Just Your Fool
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| Single by Buddy Johnson and His Orchestra | |
| B-side | "A-12" |
| Released | 1954 |
| Format | 10" 78 rpm record |
| Recorded | New York City 1953 |
| Genre | Rhythm and blues |
| Length | 2:49 |
| Label | Mercury (cat. no. 70251) |
| Songwriter(s) | Buddy Johnson |
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| Single by Cyndi Lauper | ||||
| Released | May 18, 2010 | |||
| Format | Digital Downloads | |||
| Recorded | March 2010 in Electraphonic Studios, Memphis | |||
| Genre | Rhythm and blues | |||
| Length | 3:35 | |||
| Label | Downtown Records | |||
| Songwriter(s) | Buddy Johnson | |||
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| Single by The Rolling Stones | ||||
| from the album Blue & Lonesome | ||||
| Released | 6 October 2016 | |||
| Recorded | 3-16 December 2015, April 2016 | |||
| Genre | Rhythm and blues | |||
| Length | 2:16 | |||
| Label | Polydor | |||
| Songwriter(s) | Buddy Johnson | |||
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"Just Your Fool" (or "I'm Just Your Fool" as it was first titled) is a rhythm and blues-style song written and recorded by American jazz and jump blues bandleader/pianist Buddy Johnson and His Orchestra in 1953. Called an "R&B anthem", the song features a big-band arrangement and his sister Ella Johnson on vocals—her "delicate and deceptively sweet phrasing was ideally suited to ballads such as this". "I'm Just Your Fool" became a Billboard R&B chart record hit, reaching number six in 1954.
Little Walter recorded a Chicago blues adaptation of the song using the title "Just Your Fool". It was recorded in December 1960 in Chicago, with Walter (vocal and blues harp) and backing by Otis Spann (piano), Fred Robinson and Luther Tucker (guitars), Willie Dixon and/or Jimmie Lee Robinson (bass), and Fred Below or George Hunter (drums). "Just Your Fool" was not released until 1962 by Checker Records (catalogue number 1013). Although he used lyrics and an eight-bar blues arrangement similar to Buddy Johnson, the song is credited to Little Walter, also known as Walter Jacobs.
In 2010, American singer Cyndi Lauper recorded "Just Your Fool" for her album Memphis Blues. It features her vocals with harmonica by Charlie Musselwhite. The song was released as a single and became a record chart hit. She performed it live with Musselwhite on the third-season finale of the Celebrity Apprentice reality game show.
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