Featuring Betty Wright giving him the 411!

There is another version of this where Betty talks about a minute or so longer past where this album version fades out. I've only heard it on the radio, but have never seen it anywhere.

MickyDolenz said:

There is another version of this where Betty talks about a minute or so longer past where this album version fades out. I've only heard it on the radio, but have never seen it anywhere.

I know what you're talking about. When I used to play my radio station, one of the R&B stations that used to play "old-school" soul music would play this and I think I did hear more. Can't seem to find it on YouTube though lol

I was about 7 when I heard this song for the first time and I kept wondering what kind of papers the woman had on him-newspapers, school papers, homework? I just couldn't make sense of it, although I figured if it was school papers in the form of math, I would be upset as well.

scriptgirl said:

I was about 7 when I heard this song for the first time and I kept wondering what kind of papers the woman had on him-newspapers, school papers, homework? I just couldn't make sense of it, although I figured if it was school papers in the form of math, I would be upset as well.

Yeah I thought the same when I was that young hearing this. Later on though I did find out what it was. [img:$uid]http://l.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/i/mesg/emoticons7/71.gif[/img:$uid]

I'm just hearing what he had to say, HAHAHA no wonder Betty kicked his ass!

This song is from Dimples 1973 debut album It's Finger Lickin' Good. I don't know who the lady in the picture is.

What's even better is the "answer song"..... "She got the papers, but I got the man" by Barbara Mason!!!

GaryMF said:

What's even better is the "answer song"..... "She got the papers, but I got the man" by Barbara Mason!!!

Nah, what was better was Barbara's own answer song to her own answer song:

Hands up for the people who fast forwards this song to 4:29 just to hear Betty Wright's attack!

Timmy84 said:

Hands up for the people who fast forwards this song to 4:29 just to hear Betty Wright's attack!

I've always liked the entire song, and Betty's part is not on the 45. So whoever bought that doesn't even hear it.

MickyDolenz said:

Timmy84 said:

Hands up for the people who fast forwards this song to 4:29 just to hear Betty Wright's attack!

I've always liked the entire song, and Betty's part is not on the 45. So whoever bought that doesn't even hear it.

I don't care. Betty made that song to me.

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Timmy84 said:

MickyDolenz said:

I've always liked the entire song, and Betty's part is not on the 45. So whoever bought that doesn't even hear it.

I don't care. Betty made that song to me.

It's like the 45 of If It Ain't One Thing, It's Another fades out before that bible talk at the end.

MickyDolenz said:

Timmy84 said:

I don't care. Betty made that song to me.

It's like the 45 of If It Ain't One Thing, It's Another fades out before that bible talk at the end.

Yeah I know. I don't know why they did that.

Timmy84 said:

MickyDolenz said:

It's like the 45 of If It Ain't One Thing, It's Another fades out before that bible talk at the end.

Yeah I know. I don't know why they did that.

Well, a 45 couldn't hold much time. That's why some acts like James Brown put the other half on side 2 of the single or the song was only released on a maxi single like Sugarhill Records. But that was mostly done for uptempo songs, ballads generally were just edited but didn't get a side 2 if it was cut. Also some stations didn't play long versions of songs.

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MickyDolenz said:

Timmy84 said:

Yeah I know. I don't know why they did that.

Well, a 45 couldn't hold much time. That's why some acts like James Brown put the other half on side 2 of the single or the song was only released on a maxi single like Sugarhill Records. But that was mostly done for uptempo songs, ballads generally were just edited but didn't get a side 2 if it was cut. Also some stations didn't play long versions of songs.

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That's why I loved the radio because they will play the songs uninterrupted.

In some cases, the version on the 45 is a totally different version than the one on the album and in others the single version is a remix. This was especially common in the 1980's. Some people who heard the single on the radio and went out and bought the album would be upset, because the album mix was not the one that was being played on the radio or that was used in the music video. A few examples of this are No One Is To Blame by Howard Jones, Let's Wait Awhile by Janet Jackson, Freedom by Wham!, and a lot of the singles by the New Edition crew. Prince's Kiss was like this too. On the version on the album, at the end of the song Prince says "kiss" and it goes right into the next song, but on the 45 there's a little guitar riff after he says "kiss" and it fades out. On the 45 of I Would Die 4 U, it ends with the strings instead of going into Baby I'm A Star.

