A Lover's Question

1958

A Lover 's Question is a rhythm-and - blues song from 1958, which was a hit for Clyde McPhatter. Have written the song Brook Benton and Jimmy T. Williams.

The song was McPhatters first Top 10 hit, after he left The Drifters. Benton sang the demo version of the song and the song producer Clyde Otis, she played Jerry Wexler and Ahmet Ertegun before that loved the song and released him at Atlantic Records. On the B - side of the single is I Can not Stand Up Alone.

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In the song the singer presents various issues that drive a lover. If it is true, ( I'd like to know When she's not with me, if she 's still true to me), she feels the same ( I'd like to know when we're kissing, does she feel just what I feel ) also he would like to know where the answer is to be found (Oh, tell me where, the answer lies, is it in her kiss or in her eyes ).

Chart success

The song reached number six on the Billboard Hot 100 charts and in the rhythm-and - blues charts of Billboard number one for a week. The cover of country singer Del Reeves, in 1970, reached # 14 on the Billboard Country Songs; by Jacky Ward 1978 number three on the same chart.

Other cover versions

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