What Do You Do (When Your Lover Leaves You) - the Tams
Now that we're in deep we may as well carry on that way. The consistently good and much underrated Tams from Atlanta, also cut all their records in Rick Hall's Fame Studios in Muscle Shoals, Georgia.
It starts off fairly ordinarily, with the delicate Joe South guitar and the Tams maundering "What do you do...?" questions like chanting monks then the gravelly voice of Charles Pope comes in bang on the minute mark:
....when she walks away
should I try to go on
should I try to be strong
should I try to forget
should I get on my knees
and beg her please please please please
or should I find someone new
tell me what to say
when she breaks your heart
when the teardrops fall
well I've got to know now
should I apologise
although I've done her no wrong
should I let her go home
somebody help me please.......
and he fades away, drowning in the well of his misery. The vocal epitome of despair.