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I saw this beautiful lady perform one summer in the 70's and she had/has? the longest hair of anyone I've ever seen. This song is her most compelling, I believe. ..."maybe some day you will come true..."

 
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Emmy Lou - "Leaving Louisiana in the Broad Daylight"

If she hadn't started running with a travelin' man
If she hadn't started taking those crazy chances
She say, daughter, let me tell you 'bout the travelin' kind
Everywhere he's goin' such a very short time.........

 
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Someone already posted The Rolling Stones cover, but just a few months earlier in 1964 it was recorded by the criminally underappreciated New Orleans legend Irma Thomas.

 
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Plebe said:
Someone already posted The Rolling Stones cover, but just a few months earlier in 1964 it was recorded by the criminally underappreciated New Orleans legend Irma Thomas.

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She is now 80 years old. Lives in new Orleans and still performs. AKA The Soul Queen of New Orleans.
 
Bama fan said:
She is now 80 years old. Lives in new Orleans and still performs. AKA The Soul Queen of New Orleans.
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She's one of those hidden gems that I've always gone out of my way to introduce my friends to.

Here's a really neat (and recent) piece about the history of the song. Originally recorded in '63 by jazz trombonist Kai Winding and his orchestra. Her version, recorded in early 1964, featured additional lyrics and a rather different arrangement; The Stones, later the same year, then covered her version. She would not perform it for many years, until Bonnie Raitt in the '90s nudged her to sing it again.

 
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