Leading with a track from the duo’s second album, the A-side of this single lets Tina take the lead while Ike provides responses to her lines, with a trim guitar line and drums backing them up, along with a few extra female singers. The B-side is an advance track from their 1963 album Dynamite!, and it shifts to fuller instrumentation and a duet from the Turners. Both tracks move quickly, but the spirit with which they’re performed brings quite a punch to their short runs.
The A-side of this single features Mimms and his backing singers crooning their way through a tale of romantic loss, shifting from the perspective of an outsider to their own situation while looking for a remedy. The B-side, covered and repopularized by Janis Joplin in ‘71, features more plaintive lyrics and more vulnerable emotion, with the sing-speaking delivery of the verses giving things an earnest spin into the peaking cries of the chorus. Very fine on both sides, but the power of the B-side holds firm more than half a century after its initial release.
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