"People Say" is a hit single written by the Jeff Barry and Ellie Greenwich songwriting team and made popular by the American pop girl group The Dixie Cups.
It was originally released in July 1964 on the Red Bird Records label.
[1] Sung by Barbara Ann Hawkins, Rosa Lee Hawkins, and Joan Marie Johnson, it was the second hit collaboration between the Dixie Cups and the Barry-Greenwich team, with the first being their breakthrough hit "Chapel of Love".
[2] Produced by Jerry Leiber, Mike Stoller, Ellie Greenwich and Jeff Barry,[3] the single was a hit peaking at number 12 on the Billboard Hot 100 Chart.
[6] It was the second single taken from the Dixie Cups' debut studio album Chapel of Love, issued on Red Bird Records in August 1964.