This slow-burner, with its smouldering brass decorated by guitar licks, is a classic example of the steamy New Orleans hybrid of blues, soul and jazz. A bittersweet ballad of betrayed love written by Al Reed, Danny White’s emotive vocals perfectly articulate the emotion in the lyrics.
White was the label’s biggest success, selling more than 100,000 of this and another tearjerker, Loan Me A Handkerchief, in and around the New Orleans area.
It should have been a huge hit – and surely would have been with better distribution than Frisco ever enjoyed.
In 1964 Danny White was sent to the Royal Studios in Memphis, where he was produced by the upcoming team of Isaac Hayes and David Porter.
Despite some great tunes like Can’t Do Nothing Without You and My Living Doll – both written by Hayes and Porter, and accompanied by the Memphis Horns and the Hi Rhythm Section – White never enjoyed the national success he deserved.