Release Me

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8 years ago

ryan comiskey

I heard this on NPR randomly and it is still one of my favorite songs. Seriously a religious experience when ever I listen to it.

9 years ago

Daniel Gunter

This is my favorite version of this great song. Ray Charles was not the only African-American artist who could do a great, soulful turn on a country song!

9 years ago

Stanley Terrell

Taking a few steps back to this classic version of a Nashville song with a decidedly blues spin on it. A powerful voice.

9 years ago

MrJamieMurph4141969

Really, some of the lyrics in this song-"to live together is a sin," "found someone new, whose lips are warm, while yours are cold," and above all,"I don't love you anymore," again, pretty much a description of Patsy Cline's marriage to Charlie Dick, by 1962.

9 years ago

MrJamieMurph4141969

It JUST SO HAPPENS, that this song was written around the same time Patsy Cline's famous song,"Sweet Dreams," was released(in late 1962), AND, it ALSO just so happens, this song has much the feeling of how Patsy would have been feeling at the time, about being Charlie's(second husband, Charlie Dick,and the father of her two kids, Julie and Randy),wife, any longer--the movie of the title must be PRETTY MUCH true to life, the way how, in late 1962, when he got out of prison(for beating her terribly), and begged her to give him one more chance(DESPERATELY!)and she came right out and told him no, well, seems she might as well have sung this song, as well as "Sweet Dreams." Plus, this song was even recorded in the deep South(not where Patsy and Charlie would have been living, but close enough, though), PURE COINCIDENCE, that this came out around the same time, as "Sweet Dreams," in fall 1962.

9 years ago

Barbara

I wish I had committed that sin: living together_*___* I refused to divorce someone I loved and live with him. I divorced him and lived alone. Which one was the sin in theend? I don't know; what I do know, it still hurts.

10 years ago

Jessie Johnson

Two versions were made of this song. A Cajun country rendition and a blues rendition. The Cajun is fine but without much life. The blues form has so much life and spirit in it you can't stop listening to it. Heartbreaking beauty with incredible warmth. A woman's voice can melt a man and a man's voice can melt a woman. Evolution knows what its' doing. Everything else is just bullshit. The beauty of this song.

10 years ago

Rit Dams

prachtig, the good old days , love them

10 years ago

Carolyn Ekuka

Substance is a real Bitch because you start and it is a real Bitch to shake. Only the experience would perceive what I am saying . Everyday you plan to shake and this become a vicious habit. If you can abrupt quit Cold Turkey as we would say in the 70's then you are pretty good on shaking habits.

10 years ago

Howard Rose

Here's Esther Phillips with "Release Me". I guess she was grown up at the time because the Little was dropped from her name. This is perhaps the most soulful rendition of the versions of this song and no doubt topped the Rhythm and Blues charts back in 1962. It certainly made the Top 10 on the AM stations in our area at the time. Otherwise, I doubt that I ever would have heard it.

10 years ago