Take that Look Off Your Face - Wikipedia Take that Look Off Your Face `` Take That Look Off Your Face '' Single by Marti Webb from the album Tell Me on a Sunday B - side `` Sheldon Bloom '' Released January 1980 Format 7 '' single Recorded 1979 Genre Pop, MOR, Theatrical Length 3 : 27 Label Polydor Songwriter ( s ) Andrew Lloyd Webber, Don Black Producer ( s ) Andrew Lloyd Webber Marti Webb singles chronology `` D - Darling '' ( 1973 ) `` Take That Look Off Your Face '' ( 1980 ) `` Tell Me on a Sunday '' ( 1980 ) `` D - Darling '' ( 1973 ) `` Take That Look Off Your Face '' ( 1980 ) `` Tell Me on a Sunday '' ( 1980 ) `` Take That Look Off Your Face '' is the title of a hit song by musical theatre composer Andrew Lloyd Webber. Collaborating with lyricist Don Black, it was written for the song cycle show Tell Me on a Sunday in 1978. It was sung and released by Marti Webb in 1980, and became a No. 3 hit in the UK charts. The song was also popular in Ireland, and spent six weeks at number one. Later, Tell Me on a Sunday was combined with another Lloyd Webber work, Variations, to form an entire new show, Song and Dance. The song is about a woman being told of her boyfriend 's infidelity. The woman denies this initially, before rebuking her newsbearer ( a girlfriend ) with the revelation that she `` knew before '' and had done for some time. She also spends much of the song criticising her friend for rushing to break the `` bad news '' to her. Despite having been written during the creative process for Tell Me on a Sunday, the song was n't recorded during the album 's principal sessions. Black reminded Lloyd Webber that they had missed a track, then entitled `` You Must Be Mistaken ''. John Mole, the bass guitar player, improvised a part reminiscent of the arrangement style of Phil Spector, inspiring the rest of the orchestration. The track was recorded in one take, apart from a double tracking of the orchestra. A briefer 3 : 02 edit of the song is included on the album, however, a longer 3 : 29 version remixed with greater dynamic range compression was released as the single. Track listing Side A : `` Take That Look Off Your Face '' Side B : `` Sheldon Bloom '' Revisions The lyrics were substantially rewritten by Richard Maltby, Jr for the original Broadway production of Song and Dance. The British productions of the show have always used the lyrics written by Black. Black himself amended the line, `` He 's doing some deal up in Baltimore now '' after realising that Baltimore is south of New York. In subsequent versions, the song 's protagonist is said to be `` down '' in Baltimore. For the 2003 production of Tell Me on a Sunday, the storyline instead placed the action in England prior to an emigration to New York, requiring some further revision of the lyrics to reference London instead. References This 1970s song - related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. Retrieved from `` https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Take_That_Look_Off_Your_Face&oldid=840686528 '' Categories : Songs from musicals Songs with music by Andrew Lloyd Webber Songs with lyrics by Don Black ( lyricist ) 1978 songs 1980 singles 1970s song stubs Hidden categories : Articles with hAudio microformats All articles with unsourced statements Articles with unsourced statements from May 2018 All stub articles Talk About Wikipedia Add links This page was last edited on 11 May 2018, at 13 : 54. About Wikipedia

Question: who sang take that look off your face
Answer: Marti Webb