Ha!Ha! It’s April Fools Day, so go with one of the coolest rockabilly songs ever, from the first era of Top 40: Sanford Clark’s “The Fool,” from 1956.
Clark struck gold with this one; it was a Pop hit and then crossed over to Country and R&B.
“The Fool” is a great song that has everything a listener could want or need: heartbreak, lament, and human idiocy. All this in under 21/2 minutes!
A classic like this has legs. “The Fool” was featured in “Lipstick On Your Collar” an early 90’s TV mini-series in England,
where they love early American rock n’ roll, which you can tell, because the title of the series was an early Connie Francis hit.
BTW: Clark wasn’t a one hit wonder, but his follow-ups never got close to the magic of “The Fool” and eventually he left the music business. He’s 80 years old.
Keith Richards’ 2010 autobiography, “Life, ” referenced Clark’s 1959 “Son of a Gun” as one of the first songs he learned and performed prior to forming the Rolling Stones.