If I Didn't Care

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If I Didn't Care

If I didn't care more than words can say
If I didn't care would I feel this way?
If this isn't love then why do I thrill?
And what makes my head go 'round and 'round
While my heart stands still?

If I didn't care would it be the same?
Would my ev'ry prayer begin and end with just your name?
And would I be sure that this is love beyond compare?
Would all this be true if I didn't care for you?

Monologue:

If I didn't care honey child,

mo' than words can say. If I didn't
care baby, would I feel this way?

Darlin' if this isn’t love, then why do I thrill so
much? What is it that makes my head go

'round and 'round while my heart just stands
still so much ?

If I didn't care would it be the same?
Would my ev'ry prayer begin and end with just your name?
And would I be sure that this is love beyond compare?
Would all this be true if I didn't care for you?

The Ink Spots

Charted at # 2 in 1939
Subsequent chartings by The Hilltopppers (1954, # 17);
Connie Francis (1959, #22); The Platters (1961, # 30);
and The Moments (1970, # 44)
Written by Jack Lawrence

Biography Brief

The Ink Spots played a large role in pioneering
the black vocal group-harmony genre, helping to
pave the way for the doo wop explosion of the '50s.

The quavering high tenor of
Bill Kenny presaged hundreds of street-corner
leads to come, and the sweet harmonies of Charlie
Fuqua, Deek Watson, and bass Hoppy Jones
(who died in 1944) backed him flawlessly.
Kenny's impeccable diction and Jones's deep drawl
were both prominent on the Ink Spots' first smash
on Decca in 1939, the sentimental "If I Didn't Care."
From then through 1951, the group was seldom absent
from the pop charts, topping the lists with
"We Three (My Echo, My Shadow, and Me)" (1940),
"I'm Making Believe" and "Into Each Life Some Rain
Must Fall" (both in 1944), and "The Gypsy" and
"To Each His Own" (both in 1946).

Charlie Fuqua died in 1970 at the age of 60.
Deek Watson passed away in November of 1969,
and Bill Kenny died in 1978.

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