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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.
Olympic athlete Marion Jones was featured in the Nike television commercial that used Billy Paul's "Me and Mrs. Jones" song without his consent. In 2000, Nike began airing a commercial featuring track and field star Marion Jones – the face of Team USA for the 2000 Summer Olympics , [ 29 ] winning five medals, which were all later stripped ...
It's amongst his best too, for it also includes the superb mid-tempo Philly roller Brown Baby, a tribute to the kids who took part in the civil rights marches, the eight-minute epic I'm Just A Prisoner, a Gamble-Sigler-Hurtt song that Billy confesses reminded him of a stretch behind bars his step-dad did, and the funky follow-up to Mrs Jones ...
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 ...
The song is written by band members David Bryson and Adam Duritz, and produced by T-Bone Burnett. It became the band's first radio hit and has been described as their breakout single. [5] "Mr. Jones" reached number five on the US Billboard Hot 100 Airplay charts. Internationally, the song peaked at number one in Canada and number seven in France.
Through the 1970s, the group continued to have successful songs, including the Top 10 Pop, number 1 R&B hit, "In the Rain" in 1972, "Hey You! Get Off My Mountain" (number 5 R&B), "Me and Mrs Jones" (number 4 R&B), originally recorded by Billy Paul three years earlier, "Be My Girl" (number 3 R&B), and "Shake It Well" (number 4 R&B). [7] "In the ...
An answer to the song, titled, "Mrs. Jones, Your Son Gives Up Too Easy," was released on the Recording Industries (RIC) label as a single in 1965, performed by a group named Lynn and the Mersey Maids. 1965 also saw the release of "Mrs. Schwartz, You've Got An Ugly Daughter" by Marty And The Monks on Era Records.
Time for Love is the fifth studio album by American singer Freddie Jackson.It was released by Capitol Records on August 3, 1992, in the United States. The album includes the singles "Me and Mrs. Jones", "Can We Try" and the album's opener "I Could Use a Little Love Right Now".