  • In 2012, indie band JJAMZ (now renamed PHASES) recorded the song as part of their debut album Suicide Pact.

    • References

    Can I Change My Mind Wikipedia
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