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on YouTube: Professional ratings; Review scores ... Rating; Billboard: positive ("Spotlight" pick) [2] "I'm a Fool" is a song written by Tommy Smith and originally ...
Its enduring lament, "I'm a fool to care, when you don't care for me", was recorded by numerous artists over the ensuing 75 years. The Les Paul and Mary Ford version went to No. 6 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in 1954, [ 1 ] and was featured in a popular Southern Comfort commercial in 2013. [ 5 ]
Barry was born in Cut Off, Louisiana.He started recording locally in 1958, and released two singles on Jin Records around 1960. In 1961, the second single he released for Jin, "I'm a Fool to Care" (originally a hit for Les Paul and Mary Ford), was picked up for national distribution by Mercury Records subsidiary Smash Records.
"The Fool" is a song written by Naomi Ford and Lee Hazlewood and performed by Sanford Clark. It reached #5 on the U.S. R&B chart, #7 on the U.S. pop chart, and #14 on the U.S. country chart in 1956. [1] Al Casey played guitar on the record [2] and it was ranked #42 on Billboard magazine's Top 50 singles of 1956. [3]
"The Fool" is a song written by Marla Cannon-Goodman, Gene Ellsworth and Charlie Stefl, and recorded by American country music artist Lee Ann Womack. It was released in May 1997 as the second single from her eponymous debut album .
The song's inspiration was the experience Rea's younger sister Paula had encountered some years previously of being devastated at losing her first boyfriend. [4] Rea wrote "Fool" intending that it be recorded by Al Green. [5] He intended it to be a Memphis blues song, [4] but according to Rea, "It ended up being this huge California thing. It ...
Dylan recorded the song again in April 1969; that version was released in 1973 by Columbia on the Dylan album. On the 1973 Dylan album and several associated Columbia 1973 singles, the song is wrongly credited to "B. Abner" and "LeFevre Sing Pub Co (BMI)". This is a different song with the same title, written by Buford Abner of the Swanee River ...
1951 sheet music cover, Barton Music, New York. Frank Sinatra first recorded the song with the Ray Charles Singers on March 27, 1951, in an arrangement by Axel Stordahl in New York. It was the second song recorded at the sessions that began with "I Whistle a Happy Tune" and ended with "Love Me".