Oh Michael Oh Jesus I'll keep my promise whenĪll songs by Walter Becker and Donald Fagen ©1972 MCA Music Publishing, A Division of Universal Studios, Inc. You know my reputation for playing a good clean game Oh Michael Oh Jesus you know I'm not to blame Looked at my watch and started for the door But you just wanna get drunk tonight and fck someone famous. Retrieved September 4, 2011.Roll out the bones and raise up your pitcherįamiliar faces that ain't smilin' like before Most girls wanna hide the fact that the thrill they chasin. King: 'The Thrill Is Gone' BluesWay (1969) (Single)'. King: 13th Annual Grammy Awards (1970) – Best R&B Vocal Performance, Male 'The Thrill Is Gone' '. Fayetteville, Arkansas: University of Arkansas Press. Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin: Record Research. Benson and Dale Pettite, but are now filed under Hawkins and Rick Darnell.

King Together Again.Live (1976), and Live at San Quentin (1991). Live versions of the song were included on King's albums Live in Cook County Jail (1971), Bobby Bland and B.B. King's version of the song was also placed at number 183 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest songs of all time. Tuning standard Capo 2 Verse 1 Am7 The thrill is gone, the thrill is gone away Dm7 Am7 The thrill is gone, the thrill is gone away Fmaj7 E7 Am7 You done me wrong baby And you're gonna be sorry someday Verse 2 Am7 The thrill is gone, it's gone away from me Dm7 Am7 The thrill is gone, the thrill has gone away from me Fmaj7 E7 Am7 Although I’ll still live on, But so lonely I'll be Verse 3. King's recording earned him a Grammy Award for Best Male R&B Vocal Performance in 1970 and a Grammy Hall of Fame award in 1998. It reached number three in the Billboard Best Selling Soul Singles chart and number 15 in the broader Billboard Hot 100 chart. When BluesWay Records released 'The Thrill Is Gone' as a single in December 1969, it became one of the most successful of King's career and one of his signature songs. The song's polished production and use of strings marked a departure from both the original song and King's previous material. King's version is a slow 12-bar blues notated in the key of B minor in 4/4 time. King recorded his version of 'The Thrill Is Gone' in June 1969 for his album Completely Well, released the same year. His rendition helped make the song a blues standard. In 1970, 'The Thrill Is Gone' became a major hit for B.B. Hawkins's recording of the song reached number six in the Billboard R&B chart in 1951. ' The Thrill Is Gone' is a slow minor-key blues song written by West Coast blues musician Roy Hawkins and Rick Darnell in 1951. 'The Thrill Is Gone' (album version) on YouTube Not to be confused with the 1931 jazz standard.

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