Artist: Phil Phillips & The Twilights
Author: George Khoury/John Baptiste
Label: Khoury's
Year: 1959
N°1 on all national charts US, except Billboard. Black singer from Lake Charles, LA; real name: John Phillip Baptiste (coauthor) accompanied by the Cupcakes of Cookie & The Cupcakes fame (see: Mathilda) and who also worked for George Khoury (under different names). Production: Eddie Shuler, recorded in his makeshift Lake Charles studio but released on the other coauthor's label with headquarters around the corner. National distribution handled by Mercury, with success: some 20 million records sold.
Covers:
Cookie & The Cupcakes [for the second time]
Kevin Coyne [on cd version Marjorie Razorblade]
U-Roy [as Do You Remember]
David Essex [in film Silver Dream Racer]
Honeydrippers [group with Robert Plant, Jimmy Page, Jeff Beck and Nile Rodgers; top 3 US]
Tom Waits [in film Sea Of Love]
Dave [as Toujours le mème bleu]
Chris Evans [als Toujours ainsi]
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Arnold Rypens
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