[Repeal The 17th]

Frankie Laine-Moonlight Gambler-1956
is in my list of top 989 songs,
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gtwv9eP2hNQ
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You can gamble for match sticks,
you can gamble for gold,
The stakes may be heavy or small,
But if you haven’t gambled for love and lost,
Then you haven’t gambled at all.

They call me a moonlight gambler,
I’ve gambled for love and lost,
When I gamble for love and it isn’t in the cards,
Oh, what heartaches it can cost me.

Win or lose, I’m a moonlight gambler,
And a winner is what I long to be,
So I’ll gamble for love just as long as I live,
Till the day Lady Luck smiles at me.

You can gamble for match sticks,
you can gamble for gold,
The stakes may be heavy or small,
But if you haven’t gambled for love and lost,
Then you haven’t gambled at all.

No, if you haven’t gambled for love in the moonlight,
Then you haven’t gambled at all,
So I’ll gamble for love just as long as I live,
Till the day Lady Luck smiles at me.

[Publius]

ROCKUMENTARY: AUGUST 30, 1966

#69 – Jimmy Ruffin: “What Becomes of the Brokenhearted”

It was Jimmy’s curse that he was always overshadowed by his younger brother David, who went on to sing with the Temptations. Jimmy had this one hit with Motown and spent the rest of his career in the UK scoring a few hits on their charts.

The three-chord opening is a good example of tonal misdirection. You don’t expect it to land in the key of B-flat Major.

Jimmy Ruffin: “What Becomes of the Brokenhearted”