YOU KEEP HER.


Song is about recording artist Bea Ford, who was once Joe Tex wife.
[Edited 2/9/10 19:34pm]

Cool track.
They also wrote a song together that JB recorded (Baby You're Right)

I guess this is also the perfect opportunity to re-tell this tale:

The gunfight

Not long after his groundbreaking Live At The Apollo album was released in 1963, James Brown returned to Macon to play a "homecoming show" at the City Auditorium on a bill with Joe Tex. Two people in attendance were Newton Collier, who would go on to perform in Sam & Dave's band, and a local white singer named Wayne Cochran. Afterward, James Brown went out to Club 15 in east Macon where Johnny Jenkins and the Pinetoppers were performing. In addition to Jenkins, the band included Otis Redding.

Jessie Hancock: When a black band would play at the City Auditorium, they had a string upstairs on the balcony about middle ways down. Whites would sit on one side upstairs, and blacks would sit on the other. And no whites would come downstairs. But, man, them white people would be jumping upstairs! They'd be dancing! I didn't know white people could dance like that.

Newt Collier: Joe Tex could imitate anybody he wanted to. You know how James came out with the cape? Joe had one made up out of a raggedy blanket, with holes all in it. You know how James would break down and fall on his knees? Joe fell on his knees, and all of a sudden, he grabbed his back. He had the cape on and got all tangled up in it, and he was fighting to get out, singing, "Please, please, please, get me out of this cape." He just made a mockery of James. Here it was, James' homecoming show, and James didn't appreciate this at all. He went out to Club 15 after the show, and Joe Tex was out there. And James took a couple of shotguns, and I think six people got shot. James did most of the shooting, and Joe was running back behind the trees and bushes. So that was the end of the Joe Tex/James Brown revue.

Charles Davis: I was the last one to know what was happening. I'm playing drums with my eyes closed and getting down. The crowd was noisy, and I couldn't hear the shooting. By the time I figured out what had happened, everybody was on the floor, and I'm up there on the stage by myself.

Wayne Cochran: James and somebody else was in there, shooting across the room at each other and reloading. Didn't neither one of them hit the other. James ran outside, and I saw his tour bus pull out of the parking lot with him behind the wheel.

Johnny Jenkins: Seven people got shot. They were reloading and coming back in. Me and Otis, we were hiding behind a piano. A guy went around later, and I think he gave each one of the injured $100 apiece not to carry it no further. And that just quieted it down.

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Joe Tex actually wrote the track "Baby, You're Right" on his own. He recorded a version and released it as a single in 1960 and didn't do anything. James Brown liked it, asked Joe for it, Joe gave it too him (they were friends at this time, they were actually on the same label for years at King/Federal) and he switched it up a little hence his name on the writing credits. His version was released in 1961 and I believe charted # 2 black / #41 pop or something like that.

LittleBLUECorvette said:

Aah, kinda like a Beyonce type thing.


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theAudience said:

No way, this is JB now B. I think his version, he changed some of the lyrics, the tempo and arrangements, made it more bluesier.

LittleBLUECorvette said:

Just kidding.


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