TELL THE TRUTH

Created on 28/11/2001
Latest update on 05/08/2025

Artist: Five Royales
Author: Lowman Pauling
Label: King
Year: 1958

B-side of Double Or Nothing. Lowman's guitar playing strongly influenced Steve Cropper. Tell The Truth cut by Clapton on the Layla album is a Bobby Whitlock song (see there).

Covers:

1959:

Ray Charles [during the What'd I Say session; came out at the end of 1960 after he had left Atlantic]

1965:

Ike & Tina Turner

1965:

Walker Brothers

1967:

Otis Redding [posthumously on LP Tell The Truth in '70]

1983:

Nighthawks

Contact


If you noticed blunt omissions, mis-interpretations or even out-and-out errors,
please let me know:

Arnold Rypens
Rozenlaan 65
B-2840 Reet (Rumst)
Belgium

info@originals.be

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