The Shirelles Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow (1961) 4 K

, 1 US Billboard Hot 100, 1 US Cash Box Top 100, 2 US Billboard R B, 3 New Zealand, 4 UK Singles Chart. . Shirelles lead singer Shirley Alston initially disliked the song, dismissing it as too Country and Western for the 4girl group from Passaic, New Jersey. Their producer Luther Dixon convinced her they could do it in their style, and asked King and Goffin if they could add strings and turned it into an uptempo song, which they did. This was written by the husband and wife songwriting team of Gerry Goffin and Carole King. It s a benignly sexual song with the singer wondering what will happen the day after an encounter with her man. It met with some resistance from radio stations, but not enough to stop it from becoming a huge hit, selling over a million copies. Goffin and King were a husband and wife songwriting team who worked were signed to Don Kirshner s Aldon music, Kirshner assigned them to write a song for the Shirelles as a followup song to Tonight s T