In 1956 this was Ivory Joe Hunters first song to cross over and reach a white audience, and when reissued in 1974 reached  number 12 in the pop charts. Ivory Joe was a singer, a prolific songwriter, and a piano player, he was born Texas in 1914, and his very first recording is on a cylinder for the Library of Congress. Early in his career Joe started his own label, Ivory, on which he had a small hit Blues At Sunrise, in 1942 he moved to the West Coast where he started Pacific Records.  By 1954, when moved to Atlantic records, he had recorded more than a hundred songs. He died in 1974.

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