After my parents, who had been trying to have children for 13 years, adopted me in 1956, my mom used to hold me in her arms while this song was playing on an 45, dance around the living room, and sing it to me until I was about 6, maybe 7, years old! And, yes, I was a mama's boy until the day she died almost 9 years ago at age 87. Thanks for sharing it!
I was 16 and Ivory Joe Hunter was a real heartthrob... every time I played this, I can still hear my parents..."Ginger, turn that mess down!" I would, for a minute, then turn it up again. I'm glad I was a '50s/60s kid. We had the most soulful music ever!
Met her in '64. We hung around in grade grade school thru' high school. In '71 when she was 15, and I was 17 we broke up. I left town, and we lost touch of each other. I got married twice. She had gotten married I was told. In 2013 we met up again, and found we were both single. Forty two years later we're together again. This song is for her.
This is one of the greatest songs ever recorded... I loved it in 1950 and I'm 84 years old and I still love it... It transports me back to when I was young and handsome, and everybody wanted a piece of me... oh those were the days
Ivory Joe would be 100 today! Dick Clark gave him the gold record award to Ivory for this recording on Bandstand-back when it was good and in Philadelphia. No one could quite tickle the ivories the way he did. A 78 or 45 was not needed-one just KNEW! Wha ta great musician. And a great pioneer in the early days of R&B!
