YOU TALK TOO MUCH

Created on 24/06/2008
Latest update on 03/02/2015

Artist: Joe Jones
Author: Joe Jones/Reggie Hall
Label: Ric
Year: 1959

New Orleans piano player. Made his first steps in show business as B.B. King's valet. Coauthor Reggie Hall was Fats Domino's brother-in-law. Fats declined the offer to cut it first. This was the ideal musical illustration any time a radio announcer had comments on Fidel Castro's long speeches.

Covers:

1960:

Joe Jones [hit version on Roulette]

1960:

Frankie Ford [benefitting of the legal dispute that kept both Joe Jones versions at bay for a while; You Talk To Much earned him a bigger paycheck than Sea Cruise]

1960:

Valerie Carr [answer song as I Talked Too Much]

1960:

Max Woiski Jr. [as Je Praat Te Veel]

1960:

Richard Anthony [as Tu parles trop]

1961:

Chaussettes Noires [idem]

1975:

Spooky & Sue

1975:

James & Bobby Purify

1976:

Ben Sidran

1980:

Otis Watkins [alias Geraint Watkins]

Joe Jones first recorded this in a fast version for Roulette (see: California Sun), but they shelved it, until they heard the more relaxed Ric version, arranged by Harold Battiste. While Joe was still under contract with Roulette, the Ric version was forced out of the market, so the new recorded slower Roulette version became the hit. That's when Ric released an answer song I Don't Talk Too Much on Martha Nelson, re-answered by Joe (as One Big Mouth). Much later Joe became a militant advocate for fellow R&B acts in their struggle to regain their rights on song material they'd written.

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