The tune was written by James Banks, Eddie Marion and Henderson Thigpen, who had beforehand written hits for Little Milton, the Bar-Kays and different Stax Data artists. Based on Thigpen, he and Banks had been brainstorming concepts for songs at Stax Studio (quote:)”attempting to give you…one thing totally different. When individuals get severe, they are saying: ‘Hey, let’s speak man to man’…We thought it could be fascinating to have a tune with anyone developing [with]: ‘Hey, let’s speak girl to girl’.” Thigpen had not too long ago overheard his spouse on the cellphone arguing with a good friend about an concerned couple of their acquaintance, and – with Eddie Marion – Thigpen and Banks accomplished their “Girl to Girl” tune structuring it as a cellphone name from a spouse to her husband’s mistress.
“Girl to Girl” was first supplied to Inez Foxx, then signed to Stax’s Volt label, who turned it down as a result of – in line with Banks – she didn’t need to do the spoken intro, feeling that format may solely work for a male singer. Round this time Shirley Brown was launched to Stax president Jim Stewart by Albert King in whose dwell revue she’d carried out whereas a youngster: Stewart was impressed sufficient by Brown to himself produce her Stax debut recording – Stewart’s first manufacturing activity in two years – of “Girl to Girl” (Stewart co-produced the monitor with Al Jackson Jr.) with Brown reducing her vocal in a single take. Brown would state in a 1975 interview (quote:)”The blokes who wrote [‘Woman to Woman’] sang it via to me and I felt it wanted a rap to start it, so I wrote one off the highest of my head”; nevertheless the tune’s co-writer James Banks has acknowledged that the spoken intro was a part of the tune when it was supplied to Inez Foxx, whose dislike of the “rap” brought about her to show the tune down.
