I’m your puppet
which reached number six in the US Billboard Hot 100 chart and in a re-recorded version number 12 in the UK Singles Chart (in May 1976), and “Let Love Come Between Us” in 1967, which reached number 23 in the US. The original “Bobby Purify” (Robert Lee Dickey) was replaced by a second “Bobby Purify” (Ben Moore) in the 1970s.
The vocal duo of James Lee Purify (May 12, 1944, Pensacola, Florida, – January 22, 2021, Pensacola)[1] and his cousin Robert Lee Dickey (September 2, 1939, Tallahassee, Florida, – December 29, 2011, Tallahassee)[2] formed in 1965. Dickey had previously worked as a guitarist with the Dothan Sextet.[3] The duo were signed by Don Schroeder to Bell Records in 1966, with Dickey taking his cousin’s surname as a stage name.[3] They had immediate success with “I’m Your Puppet”, written by Spooner Oldham and Dan Penn and produced by Penn at the FAME Studios in Muscle Shoals, Alabama.[4] The record, released in September 1966, spent 14 weeks on the US chart and sold an estimated one million copies
