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"One Mint Julep" is a R&B song, written and composed by Rudy Toombs, that became a 1952 hit for the Clovers. [1] The song has received over 100 cover versions, both with lyrics and as an instrumental.
The tracks "One Mint Julep" (written by Rudy Toombs) [7] and the Ertegun composition "Middle of the Night" (originally released as a 10" vinyl single) [8] were both top ten hits on the R&B chart of May 1952. [9]
In the Encyclopedia of Albums, edited by Paul Du Noyer, the album is described as "The eclectic Charles's only big-band jazzy get-together of the early Sixties"; the track "One Mint Julep" is highlighted as "[seeing] the versatile singer cool and confident enough to let the musicians do the talking, while he played the organ throughout.
Some of Toombs' best known songs are listed below. [3]"Teardrops from My Eyes", a Rhythm and blues song for Ruth Brown, which was a hit for her in 1950 "One Mint Julep", [1] recorded by The Clovers (number 1 R&B in 1951), covered in an instrumental version by Ray Charles (number 1 R&B, Billboard Hot 100 number 8 in 1961)
The song became Phoenix's third top-ten hit on the Billboard Alternative Songs chart, after "1901" and "Lisztomania". The song's cover includes a mint julep, which is said in one of the song's lines, "mint julep testosterone". Frontman Thomas Mars told Spin magazine the lyrics to "Trying to Be Cool" mainly analyse "the beauty of the fake".
That means the Kentucky Derby (this Saturday) and the Mint Julep--the rare convergence of sports and an extremely elegant libation. The drink is so refreshing, so potent that you might want to ...
The O.G. mint julep was likely made with cognac or brandy, but once France’s cognac trade slowed in the mid-1800s due to the phylloxera epidemic (aka when a particular aphid insect destroyed a ...
The song describes a man seeking help to find love. He enlists the help of a Romani person who determines, by means of palmistry, that he needs "love potion number nine".". The potion, an aphrodisiac, causes him to fall in love with everything he sees, kissing whatever is in front of him, eventually kissing a policeman on the street corner, who reacts by breaking his bottle of love pot