Esther Phillips - If I Loved You
Time and again I would try to say
All I'd want you to know
And if I loved you
Words wouldn't come in an easy way
Round in circles I'd go
Longing to tell you
But so afraid and shy
I'd let my golden chances
I'd let 'em walk on, walk on, walk on by
Soon you'd leave me
Off you would go in the mist of the day
Never, ever to know
How I loved you
If I
You don't know how I'd love you if I loved you
Gimme gimme gimme a chance to lay down and make love to you
How I'd love you
If I, if I, if I, if I loved you, yeah
I'd love you if I loved you
Oh, I'd walk a mile just to love you, baby
You don't know what you're missin'
I wanna love you
I said now when I love you
Don't wait too long, don't wait too long
Well if you don't do it, you know somebody else will
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Hello, walls - (hello) (hello) How'd things go for you today Don't you miss her Since she up and walked a way And I'll bet you dread to spend Another lonely night
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Biography
At age fourteen, she won an amateur talent contest in 1949 at the Barrelhouse Club owned by Johnny Otis. Otis was so impressed he added her to his traveling revue, the California Rhythm and Blues Caravan, billed as ‘Little Esther Phillips’.
Her first hit record was “Double Crossing Blues” (#1 R&B), recorded in 1950 for Savoy Records. She had another two #1 plus four top 10 hits in 1950. Few artists, R&B or otherwise, have ever enjoyed such success in their debut year.
By the mid-50ies she was ill due to drug abuse. In 1962 Phillips got well enough to launch a comeback. She recorded a country tune, “Release Me,” with producer Bob Gans. This went to number 1 on R&B listings. Her cover of The Beatles' song “And I Love Him” nearly made the R&B Top Ten in 1965 and The Beatles flew her to the UK for her first overseas performances.
During the 1970’s she scored an international hit with “What A Difference A Day Made”. Phillips died in 1984, at the age of 48 from liver and kidney failure.