The loser

Derrick Harriott: "The Loser" (Trojan, 196?)

I've been obsessed with this song since first hearing it on the Trojan Rocksteady Box a few years ago.

Partly it's because it's a great, great song but also I couldn't quite put my finger on where he'd cribbed it from-- I recognized bits of Billy Stewart's "I Do Love You" (or is it "Sitting in the Park"? they're too similar) but it took me about two years to figure out that the intro was from the Alan Brandt/Bob Haymes tune "That's All", which is one of the prettiest standards I know.

These are two of my favorite versions of that:


Thee Midniters: "That's All" (Whittier, 196?)



Shirley Scott: "That's All" (Prestige, 1961)