Incidentally, this YouTube is quite the little zoo these days. It just took me five minutes to find the original version of this classic cut.
I'm just writing up a post on the whole Pagliacci thing, and this song came to mind. We all do it, don't we?
This song has a better story than most. Smoky wrote it, and the guys were in the studio working on it. They weren't happy with the way it was coming out. Stevie Wonder was recording down the hall, and at one point he stopped in to say hello. "How's it going?" They said, well, it could be better. Stevie said let's hear what you've got. He fooled around with it briefly and came up with the whole hook, kit and kaboodle, they cut it right there, and the rest is history.
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