Timmy84 said:

Hands up for the people who fast forwards this song to 4:29 just to hear Betty Wright's attack!

Me.

Her getting all in that ass is the highlight of this song.

ihateonions said:

Timmy84 said:

Hands up for the people who fast forwards this song to 4:29 just to hear Betty Wright's attack!

Me.

Her getting all in that ass is the highlight of this song.

I know that's right.

I used to have this on a cassette of songs I taped off of the radio. I'm just now realizing it's kind of a reply to the other songs "...no Betty's, Barbara's, or Jean's". I don't really pay much attention to lyrics. I don't know who Jean is though. Jean Knight?

MickyDolenz said:

I used to have this on a cassette of songs I taped off of the radio. I'm just now realizing it's kind of a reply to the other songs "...no Betty's, Barbara's, or Jean's". I don't really pay much attention to lyrics. I don't know who Jean is though. Jean Knight?

I definitely think he was referring to Jean Knight.

Timmy84 said:

MickyDolenz said:

I used to have this on a cassette of songs I taped off of the radio. I'm just now realizing it's kind of a reply to the other songs "...no Betty's, Barbara's, or Jean's". I don't really pay much attention to lyrics. I don't know who Jean is though. Jean Knight?

I definitely think he was referring to Jean Knight.

She (or whoever else is singer that is named Jean) must have recorded an answer song. I've always figured that "Betty" was Betty Wright, but I never realized the other two names were referring to anybody. I hadn't heard of Barbara Mason's song before now.

Timmy84 said:

GaryMF said:

What's even better is the "answer song"..... "She got the papers, but I got the man" by Barbara Mason!!!

Nah, what was better was Barbara's own answer song to her own answer song:

True dat! But . . . the 12" to "Another Man" is far superior.

oh wait i think this is the 12" you posted

Timmy84 said:

Hands up for the people who fast forwards this song to 4:29 just to hear Betty Wright's attack!

Please..... Betty's part IS the song!! LOL.

I stll say Barbara's answer kinda buries Betty Plus the music itself is better than Dimples'.

"And that component set? We make love by that EVERY night!"

GaryMF said:

I stll say Barbara's answer kinda buries Betty Plus the music itself is better than Dimples'.

"And that component set? We make love by that EVERY night!"

Oh she a ho.

Betty did get her payback years later.

Betty Wright for life.

You know what's odd? All three of their age differences.

Richard was already 40-ish when he did "She's Got Papers", Betty was only 27, Barbara Mason was 35.

Old heifer stealing Betty's irresponsible man.

I don't give credit to man-stealing hos and pussy-whipped suckers, no sir. Fuck a Jody.

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It appears that Jean Knight also has a song called You Got The Papers (But I Got The Man). But it's a different song because Jean's version says it was written by 'Jean Knight & Isaac Bolden' and Barbara Mason's is credited as self-written. Jean's song is not on Youtube, but it is on this 1981 album:

This is an unrelated 1979 song by Ann Peebles. Dimples song came out in 1981.

Another song by Barbara Mason that was released in 1978.

MickyDolenz said:

It appears that Jean Knight also has a song called You Got The Papers (But I Got The Man). But it's a different song because Jean's version says it was written by 'Jean Knight & Isaac Bolden' and Barbara Mason's is credited as self-written. Jean's song is not on Youtube, but it is on this 1981 album:

This is an unrelated 1979 song by Ann Peebles. Dimples song came out in 1981.

Another song by Barbara Mason that was released in 1978.

It's funny actually that there was all these different songs about someone getting papers on someone. As for Barbara, that girl was a ho. I was so glad when that man she stole TRICKED HER!

"Another man is beating my time..." YOU THINK!?

This is a more recent song. I guess this is the prequel to the others. {The song is not 9 minutes, the person who uploaded it put it up twice, but it's from two different camera angles.}