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What'cha Gonna Do About It

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Released
  
1964

Genre
  
Funk/Soul

Recorded
  
1964

Label
  
Atlantic Records

Writer(s)
  
Doris Payne - Gregory Carroll - Rex Garvin

What'cha Gonna Do About It is a 1964 song by Doris Troy. It made #37 on the UK Singles Chart in 1964 and #38 in 1965.

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Musical composition

Featuring a stuttering single-note piano line throughout - giving the song a Caribbean feel to the record - the song is a cocky warning to her man to change his ways for the good of their relationship.

Peter Doyle cover version

New Seekers vocalist Peter Doyle, before joining the New Seekers, did a cover of What'cha Gonna Do About It which made #27 on the ARIA Charts.

Other cover versions

  • The Hollies did a British Invasion cover version of this for their debut album Stay with The Hollies.
  • Cilla Black did a cover of this for her debut album Cilla.

    • References

    What'cha Gonna Do About It Wikipedia
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