Well, i've been across to the other side, i've shown you ev'rything, i got nothing to hide. The song is considered a standard with jazz and blues artists, with recordings by such artists as the Count Basie Orchestra, Louis Jordan And His Tympany Five, Sidney Bechet, Eddie Condon, Julia Lee, and Lead Belly. "Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out" was one of the first songs that Eric Clapton learned to play in the finger-picking acoustic-guitar style of Big Bill Broonzy when Clapton was attracted to London's folk-music scene being an art student in the early 1960s. John Lennon Lyrics. I Got the Blues #13. He is considered to be one of the pioneers and founders of soul music. Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out. Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out Sam Cooke Buy This Song. Spent all my money, I just did not care. The New York stock market had reached an all-time high less than two weeks earlier, only to go into its biggest decline two weeks later in the Wall Street Crash of 1929, which signaled the beginning of the ten-year Great Depression. My friends say I should act my age ... Il I love this song, because it sais, you can be act as young as you want and be as old as you are, and it brings out … In 1960, a version by Nina Simone reached number 23 in the Billboard R&B chart as well as number 93 in the Hot 100 pop chart. Dinah's Blues #22. Am I Blue #18. Once I lived the life of a millionaire. Nobody wants you when you're down, I mean Nobody wants you when you’re down Lord, the other day I asked a man for my rent He told me, boy, the money he had spent And people who are out (not successful) are frequently needy in a literal sense. Nobody Knows You When Youre Down And Out – Scrapper Blackwell When you're down and out. Therefore, everyone likes you, or nobody likes you. Instead, I like to think about it as a simple nudge to re-direct. 2,243 23. more tracks from the album Presenting the Best of Blues #4. The lyrics sung in the popular 1929 recording by Bessie Smith are told from the point of view of somebody who was once wealthy during the Prohibition era, reflect on the fleeting nature of material wealth and the friendships that come and go with it. ‘Nobody Knows You When You’re Down And Out’ was composed in 1923 by Jimmy Cox and the first recorded version was by Bobby Leecan that was released sometime around June 1927. In 1992, Eric Clapton recorded an acoustic version for the MTV Unplugged series. [16] Whitlock also noted that Clapton played through a Fender Champ guitar amplifier (a five-watt practice amp), while Allman used a Fender Twin. [5], The second known recording of the song was on January 11, 1929 by an obscure vocal quartet, the Aunt Jemima Quality Four, first to use the now familiar title, "Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out". 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