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Traces (song)

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Released
  
January 1969

Length
  
2:45

Recorded
  
1968

B-side
  
"Mary, Mary Row Your Boat"

Format
  
Vinyl record (7" 45 RPM)

Genre
  
Jazz fusion, Pop-rock, psychedelic rock, surf rock

"Traces" is a 1968 song by the American rock band Classics IV. Released as a single in January 1969, the song served as the title track off their Traces album. It was written by Buddy Buie, J. R. Cobb and Emory Gordy Jr. The song peaked at position 2 on both the Billboard Hot 100 and Adult Contemporary music charts, making it the highest charting single by the Classics IV, charting even higher than that of "Spooky", "Stormy" and "Everyday With You Girl".

Jane Morgan covered the song on her 1969 LP of the same name, as well as releasing it as a single that same year; Soul singer Billy Paul covered the song on his 1970 album Ebony Woman. Harry James recorded a version on his 1976 album The King James Version (Sheffield Lab LAB 3).

"Traces" received the honor of being listed in BMI's Top 100 Songs of the Century at number 32.

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Traces (song) Wikipedia