Monday, May 1, 2023

Time Is On My Side - Irma Thomas

Time Is On My Side - Irma Thomas
2:52
Wish Someone Would Care, 1964
Written by Jerry Ragovoy (as Norman Meade) and Jimmy Norman

I did not know, or had forgotten, that this song was not a Jagger-Richard original.  It was first recorded as an instrumental by jazz trombonist Kai Winding!  For this version by the Soul Queen of New Orleans, a singer named Jimmy Norman wrote the words.  She belts them out as well as Aretha herself could have done it, and obviously in so doing created a standard, because the Glimmer Twins used her version as a template, though leaving out her impassioned monologue in the middle.

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