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"Me and Mrs. Jones" is a 1972 soul song written by Kenny Gamble, Leon Huff, and Cary Gilbert, and originally recorded by Billy Paul. It describes an extramarital affair between a man and his lover, Mrs. Jones. In the song, the two meet in secret "every day at the same cafe", at 6:30, where they hold hands and talk.
"I feel honored that my song Mr. Jones was part of the inspiration for the name 'Generation Jones'." [ 9 ] The song incorporates two different keys, as demonstrated by verses being written in A minor with a chord structure of Am-F-Dm-G-Am-F-G before transitioning into C major in the chorus and a new chord sequence of C-F-G.
"Me and Mrs. Jones" was a No. 1 hit for the last three weeks of 1972, selling two million copies (platinum single status), and went on to win Paul a Grammy Award. The gold album and platinum single broke the artist on world charts, including the United Kingdom, where the single entered the Top 20 of the UK Singles Chart , reaching No. 12 in ...
In 1965, a year after his first single, "Chills and Fever" failed to gain momentum, "Welshman Tom Jones" snapped, clapped and wound his hips in crisp black and white on the Ed Sullivan Show ...
Back to Black is the second and final studio album by English singer-songwriter Amy Winehouse, released on 27 October 2006 by Island Records.Winehouse predominantly based the album on her tumultuous relationship with then-ex-boyfriend and future husband Blake Fielder-Civil, who temporarily left her to pursue his previous ex-girlfriend.
Me and Mrs. Jones is an album by American pop singer Johnny Mathis that was released in January 1973 by Columbia Records. While it does cover several big chart hits of the day like his last album, Song Sung Blue , did, it also includes songs that didn't make the US Top 40 ("Remember", "You're a Lady") or had never charted (" Happy ", "I Was ...
Read the full lyrics to 'Regret Me' by Daisy Jones & the Six, compared to Taylor Jenkins Reid’s original lyrics.
Naked is the eighth and final studio album by American rock band Talking Heads, released on March 15, 1988, by Sire Records.Following the more straightforward new wave and pop rock sound on Little Creatures (1985) and True Stories (1986), Naked marked a return to the worldbeat stylings of both Remain in Light (1980) and Speaking in Tongues (1983), blending elements of Afrobeat, Latin funk, and ...