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  • brilliant fun song amazed no one is pointing out the obvious way queen ripped this song off.

    Hope whoever was in charge of johnies career made him millions of that!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • @BCH19821091 What on earth are you writing about? Queen with Freddie Mercury didn't play or write any songs that remotely resemble this wonderful song. Get your facts together before you write things please.

  • played this on an old bush record player and i tell you my brother wasnt happy about it!!

  • My mom sung this to my dad when they was married, he got hella mad..oh well!!! but it was well before my time..tho

  • Classic R&B funk!

  • :D awesome song!

    thank you Blues Brothers to introducing me to epic music :D

  • My sisters drove my Mom crazy playing this song....excellent memories, thanks so much for sharing, it is part of my favorites now.

  • lawd if these young folks knew how to do this! testify johnny testify!!!

  • thanks added to my favs

  • @WE2DREAM .it's my pleasure & thank you,,

  • "Moms" Mabley used this phrase as part of her routine

  • Vietnam 1968-69 BIGGEST drinking song...except it ended "while you are in Vietnam"....Divorces ran about 75% with the young guys. A year of misery in that Green Hell Hole...

  • My uncle use to have my brother and me riding in his Buick Duece and a Quarter while this song played on the radio wide opened. And he had plenty of female friends that we visited often. All their children called him Uncle George, too.

    Uke love his friends! ;-)

  • @bodacious2109 .very cool.

  • A #1 hit for Johnnie Taylor on the Rhythm & Blues charts. It was the 186th #1 R&B song of the Rock Era. It also hit #5 on the Top 40 charts.

  • @mkl62 Cool. I like music chart trivia. I got a couple of Joel Whitburn books.

  • Ok I know the youngsters will be lost w/ this

    (Posted by Youtube Stream for iPhone (yst.me) on behalf of morehouseman601 at twitter)

  • @ystme not at all, loving this great song

  • this song have a meaning to hit i use to wonder why my stepfather use to have this song blasting in his car all the time because he was cheating on my mom.

  • Early post-Alantic Stax, and the first major hit for Johnnie Taylor.

    Produced by Detroit-based Don Davis, who also produced Isaac Hayes's second album (and first big hit), "Hot Buttered Soul".

  • @TheAudivisioner ..it's my pleasure & thanks..

  • i love this! if you're after quality wax, it's gotta be stax!

  • donald dunn ,bass?

  • brilliant !! brings back so many memories - thank you.

  • @freethequeen ,it's my pleasure

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