"Gigolo" is a dance single written and produced by Fonce and Larry Mizell and released by R&B singer Mary Wells on the Epic Records label.
It was the former Motown star's first single with the CBS-operated label and brought Wells brief renewed success on the Billboard chart.
By 1974, however, after the Bobby Womack-produced "If You Can't Give Her Love" single flopped on Reprise, Wells reluctantly retired to raise her four children that she had with second husband, musician Cecil Womack.
The narrator contends she knew that her lover "wasn't going to stay" but assures that the man was "such a gentleman" and trying to explain her affection saying "even Cinderella had her gigolo".
[2] Though the song wasn't a bigger hit as it was initially promoted to be, it motivated Wells to return to performing and recording full-time as she would until she was diagnosed with larynx cancer in 1990.