"Live Wire" is a 1964 dance single released by Motown girl group Martha and the Vandellas.
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Single by Martha and the Vandellas | ||||
from the album Greatest Hits | ||||
B-side | "Old Love (Let's Try Again)" | |||
Released | January 17, 1964 | |||
Recorded | Hitsville U.S.A. (Studio A); 1963 | |||
Genre | Soul, pop | |||
Length | 2:35 | |||
Label | Gordy | |||
Songwriter(s) | Holland–Dozier–Holland | |||
Producer(s) | Brian Holland, Lamont Dozier | |||
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The song was produced by Holland–Dozier–Holland under the same gospel-pop confection of their earlier hit singles "(Love Is Like a) Heat Wave" and "Quicksand". The song explained why the narrator can't come up with words to tell her lover that she was through with him because when she looks at him, she feels that he is "like a bolt of lightning" and that he's a "live wire".
Cash Box described it as "a red rocker that should move way out in no time flat" demonstrating the "fabulous hit-making excitement that showed up on 'Heat Wave.'"[1]
The song failed to hit the Top 40 of the pop chart (peaking at #42) and reached #11 on Cashbox's R&B singles chart (the Billboard R&B chart was suspended until January 1965).[3][4]
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