Just a Gigolo/I Ain't Got Nobody - David Lee Roth / Louis Prima (cover-live by Bill Sharkey)

Just a Gigolo/I Ain't Got Nobody (David Lee Roth, 1985; Louis Prima, 1956). Live cover performance by Bill Sharkey, Home Studio, Hawaii Kai, HI. 2022-07-15. "Keeping the Oldies & Classics Alive"

"Just a Gigolo/I Ain't Got Nobody," written by Irving Caesar, Leonello Casucci, Roger Graham and Spencer Williams, was David Lee Roth's second solo release, which rose to the no. 11 position on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in 1985 (Whitburn, 2013). "Just a Gigolo" was a hit for Ted Lewis in 1931 rising to the no. 1 position on the charts, followed by Ben Bernie the same year hitting the no. 3 position, followed by crooner Bing Crosby in 1931, in fact, it was Crosby's very first release; it rose to no. 12 on the charts, and then Leo Reisman the same year hitting the no. 15 position (Whitburn, 1986). Marion Harris was the first to record the song "I Ain't Go Nobody" in 1917, and her version hit the no. 5 position on the charts (Whitburn, 1986). However, in 1956, Louie Prima brought the two songs together and recorded the medley for his album "The Wildest!" as the opening track (allmusic, 2022).

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Lyrics:

I'm just a gigolo and ev'rywhere I go
People know the bar I'm playing
Pay for every dance selling each romance
Ooh, I could say

There would come a day
When news will pass away
What could they say about me

When the end comes I know
There were just the gigolos
Right, 'cause I'm without me

I'm just a gigolo everywhere I go
People know the part it's playing
Pay for every dance selling each romance
Ooh, I could say

There would come a day
When news will pass away
What could they say about me

When the end comes I know
There were just the gigolos
Right, 'cause I'm without me

'Cause I ain't got nobody
Nobody cares for me, nobody
Nobody cares for me

I'm so sad and lonely
Sad and lonely, sad and lonely
Won't some sweet mama come
And take a chance with me
'Cause I ain't so bad

Sad and lonesome all of the time
Even on the beat, on the, on the beat
I ain't got nobody
Nobody cares for me, nobody, nobody

I, I, I, ain't got nobody
Nobody, nobody cares for me
Nobody, nobody

I'm so sad and lonely, sad and lonely
Won't some sweet mama come
And take a chance with me
'Cause I ain't so bad

Really want that soul
Little loving soul all of the time
Even on the beat, cherry, cherry on the beat
Need a long tall darling, mama

Feeling sick, got nobody
No, nobody, nobody
Nobody, nobody, no one, no one
Loopey loop, darling, darling

Getting serious, got to see the walls
Over there, nobody, got no one, nobody
Nobody, nobody, nobody
Nobody, nobody cares for me