Each and Every One
The debut single, a bossa nova rhythm under a lyric that was widely mistaken for a love song.
Everything But The Girl, from Eden (1984)
- Written by
- Ben Watt, Tracey Thorn
- Released
- 1984
- Length
- 2:45
- Album
- Eden
"Each and Every One" was the only single from Eden and reached number 28 in the UK in May 1984. Its B-sides were "Laugh You Out the House", written by Thorn, and "Never Could Have Been Worse", written by Watt. Watt plays guitar and piano and wrote the arrangements, with Chucho Merchan on bass, Charles Hayward on drums, Bosco De Oliveira on percussion, and Dick Pearce, Nigel Nash and Pete King on flugelhorn, tenor and alto saxophone.
The song has often been read as a love song. Thorn wrote in 2016 that it answered the patronizing tone male writers took about her earlier all-female group Marine Girls in the British music press. On 8 Days a Week on BBC2 in May 1984, Tony Blackburn said he liked the bossa nova rhythm, calling it an old sound come back again. Morrissey did not like the single, though he liked about half the album, and George Michael said he liked it. A live recording of the song appears on the 2012 deluxe reissue of Amplified Heart.
More songs by Everything But The Girl
I Don't Want to Talk About It, Missing, Walking Wounded, Wrong
Sources
- Each and Every One, Wikipedia
- Eden (Everything but the Girl album), Wikipedia
- Amplified Heart, Wikipedia