A Little Bit Of Soap

Album

Single

Label

Laurie records

Genre

Doo-Wop

Composer(s)

Bert Russell (Bert Berns)

Entered Chart

Jul 31, 1961

Peak Date

Sep 18, 1961

Released

Unknown

Recorded

Unknown

Catalog #

Laurie 3098

B-Side

The Way You Look Tonight

The Laurie label from New York wanted something like The Drifters and found the soundalike Jarmels, from Richmond, Virginia. Bert Berns, who later worked with Van Morrison and other greats, wrote "A Little Bit Of Soap" for the group, which became a one hit wonder. >>

A little bit of soap will wash away your lipstick on my face
But a little bit of soap will never never never ever erase
The pain in my heart and my eyes as I go through the lonely years
A little bit of soap will never wash away my tears

A little bit of soap will wash away your powder from my chin
A little bit of soap will never never never ever begin
To take away the hurt that I feel as I go through the lonely years
A little bit of soap will never wash away my tears

Have you heard when love begins to die it leaves someone to cry night and
Day?
Like a bird, you left your robin's nest and-a just like all the rest you flew away

A little bit of soap will take away your perfume eventually
But a little bit of soap will never wash away the memory
Of your name in the night that I call through the lonely years
A little bit of soap will never wash away my tears

I'll never lose the memory of your name in the night that I call through the lonely years
A little bit of soap will never wash away my tears
A little bit of soap-a will never wash away my tears
It's gonna never, never, never, uh-huh, wash away my tears