I would love to have an instrumentsl version of this because let's face it...the track is HOT!! The drums are smackin' and the bass is deep and the guitar is cracklin'! Add the strings and horns for icing and the results are golden!
I also wondered as a child why this song sounded more like Motown than Memphis. Don Davis who co produce this song with Al Bell actually played with the FUNK BROTHERS under the name THE BUENA VISTAS or WILLIE TELL and THE OVERTURES.
A much under-appreciated song by Carla Thomas! Should have been a mega hit if it had been promoted properly. This song still sound great some 50 years later. It should have been at least 30 to 60 seconds longer but during that era so many great songs were limited to 3 minutes or less.
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Thans for posting the studio version of this! It's probably my favorite track from Carla Thomas, too. When I was a kid I used to wonder why this song sounded more like Motown than Memphis. I got my answer when I was an adult: I found out the record was produced by Don Davis of Detroit (with Isaac Hayes and David Porter supervising). It may have been recorded at Detroit's United Sound studio where Davis was a fixture at the time. A great record, but not what you would have expected from Stax.
I just heard this on waxstax, I remember this song wayyyyy back in the day. This is a lovely song, has nice meaning... lovely voice, foxy looking lady too.
The Big 6 ( Booket T & The MG's,Issac Hayes and David Porter) may have resented the fact that Don Davis came to Memphis from Detroit and altered the "Stax Sound" significantly but you cannot deny that his contributions made Stax even a bigger force to be reckoned with than it was before. And yes it was recorded at United Sound in Detroit. This recording was the first session Davis recorded for Stax.